In (2), to find shows the result of the return; not to take pity is equivalent to that it would not take pity.

In (3), to part means because I part, etc.; and to betray and to bring express the reason, equivalent to that you betray, etc.

In (4), to serve and to talk are equivalent to [as much gold] as will serve us; and “too sad to talk” also shows degree.

In (5), to hear means if you should hear, and to say is equivalent to if we say,—­both expressing condition.

363.  V. The independent use, which is of two kinds,—­

(1) Thrown loosely into the sentence; as in Sec. 355, (3).

(2) Exclamatory: “I a philosopher!  I advance pretensions;” “’He to die!’ resumed the bishop.” (See also Sec. 268, 4.)

OUTLINE OF ANALYSIS.

364.  In analyzing simple sentences, give—­

(1) The predicate.  If it is an incomplete verb, give the complement (Secs. 344 and 350) and its modifiers (Sec. 351).

(2) The object of the verb (Sec. 349).

(3) Modifiers of the object (Sec. 351).

(4) Modifiers of the predicate (Sec. 352).

(5) The subject (Sec. 347).

(6) Modifiers of the subject (Sec. 351).

(7) Independent elements (Sec. 355).

This is not the same order that the parts of the sentence usually have; but it is believed that the student will proceed more easily by finding the predicate with its modifiers, object, etc., and then finding the subject by placing the question who or what before it.

Exercise in Analyzing Simple Sentences.

Analyze the following according to the directions given:—­

1.  Our life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.

2.  I will try to keep the balance true.

3.  The questions of Whence?  What? and Whither? and the solution of these, must be in a life, not in a book.

4.  The ward meetings on election days are not softened by any misgiving of the value of these ballotings.

5.  Our English Bible is a wonderful specimen of the strength and music of the English language.

6.  Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.

7.  To be hurried away by every event, is to have no political system at all.

8.  This mysticism the ancients called ecstasy,—­a getting-out of their bodies to think.

9.  He risked everything, and spared nothing, neither ammunition, nor money, nor troops, nor generals, nor himself.

10.  We are always in peril, always in a bad plight, just on the edge of destruction, and only to be saved by invention and courage.