ANALYSIS OF SENTENCES Classify the following sentences: Lavish nature paints the purple year. We piled with care our nightly stack Years, following years, steal something every day. What is the modified subject of the first sentence? What is the modified predicate? What is the chief word of the subject? By what modified? What is the predicate? By what word is it completed? By what is this complement modified? What is the subject of the second sentence? the modified predicate? the predicate? How is it completed? By what is this complement modified? Of what does the modifying phrase consist? What is the subject of the third sentence? the modified predicate? the predicate? By what is it completed? By what is this complement modified? By what is the predicate modified? Of what does each modifying phrase consist? Point out and classify all elements in the fourth sentence, and tell how each is used. Divide each clause of the fifth sentence into its elements, and tell how each is used. Divide each member of the sixth sentence into its ele ments. Dividing a sentence into its parts, and showing their relation, one to another, is called analysis. The analysis of a sentence should always be preceded by its classification. ANALYSIS OF SIMPLE SENTENCES Model.-Now, flaming up the heavens, the potent sun Melts into limpid light the high-raised clouds. This is a simple declarative sentence. The potent sun, flaming up the heavens, is the modified subject; now melts into limpid light the high-raised clouds, is the modified predicate. The noun sun is the subject. Sun is modified by the adjectives the and potent, and by the participial phrase flaming up the heavens, of which the participle flaming is the base, modified by the prepositional phrase up the heavens, of which the noun heavens is the base, modified by the adjective the, and joined to flaming by the preposition up. The verb melts is the predicate. Melts is modified by the adverb now, and by the prepositional phrase into limpid light, of which the noun light is the base, modified by the adjective limpid, and joined to melts by the preposition into. The predicate melts is completed by the object complement clouds modified by the adjectives the and high-raised. The analysis of a simple sentence should proceed by the following steps: Division of the sentence into its two main parts, modified subject and modified predicate; Pointing out the subject; Pointing out the modifiers of the subject; Pointing out the predicate; Pointing out the modifiers and complements of the predicate. FORMS FOR ANALYSIS On the following pages is submitted a form of analysis, a careful study of which will enable a pupil to analyze any sentence. line. Place the subject and the predicate in the same vertical Place all modifiers beneath and a little to the right of the word which they modify. Modifiers of unequal rank should be placed in the scheme for analysis in the order of their strength. Write only the first and the last word of clause modifiers with a dotted line between, thus ( .... .), and place the subject and the predicate of the clause below the dotted line. If the simple predicate is made up of a verb and an attribute, underline the attribute. Place conjunctions between and a little to the left of the words, phrases, or clauses which they connect. Underline the base of all phrase modifiers. Appositives should be written after the word they modify and enclosed with parentheses, thus (......................) The following key must be used in connection with the above directions. Modifiers of the subject not indicated as above will be considered as simple adjectives, and those of the predicate as adverbial, |