5. To check this plague, the skilful farmer chaff And blazing straw before his orchard burns Gradual sinks the breeze 6. The clouds consign their treasures to the fields 8. Thus all day long the full-distended clouds Indulge their genial stores 9. With vision pure, into these secret stores LINE 10. The first fresh dawn then waked the gladdened race The passions all 13. Have burst their bounds, and reason half extinct Or impotent, or else approving, sees 14. Desponding fear, of feeble fancies full, Weak and unmanly, loosens every power 1. In ancient times, the sacred plough employed The kings and awful fathers of mankind (lines 58-59). 2. From the moist meadow to the withered hill, Led by the breeze, the vivid verdure runs (lines 87-88). 1. From the moist meadow to the withered hill Adv. phrase of 4. 3. To check this plague, the skilful farmer chaff And blazing straw before his orchard burns (lines 4. By Thee the various vegetative tribes, Wrapt in a filmy net, and clad with leaves, Draw the live ether (lines 561-563). 7. Draw 8. The live 9. Ether 5. And often, from the careless back Of herds and flocks, a thousand tugging bills 1. A compound sentence consists of two or more simple sentences or propositions connected together. and " 2. The propositions which make up a compound sentence are sometimes termed members or clauses. Thus: "As we were walking together, we met a stranger," is a compound sentence, the simple sentences of which it is composed being, "We met a stranger,” we were walking together." These two sentences or clauses are connected by the word as. 3. When the clauses of a compound sentence are so combined that all are equally independent, the separate clauses are said to hold a co-ordinate relation to each other, and the clauses thus united form a compound co-ordinate sentence. Ex. The moon shines, and the stars twinkle. Here the two clauses or simple sentences which unite to form the compound sentence are mutually independent or similar in rank; hence they are called co-ordinate. 4. When one of the clauses of a compound sentence is dependent upon another, it is said to be subordi nate. 66 Ex. We shall go when the carriage comes. Here the sentence "When the carriage comes depends upon we shall go;" it is therefore called a subordinate sentence, because it depends upon another sentence, which, in reference to it, is called principal. CO-ORDINATE CLAUSES OR SENTENCES. 1. Co-ordinate clauses or sentences are divided into four classes, namely, copulative, alternative, adversative, and illative. The kind of sentence depends upon the connective used. 2. A copulative clause or sentence is one that is so united to another as to express an additional thought, and thereby to give a greater extent to its meaning. Ex. Give me a book, and I will give you a slate. The connectives of copulative sentences are the following:—and, with the correlatives, both . . . and; as well... as; not only but; but also, but likewise, moreover, nor, neither, as well as, &c. ... 3. Alternative clauses are such as offer or deny a choice between two statements. |