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SYNTAX-ANALYSIS. 137
embark thither.-That is best which is most rationnl.-When
I was a child, I thought as a child; but "hen I became a man
I put away childish things.-I will come again and receive you
to myself, that where I am there ye may be also.
In the following sentences, what connecting words nre omitted!
Pay me that thou owest.-It is said he can not pay his debts.
-There is no doubt he is a man of integrity.-I am sure we
can never accolllpli8h this without assistunce.-That is all you
Imow.-All you can find is yours.-Could we have foreseen
this difficulty, "\\"e might have avoided it.-I soon perceived I
had still the power of motion.-The author dreads the critic;
the miser, the thief; and the criminal, the judge.
ABRIDGED rROPOSITIONS.
648. A c"OII"'UlHl sentencE' may sometimes be converted into a simple
Ol1e, by abridging its d('pendent elause.
649. A depcudent clame is frequently Gbridged by omit ling the con·
Ileeling word, and changing the verh of the predicate into a participle or
iufiuitive.
650. 'fhe pa,·tieiplc in the abridged clause will then stand either with
its 8uhstantive in the case absolute (769), or ae a modifier of the leadill~
subject. Thus. Absolule-" When the boys have finished their les50"",
we will play;" abridged, "The boys having finished their lessons. we will
play," As a modifier-" Wben we have finished our lessu113 we will play;"
abridged, .. Hnvi11g finished our lessons we will play." Passively and
absolulely-" \\'I,ell our work is fiuiBhcd we will play;" abridged, '" Our
work being filiifhed, we will play."
651. When the attribute, in the depelldent clause, consists of a noun
0'" pronoun in the liomiuative case after the verb as a copula. it remains
ill th2 same case in the abridged form; thus, II That he is a judge i3 of no
c"llscqucnce; nbritlge:l," His being ajud,qe is of no cOllsequellce."-" I wns
"ot aware that he was a judge ,-" abridged, "I was not aware of his beiug
njudge" (799).
652. The difference Letween these two modes of expression is thi, : In
ti,e full form, the idea contained in the dependent clause is affirmed,- in
the abritlged form, it is assumed.
653. When the dependent clauoe is the object of the verb in the leadi11g
clauoe, it may often he chanl!:ed for the infinitive with a subject; as,
.. I know tbat be is a scholar;" abridged, " I know hill! to be a scholar."
654. When, in such cases, the suluect of the dependent clause is the
s"me as tbe suldect of tbe principal, it is omitted III the aLridged form;
u., II I wished that I might go ,-" abridged, I wished 10 go."
655. When the subject of thE!' uepen(\ent clause, connected by what,
U,llld, whom, where, when, !tow, and the like, and relating to something yet
futur~, is the same as that of tbe independent one, it is sOjlletimeR