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CONTAINING

A BRIEF COURSE OF SYNTAX,

TOGETHER WITH

Selections of Prose and Poetry

FOR ANALYSIS AND PARSING.

BY

ALLEN H. WELD, A. M.,

AUTHOR OF LATIN LESSONS AND READER, AND AN ENGLISH GRAMMAR.

REVISED AND ADAPTED TO THE LATEST EDITION OF WELD'S
PROGRESSIVE GRAMMAR.

PORTLAND:

PUBLISHED BY SANBORN & CARTER,

EXCHANGE STREET.

1860.

KC 10891

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by O. L. SANBORN, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Maine.

Grammatical Subject.

The Grammatical Subject
of a sentence may be a noun
or pronoun; a verb in the
infinitive; a clause; or the
name of any sign or letter of
which anything can be af-
firmed.

SYNOPSIS OF GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS.

Modifiers of the Gram. Subject. The Subject may be modified by a noun in apposition; an adjective; a preposition with its object (adjunct); a participle; a verb in the infinitive; a clause; and sometimes an adverb.

The subject, modified by one or more words, is called the LOGICAL SUBJECT.

Grammatical Predicate.

The Grammatical Predicate of a sentence must be a verb.

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Modifiers of the Gram. Predicate.

The Grammatical Predicate may
be modified by a noun in the objec-
tive case (if the verb is transitive);
a verb in the infinitive; an adverb;
a preposition with its object (ad-
junct); a clause; an adjective; a
phrase; and a quoted sentence.

The predicate, modified by one or more words, is called the LOGICAL PREDICATE.

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PREFACE.

THE selections which compose the body of the following work are so arranged as to constitute a gradual course of Exercises in Analyzing and Parsing.

The Rules of Syntax are taken from WELD'S ENGLISH GRAMMAR by permission of the Publishers, and to these rules references are occasionally made, to assist the learner in explaining idiomatic or difficult passages.

As the extracts are from some of the most accomplished and approved writers, the Ornaments of style, Figures of Rhetoric, and Scanning, may be profitably attended to by advanced classes.

The book may be used by learners in almost any stage of attainment after the elementary principles of Grammar are understood. The work is designed to take the place of Pope's Essay, Thomson's Seasons, Young's Night Thoughts, and other entire poems, which are used as parsing books in Schools. A variety in the selections, it is believed, will be more profitable and interesting to the learner than any single work can be, which exhibits no gradation in style, and the peculiarities of one writer only. A. H. W.

This Parsing Book has been revised by the Editor of Weld's Grammar, and in its preliminary system of analysis and course of syntax made to conform to the latest edition of the work just referred to. For the sake of greater variety, a number of new extracts have been introduced.

PARSING BOOK.

CHAPTER I.

ANALYSIS OF SENTENCES.

By the Analysis of Sentences is meant the process of resolving them into the parts of which they are composed.

The parts into which a sentence is analyzed, are called its Elements.

CLASSIFICATION OF SENTENCES.

There are four kinds of sentences; Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative, and Exclamatory.

A Declarative Sentence is one in which something is declared; as, "The sun shines."

An Interrogative Sentence is one in which a question is asked; as, "Does the sun shine?"

An Imperative Sentence is one that is used in commanding, entreating, or permitting; as, "Let the sun shine."

An Exclamatory Sentence is one used in exclaiming; as, "How pleasantly the sun shines!".

SUBJECT AND PREDICATE.

The Subject of a sentence is that about which something is said or written.

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