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ENGLISH GLAMMAR.
631. An infinitive or participle may be modified in all respects as the
verb in tbe predicate (630).
632. 1J.. modifying clause, if a dependent propos:tion, mny be modifleu
In both its subject aud predicate as other propositions.
633. All other modifying words may themselves be modifieu, as similal'
words al'e when modifYlIlg the subject (GLt).
634. Srl'cra) moJifications nre sometimes connected with the same
I'ledic·ltt:'.
EXERCISES.
In tile ful1owin?; sentences, name the subject anJ prcdicate-distinguish
thc grammlltical and the logical predicate-show in what way the grarumatie:t1
predicate is mouified in the logical.
According to some ancient philosophers, the sun quenches
his flames ill the ocean.-Sincerity and truth form the basis of
every \'irtuc.-The coach will leave the city in the morning at
Bunrise.-The Sp:ll'tan youth werc accustomed to go barefoot.
·-The atrocious crime of bein~ a youug man I shall attempt
neither to palliate nor deny.-'l'rustillg in God implies a belief
in him.-ll is pretence was, that the storm prevented his attend­
:mce.-His intention was to destroy the fleet.-Time flies rapidly.-I
confess that I am in fault.-'\Villiam h:103 determilled
tv ·go.-I "ish that he may succeed in his enterprise.-They
said, "Thou hast t:~"ed our lives."
[11 thp preceding exercises, show in which 2fntences, and by 'll'hat words'
the modifiers of the predicate are themselves modified-also, in which the
predicate h.'8 more than one modifier.
CO)lPOUND SENTENCES.
635. A COMPO!:!,;]' sentence consists of two or morc EimpJe sentences or
propositions (592) connected t"6'cthel'; as, "If time is monry, wasl ing it
must bc proJigality,'"
636. The propositions which make up a compounJ sentence are called
Ilumbers or clauses. III the preceding cVlDpounu sentence, the Illembers
nre, ,. Time is money," and, "wasting it must be prodigality."
.. Some gram!f1arians divh.le sentences into 3imple, complex, and compound. AcC'onliug
to 1lu..; di\"isJOIl ('llmplex sentelll'('.:' are those which have olle or mOle ofLheir mt'lIIher:o;
d"pendellt or subordinate; :1lld compound sentences arc those whose members are
nil hl-eUpendent or t:oordinate. The classification seems to be defective iuloO"lCal accu·
ruey inasmuch as every complex ~l'ntence is. ill one view atieast (646), al.~0 ~ompound
anu 13 of course inclucted under that head. The division in th~ text 13 believed to L~
more simple and accurate Ihan Ihe 11Irecfoid division here proposed.