Exercise 211.

In Exercises 118 and 119 pick out the Adjective Clauses and say what each Clause modifies.

Read again par. 234 and work again Exercise 120.

Exercise 212.

Pick out the Adjective Clauses in Exercise 120 and say what each modifies.

510. Adjective Clauses may also be introduced by most of the Conjunctive Adverbs (see pars. 416, 417); as,

This is the factory where my brother works (where
It shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

=

in which).

The prisoner was sent back to the place whence he came.
This was the reason why I came.

That was the day when I first saw you.

Exercise 213.

Pick our the Adjective Clauses and say what each modifies.

I remember the house where I was born. I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows. The reason why he came is not known. The place whither you are traveling is far away. Look to the rock whence ye are

hewn. What is the cause wherefore ye are come?

511. Analysis of Sentences containing Adjective Clauses.'
(a) Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle
Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime?

Complex interrogative sentence.

know the land (Object)

where (Conj. Adv., modifying are)

the cypress and myrtle are emblems of deeds (Complex2 Clause Adjunct of Object land)

that are done in their clime (Clause Adjunct of deeds)

1 Models of diagrams of Complex Sentences are given in par. 550.

2 Complex because it has a Clause within itself.

(b) The long-remembered beggar was his guest
Whose beard descending swept his aged breast.

Complex declarative sentence.

Subject:

the long-remembered beggar

whose beard descending swept his aged breast (Clause Adjunct of beggar)

Predicate was his guest (Attribute)

Exercise 214.

Analyze the following sentences.—

.

He is rich enough that wants nothing.

The flame that lit the battle's wreck
Shone round him o'er the dead.

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free.

The thirst that from the soul doth rise

Doth ask a drink divine.

Call that holy ground

Which first their brave feet trod.

Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just.

The roses soon withered that hung o'er the wave.

By ceaseless action all that is subsists.

Within the hollow crown

That rounds the mortal temples of a king

Keeps death his court.

Nature never did betray

The heart that loved her.

The moon, that once was round and full,
Is now a silver boat.

All I hear

Is the north-wind drear.

It is the hour when from the boughs
The nightingale's high note is heard.

The spirits I have raised abandon me.

A Turkey carpet was the lawn

Whereon he loved to bound.

With half a harvest.

[But oh!] of all delightful sounds

Of evening or of morn

The sweetest is the voice of love

That welcomes his return.

[And] ever like base cowards who leave their ranks

In danger's hour before the rush of steel,

Drifted away, disorderly, the planks

From underneath her2 keel.

ADVERBIAL CLAUSES.

512. The work of an Adverb may be done by an Adverbial Clause, thus:

513. An Adverbial Clause, like an Adverb, modifies a Verb, an Adjective, or an Adverb.

In the examples just given the Adverbial Clause of Time modifies the Verb will come; the Adverbial Clause of Place and that of Purpose modify the Verb go; the Adverbial Clause of Manner modifies the Verb came; the Adverbial Clause of Degree modifies the Adjective stronger. In the sentence "I am so tired that I can go no farther," the Adverbial Clause modifies the Adverb so.

Read again par. 440.

Exercise 215.

Pick out the Adverbial Clauses of Time and say what each modifies.

My cousin called while I was out. She stayed till I came back. We saw some beautiful pictures when we were in London. The boy has worked hard since he was promoted. We shall be pleased to see you whenever you arrive. The train had gone before the boy reached the station. The little girl was tired after she had walked a mile. Make hay while the sun shines. He had a fever when he was in Spain. Green was the corn as I rode on my way.

Before the bright sun rises over the hill

In the cornfield poor Mary is seen.

The king himself has followed her

When she has walked before.

Life has passed

With me but roughly since I saw thee last.

[And] the heavy night hung dark

The hills and waters o'er,

When a band of exiles moored their bark

On the wild New England shore.

Could you make it whole by crying
Till your eyes and nose are red?

[But] I lost my sweet little doll, [dears,]
As I played on the heath one day.

Daily near my table steal

While I pick my scanty meal.

Three wives sat up in the lighthouse tower
And trimmed the lamps as the sun went down.
Let us haste away

...

Ere yet yon sea the bark devours.

[And] Death, whenever he comes to me,
Shall come on the wild unbounded sea.

Exercise 216.

Pick out the Adverbial Clauses of Place and say what each modifies.

The man has returned whence he came. Go whither I sent you. Go where glory waits thee. The servant must go wherever he is told. Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Where thou dwellest I will dwell. Where the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. Where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise. Where once we dwelt our name is heard no Wherever I went was my poor dog Tray.

more.

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

Exercise 217.

Pick out the Adverbial Clauses of Manner and say what each modifies.

As heroes think, so thought the Bruce. As the waterbrooks, so panteth my soul after Thee. as he thinks. As the tree falls, so must it lie. he die.

the hart panteth after An honest man speaks As a man lives so must

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

Let the world go how it will.

Not as the conqueror comes

They, the true-hearted, came.

My muse doth not delight

Me as she did before;

My hand and pen are not in plight
As they have been of yore.1

1 Two complex sentences; analyze them separately.