alytical practical grammar - Toronto Public Library

SYNTAX-ANALYSIS.
He who is first to condemn, will often be the last to forgive.
True religion give;; order and beauty to the world, and, after
life, a better existence.
A little philosophy carries us away from truth, while a great.
er brings us back to it again.
. What we know is nothing, but what we are ignoral'lt of is
Immense.
Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even
so to them.
1\1any men have been obscure in their origin and birth, but
great aud glorious in life and death.
To hear patiently, and to answer precisely, are the great per·
fection~ of conversation.
Books which save the trouble of thinking, and inventions
which sa\'e the labor of working, are in universal demand.
Solon Gompared the people to the sea, and orators and coun·
sellors to the winds; for (he said) that the sea would be calm
and quiet if the winds did not trouble it.
Sume cultivate philosophy in theory, who are imperfect phi.
losophers in practice j as others anvocate religion, who are
nevertheless indifferently religious.
II. COKSTRCCTION OF SENTENCES.
660. \V ORDS are arranged in sentences, according to
certain rules, called the Rules of Syntax (662 and 666).
661. GENERAL l'R1NCll'LEB.
1. In every sentence there must be a verb and its nominative (01' subject),
expressed 01' understood.
2. Every article, aojectiyc, adjective pn'noun, 01' participle, mu,t have
a substantive (IO(). expreEsed or undel'>tood.
3. Every nominative or subjed has its own verb, expressed or undel"
stood.
4. Every finite verb (that is, every verb not in the infiuitive or partici.
pIes) has its own nominative, expressed or understood.
5. Every possessive case is governed by n noun or substantive whose
signification it sel'ves to limit.
6. Every objective case is governed by a transitive verb in the active