EXERCISE 89. In accordance with the rules given above, punctuate the following sentences and use capitals where they are needed: 1. that every sentence every paragraph and every whole composition should have oneness or unity is a principle that rhetoric teaches to secure unity in sentences is extremely important yet it is not an easy thing to do the following is a good rule for young writers have for each sentence one main thought and only one express it and then put the period 2. there are two forms of quotation namely the direct and the indirect in the sentence longfellow said art is long and time is fleeting the words of the writer are given exactly as they were written in the sentence brutus said that he would rather be a dog than such a roman we have the words of one person as reported by another 3. the quotation in this paragraph is taken from the writings of shakespeare the greatest of english poets do you see that it furnishes an excellent illustration of climax what a piece of work is man how noble in reason how infinite in faculty in form and moving how express and admirable in action how like an angel in apprehension how like a god 4. good writers avoid pleonasm or the expression of some part of their meaning more than once this construction is however sometimes used in poetry to lend force to the expression as the deck it was their field of fame can you find a similar construction in these lines from the wreck of the hesperus the skipper he stood beside the helm his pipe was in his mouth and he watched how the veering flaw did blow the smoke now west now south. 5. truth crushed to earth shall rise again. the eternal years of god are hers but error wounded writhes in pain and dies among his worshipers — bryant 6. i know not where his islands lift i only know i can not drift beyond his love and care whittier 7. the wise will determine from the gravity of the case the irritable from sensibility to oppression the high minded from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands the brave and bold from the love of honorable danger in a generous cause but with or without right a revolution will be the very last resource of the thinking and the good 8. know then this truth enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below 9. truth is fair and artless simple and sincere uniform and consistent 10. o sohrab an unquiet heart is thine 11. the table stood before him charged with food a side of roasted sheep and cakes of bread and dark green melons 12. as gen. southard was a soldier in the civil war we have invited him to take part in our fourth of july exercises which will be held in the elm street methodist church next wednesday morning VII. GENERAL REVIEW ETYMOLOGY AND SYNTAX I. The Sentence 1. Classification Use Form 2. Analysis Subject and predicate Phrase Clause Verb Complements Words Phrases Clauses Supplement Modifiers Words Phrases Clauses Connectives Independent elements II. Word Elements 2. Inflection 3. Syntax III. Phrase Elements 1. Classification 2. Syntax IV. Clause Elements 1. Classification 2. Syntax The outline given above may be used for topical recitations or for a systematic review of the whole subject of English grammar. The student should recite without the help of questions from the teacher. With the help of the Index, he should refer, when necessary, to topics and explanations in the text; and he should illustrate his statements with words, phrases, and sentences taken from the selections given below. The recitation might proceed as follows: MODEL. Sentences are classified according to use and according to form. The kinds of sentences classified according to use are: declarative, interrogative, and imperative. A declarative sentence is a sentence used to state or declare something. Surely, if ever any poet might have equaled himself with legislators on this ground, it was Burns, is a declarative sentence. An interrogative sentence is a sentence, etc. 1. "Let me make the songs of a people," said Fletcher, "and you shall make its laws." Surely, if ever any poet might have equaled himself with legislators on this ground, it was Burns. His songs are already part of the mother tongue, not of Scotland only, but of Britain, and of the millions that in all ends of the earth speak a British language. In hut and hall, as the heart unfolds itself in many-colored joy and woe of existence, the name, the voice of that joy and that woe, is the name and voice that Burns has given them. Strictly speaking, perhaps no British man has so deeply affected the thoughts and feelings of so many men, as this solitary and altogether private individual, with means apparently the humblest. - Carlyle. 2. Upward went the pilgrims of the Great Carbuncle, now treading upon the tops and thickly interwoven branches of dwarf pines, which, by the growth of centuries, though mossy with age, had barely reached three feet in altitude. Next, they came to masses and fragments of naked rock heaped confusedly together, like a cairn reared by giants in memory of a giant chief. In this bleak realm of upper air nothing breathed, nothing grew; there was no light but was concentrated in their two hearts; they had climbed so high that Nature herself seemed no longer to keep them company. She lingered beneath them, within the verge of the forest trees, and sent a farewell glance after her children as they strayed where her own green footprints had never been. Hawthorne 3. "O Tiber! father Tiber! To whom the Romans pray, Plunged headlong in the tide. - Macaulay |