An English Grammar eBook

James Witt Sewell
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 358 pages of information about An English Grammar.

An English Grammar eBook

James Witt Sewell
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 358 pages of information about An English Grammar.

Exercise.

Parse all the conjunctions in these sentences:—­

1.  When the gods come among men, they are not known.

2.  If he could solve the riddle, the Sphinx was slain.

3.  A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspended their deeds until the wayfarer had passed.

4.  The mountain of granite blooms into an eternal flower, with the lightness and delicate finish as well as the aerial proportions and perspective of vegetable scenery.

5.  At sea, or in the forest, or in the snow, he sleeps as warm, dines with as good an appetite, and associates as happily, as beside his own chimneys.

6.  Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

7.  “Doctor,” said his wife to Martin Luther, “how is it that whilst subject to papacy we prayed so often and with such fervor, whilst now we pray with the utmost coldness, and very seldom?”

8.  All the postulates of elfin annals,—­that the fairies do not like to be named; that their gifts are capricious and not to be trusted; and the like,—­I find them true in Concord, however they might be in Cornwall or Bretagne.

9.  He is the compend of time; he is also the correlative of nature.

10.  He dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his.

11.  The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray.

12.  It may be safely trusted, so it be faithfully imparted.

13.  He knows how to speak to his contemporaries.

14.  Goodness must have some edge to it,—­else it is none.

15.  I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last.

16.  Now you have the whip in your hand, won’t you lay on?

17.  I scowl as I dip my pen into the inkstand.

18.  I speak, therefore, of good novels only.

19.  Let her loose in the library as you do a fawn in a field.

20.  And whether consciously or not, you must be, in many a heart, enthroned.

21.  It is clear, however, the whole conditions are changed.

22.  I never rested until I had a copy of the book.

23.  For, though there may be little resemblance otherwise, in this they agree, that both were wayward.

24.  Still, she might have the family countenance; and Kate thought he looked with a suspicious scrutiny into her face as he inquired for the young don.

25.  He follows his genius whithersoever it may lead him.

26.  The manuscript indeed speaks of many more, whose names I omit, seeing that it behooves me to hasten.

27.  God had marked this woman’s sin with a scarlet letter, which had such efficacy that no human sympathy could reach her, save it were sinful like herself.

28.  I rejoice to stand here no longer, to be looked at as though I had seven heads and ten horns.

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