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33. Nature ever faithful is.

To such as trust her faithfulness.

34. Few and short were the prayers we said.

35. One man exhibited a sort of lens whereby he had succeeded in making sunshine from a lady's smile.

Exercise 31.-Pick out the adverbial clauses. Tell what each modifies, and what adverbial relationship it expresses.

1. May there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.

2. He is as merry as the day is long.

3. Be silent, that you may hear.

4. I say the tale as it was said to me.

5. If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight.

6. The music in my heart I bore

Long after it was heard no more.

7. Let your light so shine before men that they may

see your good works.

8. Whene'er a noble deed is wrought, Whene'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts, in glad surprise,

To higher levels rise.

9. Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. 10. I heard a thousand blended notes

While in the groves I sate reclined.

11. Alexander the Great wept because he could find no more worlds to conquer.

12. I am no orator as Brutus is.

13. I knew 'twas I, for many

do call me fool.

14. Whither thou goest, I will go.

15. "Tis full ten months since I did see him last.

16. Ye shall not eat of it, lest ye die.

17. The more I look, the more I prove

There's still more cause why I should love.

18. Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

19. She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.

20. If we do meet again, why, we shall smile;

If not, why, then this parting was well made. 21. For some must follow and some command, Though all be made of clay.

22. The longer sin hath possession of the heart,
The harder it will be to drive it out.
23. I stood on the bridge at midnight
As the clocks were striking the hour.
24. Since my country calls me, I obey.
25. If it assume my noble father's person,
I'll speak to it.

26. He wept that one so lovely

Should have a life so brief.

27. Saints will aid if men will call.

28.

He turns no more his head,

Because he knows a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.

29. Thought leapt out to wed with thought
Ere thought could wed itself with speech.

30. This rock shall fly

From its firm base as soon as I.

31. What a tangled web we weave

When first we practise to deceive.

32. Though this be madness, yet there is method in it. 33. Creditors have better memories than debtors.

34. The holy time is quiet as a nun.

35. They trimmed the lamps as the sun went down. 36. Howe'er deserved her doom might be,

Her treachery was faith to me.

37. Before the bright sun rises over the hill
In the cornfield poor Mary is seen.
Life has passed

38.

With me but roughly since I saw thee last. 39. Could you make it whole by crying Till your eyes and nose are red?

40. Death, whene'er he comes to me,

Shall come on the wild, unbounded sea.

41. Let the world go how it will.

42. Awake your senses, that you may the better judge. 43. There lies a vale in Ida, lovelier

Than all the valleys of Ionian hills..

44. You must love him, ere to you

He will seem worthy of your love.

45. He was so sorry for himself that he nearly wept. 46. Judge not, that ye be not judged.

47. Mowgli was speaking as he would speak to an impatient friend.

48. You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.

49. Thou comest in such a questionable shape

That I will speak to thee.

50. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad, for great is your reward in heaven.

Scheme for Sentence Analysis.

Use scheme on page 128 for clause analysis, with a dotted line separating the clauses; or the following:

1. Name the finite verbs in order, and with each its simple subject. When two or more finite verbs belong to one clause, give them the same number.

2. Give the limiting words of each clause, in the order of their finite verbs.

3. Tell the nature of each clause and the word that connects it to the rest of the sentence; if the clause is dependent, give its use (noun, adjective, adverb); if the dependent clause is adverbial, explain its thought relation to the rest of the sentence.

4. Tell the kind of sentence-simple, compound, complex, complex-compound.

Example 1.

She never told her love,

But let concealment, like a worm in the bud,
Feed on her damask cheek; she pined in thought,
And with a green and yellow melancholy

She sat like patience on a monument
Smiling at grief.

1. Finite Verbs with Subjects.

a. She told, let.

b. She pined.

c. She sat.

2. Limiting Words.

a. She..

b. She.

c. With.

..cheek. thought. ..grief.

3. Nature of Clauses. a. Independent.

b. Independent.

c. Independent, joined to b by and.

4. Compound.

Example 2.

What's gone and what's past help,
Should be past grief.

1. Finite Verbs with Subjects.

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3. Nature of Clauses.

a. Dependent, introduced by what, used as noun, subject of should be.

b. Same as a.

c. Independent.

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I will go back to my own Jungle, and I
will die upon the Council Rock, and
Bagheera, whom
whom I love, if he is not
screaming in the valley, may watch by
what is left for a little lest Chil use me as
he used Akela.

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