Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ... 11. An adverb modifying a predicate adjective. 12. Modifying a passive verb. 13. Another adverb. 14. Modifying a phrase. 15. A proposition. False Syntax. 1. The girl could not spin, but desired to be taught very much. 2. I was to Boston last week. 3. Who is there in whom I can rely? 4. Kid yourself from such bad habite. 5. The tax on tea was nothing else but robbery. 6. Few cities are as grand as Paris. 7. He cannot either read nor write. 8. The oath was administered to such persons that were elected. 9. We speak that we do know. 10. A dangerous cow tossed several persons, and also plunged and tossed about the street in a formidable manner. Newspaper. EXEECISE XXYII. When it was winter and the snow lay all around, white and sparkling, a hare would often come jumping along and spring right over the little fir-tree. Oh! this made him so angry. But two winters went by, and when the third came; the little tree had grown so tall that the hare was obliged to run round it. Msop. Analysis. 1. State the number of sentences in the Exercise. 2. Give the last word with which each proposition ends. 3. How many propositions in all? 4. How many clauses f 5. Give the principal proposition of the first period. 6. Give the simple subject of this proposition. 7. Give the entire predicate. 8. Name the co-ordinate connective in the first sentence. 9. Name the subordinate connective. 10. Classify the last sentence. 11. Give its co-ordinate propositions. 12. Give its subordinate propositions. 13. Give the co-ordinate connective. 14. What propositions does it join? 15. Give the subordinate connectives. 16-17. What does each joinl 18. What is the syntactical office of " buff 19. Select from the Exercise an adverbial phrane. 20. What does it modify? 21....
