By any other name would smell as sweet. 8. She sang the song sweetly. 9. The thought of what he had done filled us with horror. 10. The moon is down, and she goes down at twelve. II. These deeds must not be thought After these ways; so, it will make us mad. 12. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash the blood Clean from my hand? 13. The sun's rim dips, the stars rush out, At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper o'er the sea Off shot the specter bark. 14. Happily he did not die. 15. He did not die happy. 16. His having been beaten once only made him the more determined to succeed. 17. He leadeth me beside the still waters. 18. The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart: he never felt The witchery of the soft blue sky. 19. Few could know when Lucy ceased to be. 20. We wear a face of joy because We have been glad of yore. 21. Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Strike God, and your native land! 23. None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise. 24. The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. 251. Construct: EXERCISE B I. Five sentences, each containing two noun complements. 2. Five sentences, each containing a noun and an adjective . complement. 3. Five sentences, each containing a noun and a phrase complement. 4. Five sentences in which words, ordinarily adverbs, are used as complements. 5. Five sentences containing clause complements. 6. Five sentences in which infinitives are used as complements. 7. Five sentences containing participles as complements. 8. Sentences containing two complements after the following: burst, empty, find, drive, put, throw. 252. Adverb Equivalents. The function of the adverb, that of modifying the meaning of an adjective, a verb, or another adverb, is frequently performed by various equivalents. As in the case of adjective equivalents, the most common of these are the phrase and the clause. EXERCISE A 253. What words are modified by the italicized expressions? Explain how the meaning of each word is affected by the modifier. Hang on her temples like a golden fleece. 2. She rendered the selection with unusual skill. 3. They were greatly disturbed by what they heard. 4. Then let us say you are sad, because you are not merry. 5. If he had been forgotten, it had been a gap in our great feast. 6. Ten miles they drove through a driving rain. 7. Give him the book as I bade you. 8. It is stone cold, piping hot. Have you climbed up to walls and battlements. 12. And this way the water comes down at Lodore. Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. Questions. 1. What is the difference between the phrases in sentences two and three? 2. What kind of adverbial modifiers do we have in sentence four? sentence six? in the first part of seven? in eight? in nine? in ten? 3. What kinds of equivalents have adverbs? 4. What other parts of speech sometimes become adverbs? EXERCISE B 254. Analyze the following sentences, giving special attention to adverbial equivalents: 1. He threw the door wide open. 2. Alexander, the King of Macedon, was surnamed the Great, after his conquest of the Persian Empire. 3. Oliver Goldsmith entered a private house by mistake, thinking it to be a public inn. 4. The merchant sent all his goods by canal, there being no railway in that remote part of the country. 5. No one but Hawkeye knew that they were encamped where some Hurons were buried. 6. They should pardon my son because he has never comImitted such a crime before. 7. He walked with care, lest he should stumble. 8. Ever since we left the house it has not ceased raining. 9. Murder, though it have no tongue, will yet speak. IO. I agree to this, provided you sign your name. II. How often did the dog bark? 12. What clever sons you have! 13. How kind of you to do that! 14. He was turned adrift in the eddying stream of life. 15. Our side is in. 16. The rabbit cannot run so swiftly as the hare. 17. The sword hung almost over his head. 18. He is never happy away from home. 19. The cottage stood hard by the river. 20. We had sailed half across the Atlantic by that time. 255. Independent Elements.-There are several kinds of expressions in English which have no immediate grammatical relation with other parts of the senSome of these, however, are equivalent in meaning to regular modifiers. tence. EXERCISE 256. Point out the independent elements in the following sentences: 1. Alas! what boots it with incessant care To ply the homely slighted shepherd's trade? 2. O my Antonio, I do know of these That only are reputed wise For saying nothing. 3. The wind having come about, Bassanio will set sail immediately. 4. Behold, there stand the caskets, noble prince. 5. There is much, nevertheless, to be said in his favor. 6. You are, to speak truth, entirely in the right in this matter. 7. Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude. 8. Peace being declared between France and England in 1748, the governor had now an opportunity to sit at his ease in his grandfather's chair. 9. Thére was, moreover, another reason for his failure. 10. His father having died, John's mother was left free to carry out her original designs concerning him. II. A state of ease is, generally speaking, more attainable than a state of pleasure. 12. Shame being lost, all virtue is lost. 13. He staggered on, aimless and hopeless, the great stars twinkling calmly above him. 14. To return to what we were speaking of, tell me about your plans for this summer. GENERAL EXERCISE 257. By means of analysis, indicate the grammatical relations of words in the following sentences: 1. As the tree falls, so let it lie. 2. I should be glad to lend you that money if I had as much in my pocket. 3. A jackal, while prowling about the outskirts of a town, slipped into an indigo tank; and not being able to get out he laid himself down, so that he might be taken for dead. 4. The owner of the tank, when he beheld what seemed to be a dead jackal, carried his body into the jungle and there flung it down. 5. The wild gray rabbit is not so large as the tame rabbit kept in a cage. 6. The plan you acted on has answered well. 7. Twice is he armed that hath his quarrel just. 8. A river is joined at places by tributaries that swell its waters. 9. A gentleman of wealth and position, living in London, some sixty years ago, had a country seat in Kent, some forty miles from the metropolis. |