799. Whatever, whatsoever, etc., sometimes follow the words that they modify; as, There is no doubt whatever. · Dickens.

EXERCISES

800. Change the transposed words to their natural posi tion, and explain the effect of the change:

1. A man, old and tired, came to the door. 2. Bright flashed his saber keen. 3. How beautiful is the rain! Longfellow. 4. Untremulous is the river clear. Lowell. 5. Great and manifold were the blessings, most dread Sovereign!

801. Transpose the italicized words, and explain the effect of the transposition:

1. The conflict was fierce. 2. We are happy to-night. 3. Diana of the Ephesians is great. 4. Pure were her thoughts, and true. 5. The doubtful empire of the night

is short.

RULES OF CONSTRUCTION

802. Rule 15. An adjective is used to modify a noun or a pronoun. (192, etc.)

803. Special Rule 12. An adjective is sometimes used absolutely, as the complement of a verbal. (198.)

Rule 12 and Special Rule 7 apply also to adjectives used as subordinate conjunctives. (248, 537, 748.)

804.

PARSING

FORMS OF PARSING.-WRITTEN PARSING

1. This bridge—what interesting associations cluster about it!

ORAL PARSING

This is a pronominal definitive adjective, in the singular number. It is used to modify bridge.

What is a definitive adjective. It is used to modify associations. Interesting is a participial descriptive adjective, in the positive degree. It is used to modify associations.

WRITTEN PARSING

2. The board was planed smooth. 3. He planed the board smooth.

Smooth is a descriptive adjective, in the positive degree. It is used in predication with board, to modify it.

Smooth is a descriptive adjective, in the positive degree. It is used

in predication with board, to modify it.

The first "smooth" is a s. p. a. (193); the second is an o. p. a. (200).

WRITTEN PARSING

4. Do we realize what labor it requires to become learned?

What is a conjunctive definitive adjective. It is used to modify labor. It is also used to introduce the clause what labor it requires, etc., join it to realize.

and

Learned is a participial descriptive adjective, in the positive degree. It is used absolutely as the complement of to become.

EXERCISE

805. Parse the adjectives in the following sentences :

1. Every natural action is graceful. 2. The twinkling stars shine above the wave-tossed and rock-bound coast.

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3. The Spanish troops captured twenty cannon at Seville. 4. Why call ye me good? 5. Why do you desire to call me good? 6. The great Chinese wall is twelve hundred and fifty miles long. 7. Many a one dies young.

8. Hearken, lords and ladies gay! 9. It is wrong to be deceitful. 10. Keep whatever company is of most benefit

to you.

ANALYSIS AND PARSING

806. Analyze the following sentences, and parse the nouns, pronouns, verbs, and adjectives in them:

I. The weather held fine. Howells. 2. He lived unknown. - Wordsworth. 3. I will not leave you comfortless. -John xiv. 18. 4. How beautiful they stand!— Mrs. Hemans. 5. They heard of my1 being ill. 6. Strive to become more

7. Do the locusts come

frugal and industrious 2 each year.
every 3 seventeen years? 8. It is wrong to be wrong.
9. I know not what course others may take. 10. Columbus
had no thought of becoming disheartened. II. What
strange chance has made him worthy of all this praise?
12. To be wise is more creditable than to be called wise.
13. Is the farm worth a thousand dollars?7 14. Forgive
every one his brother their trespasses. See Matt. xviii. 35.
15. Which route the French troops will take is unknown.
Whichever 10 way I turn,

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The same sad sights I see.

17. How bright and joyous is the brooklet's melody! how careless and happy the song it ever sings as its silvery waters dance along o'er its pebbly bed! 18. Six times his gossamery web the wary spider threw. - Barton. 19. Without,11 all are in misery 12; within, all are gay.

20. Long ago 13 people believed the earth to be flat, but there are several ways by which we know that its surface

is curved. Nat. Adv. Geography.

21.

Who has not dreamed a world of bliss

On a bright sunny morn like this! — Mrs. Howitt.

I. 474. 2. Supply more. 3. Every modifies seventeen years. 4. What must be supplied? 5. 193. 6. Thousand is a noun used as an adjective (n. adj.). As a noun, it is modified by a; as an adjective, it modifies dollars. Or, a thousand may be construed as an adjective. 7. 497. 8. 508, 2. 9. Say, it introduces the clause, which route the French troops will take. 10. 749. What verb does the clause modify? 11. Adv., mod, are. 12. Phrase used as a s. p. a. 13. 1031.

ERRORS TO BE CORRECTED

807. Correct the following errors. (One of the sentences is correct.)

I. Give me them books. 2. Take the smaller of the three. 3. The rose is the beautifulest flower. 4. Send me either one of the three. 5. These sort of persons 1 are not admired. 6. I like those kind of apples. 7. What kind of an apple is it? 8. What for a book have you? 9. There is another and better world. 10. Which is the largest, the II. I have a dull sort of a 4

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minuend or the subtrahend? headache. 12. Argus had an hundred eyes. 13. The one half of six is three. 14. This is more correct than that. 15. My friend W— is taller than any one of my acquaintances. 16. England had not such another king. 17. The four last parts of speech. 18. The nine first chapters of Proverbs. 19. The gravel snow covered long walk. 20. An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb.

1. Persons of this sort. 2. 759. 3. A German idiom (was für ein). 4. Omit sort of a.

NARRATIVES

808. The following directions will be of service in writing narratives:

1. State things in the order in which they occurred. 2. State important and interesting circumstances only. 3. Write as you would talk.

809. The following steps may be taken in writing a narrative:

I. The material may be collected, as follows:

GOING FISHING

November. Got everything ready. Fish with dip net. to a pole by bows. Fish are driven over it. makes it form a bowl. Fish can't get away. We soon reached the creek. with pole. I went down stream. Then went to other places.

Cool morning. Father asked my brother and me.

pleased.

Fastened

A square net.
Weight of water and fish

Began fishing. Frank went up stream
Soon told to stop. Sixteen fish.
Caught eighty-five. Home.

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2. The narrative may be written from the foregoing material, as follows:

GOING FISHING

One cool morning in November my father said to my brother and me," Boys, do you want to go fishing?" Of course we did; and after getting everything ready, we started for the creek, about half a mile away.

This morning we were to fish with a dip net. A dip net, as many of you know, is a square net. It is fastened to a long pole by four bows. It is put into the water and the fish are driven over it, and it is then raised. The weight of the water and the fish causes the net to take the shape of a bowl, and so the fish cannot swim off.