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ADVERBIAL CLAUSES AND EXPRESSIONS.

SUBJECT.

PREDICATE.

My eyes

are dim with - childish - tears.

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Let loose their carols when they - please,

Are quiet when - they - will. are pressed by - heavy-laws, wear a face of joy because We-have-been-glad-of-yore.

Now beneath-the-starry sky Couch

Ply the pleasant labour, ply, while-they-sleep

Runs with-speed-more-smoothand - fine,

Gathering up a trustier line.

falls on-castle-walls

And-snowy - summits - old - in

story.

shakes across-the-lakes, leaps in-glory.

die in-yon-rich - sky,

faint on-hill,-or-field,-or-river;

roll from - soul - to - soul,

And grow for - ever - and -for

ever.

grew around it, and reflected themselves on-its- surface-ason-a-polished - mirror.

wriggled away (1) in-the- mud, (2) out-of-hearing.

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The passages that now follow are first put in a skeleton form, with the subject marked.

Next, in three columns, with the subjects and predicates of all the sentences, principal or subordinate, marked, and with each part of speech also ticketed.

Next, they are laid out in a map, all the parts in their original order, but with every clause shown, and its place in the construction of the sentence indicated.

Then follows the passage printed. The learner should be required to learn and tabulate it afresh for himself.

And then a short new bit for original practice.
In the map every subject and predicate is shown by a hori-
If the subject comes first in order

zontal line

the ends of the line are turned down; thus,

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