alytical practical grammar - Toronto Public Library

"YNTAS-ANAI.Y~T"·
EXERCISES.
I. In the following, point ullt which are sentence.~, and why-which are
phrases, and why.
2. In the sentences, what is the subject, and why /-What is the predi.
cate, nnd why. Also which predi~at", al'e made by copulati!" verbs, and
which, by attributives. In buth, what is the attribute?
Snow is white.-Ice is cold.-Birds fly.-RosCB blossom­
The tree is tall.-'l'he fields are green.-Grass grows.-To say
nothing.-l\Ian is mortal.-God is immortal.-Home is sweet.
-Sweet is home.-'Who i~ Paul ?-Has he come?-'Will
James go ?-Are you tired ?-At all events.-To be sure.
3. :\Iake sentences of wbich one of the following words shall be the subject,
i. e. affil'm something respeeting each of them.
Trees, birds, horses, a sparrow, the stone, the thunder, the
wind, the clouds, time, he.
4. Analyze each of the sentences thus made, as directed above, No.2.
THE ~UBJECT.
607. 1. The subject of a proposition is either graml/1atical 01' logical.
608. The 9n"'!II1"I;('''/ subject is the person (.1' thing spoken of, unlim
ited hy olher words j as, "Knoll'led!Je is power."
609. The logical subject is the person or thing spoken of, together with
all the words or phraec" by which it is limited or defined: thus.
I n the sentence, "Every man at bis best state is vani ty," the grammati·
~:ll subject is "man j" tbe logical is, "Enery man at his best state."
610. Wben the gralllmatical ~ub.iect hns no limiting wor,ls connected
with it, then the grammatical and the logical eubject arc th" oame j II",
1\ (;C)ll is good."
611. II. The subject of a proposition is eitber simple or compound.
612 A simple subject consists of one subject of thought (f,\l6) j a~,
" Time is money."
613. A compound subject consists of two or more simple subjects, to
which belongs but one predicate j as, "James and John are brothers."­
"You and I are friends."-" Two and three are five."-" Time and tide wait
for no man.'''''
• The .... ulIJcl't is here considered :1'" compoulld, v.hether the predicate can be affir~ed
of each simple sullJect or not. Thu:-:, we can say, "Time waits for no man, and tide
Wall" (or no man;" but we can not say, "'fwo nre five, A.11l11hree arc five." . Still the
pr~cedjllg examples-" Time and tid,..," and •• two and thru"-are equally confilllered as
Gompound subjecIs, because Ihey consist each of more than one sU['J"ct.
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