God, and eschewed evil.”—­Job, i, 1.  No additional words will make this clause any plainer, and none are really necessary to the construction; yet some grammarians will parse it with the following impletions, or more:  “And that man was a perfect man, and he was an upright man, and he was one man that feared God, and that eschewed evil things.”  It is easy to see how this liberty of interpretation, or of interpolation, will change simple sentences to compound sentences, as well as alter the nature and relation of many particular words; and at the same time, it takes away totally those peculiarities of construction by which Dr. Adam and others would recognize a sentence as being compound.  What then? are there not two kinds of sentences?  Yes, truly; but these authors are wrong in their notions and definitions of both.  Joint nominatives or joint verbs may occur in either; but they belong primarily to some simple sentences, and only for that reason are found in any that are compound.  A sentence, too, may possibly be made compound, when a simple one would express the whole meaning as well or better; as, “And [David] smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer.”—­2 Sam., v, 25.  Here, if we omit the words in Italics, the sentence will become simple, not elliptical.

THE ANALYZING OF SENTENCES.

To analyze a sentence, is, to resolve it into some species of constituent parts, but most properly into words, its first significant elements, and to point out their several relations and powers in the given connexion.

The component parts of a sentence are members, clauses, phrases, or words.  Some sentences, which are short and simple, can only be divided into their words; others, which are long and complex, may be resolved into parts again and again divisible.

Of analysis applicable to sentences, there are several different methods; and, so far as their difference may compatibly aid the application of different principles of the science of grammar, there may be an advantage in the occasional use of each.

FIRST METHOD OF ANALYSIS.

Sentences not simple may be reduced to their constituent members, clauses, or simple sentences; and the means by which these are united, may be shown.  Thus:—­

EXAMPLE ANALYZED.

“Even the Atheist, who tells us that the universe is self-existent and indestructible—­even he, who, instead of seeing the traces of a manifold wisdom in its manifold varieties, sees nothing in them all but the exquisite structures and the lofty dimensions of materialism—­even he, who would despoil creation of its God, cannot look upon its golden suns, and their accompanying systems, without the solemn impression of a magnificence that fixes and overpowers him.”—­DR. CHALMERS, Discourses on Revelation and Astronomy, p. 231.