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SYNTAX-A.NA.LYSIS. 133
Time flies.-The summer is past.-The fields are covered
with grain.-Great is trutb.-Coll4llbus discovered America.­
America was discovered by Columbus.-A free press is the
beginning of a free government.-All governments should be
founded on love.-It is religion that gives liberty to the world.
62S.-U. The predicate, like the subject, is either simple 01' compound
(611).
626. A simple predicate ascribes to its subject but one attribute; a8,
" Life is short."-" Time jlif8."
627. A compound predicate consists of two or nlorc simple predicates
affirmed of one subject; as, "Cresar camc, and saw, amI c01l(Jlured."=
" Truth i8 great ami will prevail."
EXERCISES.
In the following sentences, name the subject and predicate. Stato
whether the predicate 13 8imple 01' compound. Distinguish the grammati·
cal and logical:-
1\Ian is mortal.-Wisdom is the principui thing.-God is
good and merciful.--Honesty is praised and neglected.-The
heart is the best and the worst part of man.-The use of travel
is to widen the sphere of observation, and to euable us to examine
and judge of things for ourselves.-Avurice is a mean
and cowardly vice.-Talent is strength and subtility of mind.
-Genius is mental inspiration and delicacy of feeling.-Talent
is the lion and the serpent-genius is the eagle and the dove.
MODIFICATIONS OF THE PREDICATE.
628. A grammatical predicate may be modified 01' limited in different
ways.
629. When the attribute (601) in the gl':lmmaticni predicute is a nuun,
it is modified-
1. By II noun or pl'onoun, limiting or describing the attriuute; as, "He
is John the Baptist."-" He is my friend."-h lIe is my father's
friend."
o By an adjective or participle, limiting the attribute; as," Solomon
was a wise king."-" It is a bird &il1ging."
630. When the grammatical predicate is an nltrilJUtivc velb (604), it is
modified-
1. By a noun or pronoun in the objective case, as the object of the at·
tributive verb i as, .. John reads Homer,"-" I have heard him."
2. By an adverb i as, I, John reads well,"
3. By an adjullct (641); as, "They live in London."
4. By an infinitive; as, "Boys love to play."
5. By a dependent clause; ae, "Plato tuught that Ihe SOld is immorta.l."