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Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Be silent, that you may hear.

Awake your senses, that you may the better judge.
The mountain is so high that you cannot see the top of it.
The king was such a tyrant that his subjects rebelled.
Your letter is such a scrawl that I cannot read it.

Laziness travels so slowly that Poverty soon overtakes him.
I will come if you wish it.

Except ye repent, ye shall likewise perish.

Though he slay me, yet will I trust him.

Before the bright sun rises over the hill
In the cornfield poor Mary is seen.

Life has passed

With me but roughly since I saw thee last.

Could you make it whole by crying

Till your eyes and nose are red?

Daily near my table steal

While I pick my scanty meal.

There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose,
The village preacher's modest mansion rose.

As a man lives, so must he die.

As the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
So honor peereth in the meanest habit.

Had she lived a twelvemonth more,
She had not died to-day.

The teardrop who can blame,
Though it dim the warrior's aim ?

One impulse from a vernal wood

May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.

Next morning as I passed,
I found her lying dead.

Shut your eyes, for now the day
And the light are gone away.

Could I but see a traitor,

How bravely I should fight.

So faint I am, these tottering feet

No more my palsied frame can bear.

In the blue air no smoky cloud

Hung over wood and lea,

When the old church with the fretted tower

Had a hamlet round its knee.

As through the drifting snow she pressed,

The babe was sleeping on her breast.

We walked along, while bright and red
Uprose the morning sun.

She was a phantom of delight,

When first she gleamed upon my sight.

518. Examine a Subordinate Clause well before making up your mind what to call it. The same Clause may do different work in different sentences; thus:

I know when he arrived.

I know the hour when he arrived.

I was out when he arrived.

"When he arrived" is in the first sentence Object to know, and therefore a Noun Clause; in the second sentence it modifies the Noun hour, and is therefore an Adjective Clause; in the third sentence it modifies the Verb was, and is therefore an Adverbial Clause.

Exercise 224.

Say of what kind each Subordinate Clause is.

Do you know where he lives? I live where he lives. I live in the village where he lives.

I cannot tell how he can write. He writes how he can.

As the bell tinkleth so the fool thinketh. I reached the door as the bells were ringing.

sleep.

As the bells were ringing, the children could not

I bless the day when I first saw you. I remember when I first saw you. My sister was abroad when I first saw you.

I see whom you are expecting. I see the person whom you are expecting.

We asked whence he came. Oxford is the city whence he came. He must return whence he came.

This is the hour when all are asleep. The thief comes when all are asleep. Do you know when all are asleep?

I know where roses grow. This is the garden where roses grow. Bees hum where roses grow.

CLASSIFICATION OF ELEMENTS.

519. We are able now to complete the classification of elements begun in par. 456.

I. Word elements may be

(a) the Subject,

(b) the Object,

(c) the Attribute,

(d) the Verb (always regarded as a word element),

(e) an Adjective modifier, including

Adjectives,

Participles,

Nouns or Pronouns in Apposition,

Nouns or Pronouns in the Possessive Case,

(f) an Adverbial modifier,

(g) a Connective element (Conjunctions),

(h) an Independent element (as Interjections).

II Phrase elements may be

(a) Subject (an Infinitive),

(b) Object (an Infinitive),

(c) Attribute (an Infinitive or a Prepositional Phrase), (d) an Adjective modifier ) (An Infinitive or a Prepo(e) an Adverbial modifier

III. Clause elements may be

(a) Subject,

(b) Object,

(c) Attribute,

sitional Phrase).

(d) Adjective modifier, being either

a Relative Clause,

a Clause introduced by a Conjunctive Adverb, or a Clause in Apposition,

(e) Adverbial modifier (introduced by a Conjunctive Adverb or by a Subordinating Conjunction),

(f) Object of a Preposition.

520. From an examination of the above table, it is seen that the Subject, the Object, the Attribute, an Adjective modifier, and an Adverbial modifier may each be either a word element, a phrase element, or a clause element.

Exercise 225.

Bring in original sentences illustrating each of the kinds of elements mentioned in the table in par. 519.

Miscellaneous Complex Sentences for Analysis,
While leanest beasts in pastures feed,

The fattest ox the first must bleed.

He that loseth his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. My advice is that you endeavor to be honestly rich or contentedly poor.

The most convenient habit you can acquire is that of letting your habits sit loose upon you.

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders generally discover everybody's face but their own.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

The vile strength he wields

For earth's destruction, thou dost all despise.

Trifles discover the character more than actions of importance.

Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

This is the cat that caught the rat that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built.

It is not growing like a tree

In bulk doth make man better be.

Though good things answer many good intents,
Crosses do still bring forth the best events.

When the infant begins to walk, it thinks it lives in strange times.

This morning, like the spirit of a youth

That means to be of note, begins betimes.

The men

Whom nature's work can charm, with God himself

Hold converse.

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

It was the winter wild

When the heaven-born Child

All meanly wrapp'd in the rude manger lies.

I knew 'twas I, for many do call me fool.

The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness,
And time to speak it in.

Soon as the evening shades prevail
The moon takes up the wondrous tale.

Lowliness is young ambition's ladder
Whereto the climber upwards turns his face.

To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.

Laziness travels so slowly that Poverty soon overtakes him.

I stood on the bridge at midnight,

As the clocks were striking the hour.

The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but him had fled.

A time there was, ere England's griefs began,
When every rood of ground maintained its man.

That which is a competency for one man is not enough for another.

They that govern most make least noise.

He who ascends to mountain-tops shall find

The loftiest peaks most wrapped in clouds and snow.

Had I but died an hour before this chance

I had lived a blessed time.

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