Language, Grammar, and Composition (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...is broken into bars Of orange, gold, and gray; Gone is the sun, come are the stars, And night infolds the day. 7. True hope is swift, and flies with swallows' wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. 8. Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry. 9. Fortune makes a fool of him whom she makes her darling. 10. Hardly had the war begun, when England issued a "proclamation of neutrality." This acknowledged the belligerency of the Confederacy. The North had hoped for the sympathy of the English in a contest manifestly in the interest of freedom. When England so quickly issued this proclamation, there was considerable resentment. France soon took the same step, and other states followed. SECTION 113. USES OF ADVERBIAL CLAUSES. So far in the study of adverbial clauses, they have been used to denote time and place. But there are many other relations that may be expressed by these clauses. (a) If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the pit. (b) Manufacturing towns spring up near coal-mines, because coal is a very important source of power. (c) Though thy smile be lost to sight, To mem'ry thou art dear. (d) We sow that we may reap. (e) Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. What is the idea expressed by the clause in (a)? Does the clause modify both? pit? shall fall? Is the clause adjective or adverbial? Answer similar questions about (b), (c), (d), and (e). Does If in (a) seem to you to have an adverbial idea in it? Has it a connective value? Does because in (b) connect? Does it modify? Does Though in (c) connect? Does it modify? Does that in (d) and (e) connect? Does it modify? Adverbial clauses may express a great variety of ideas. The principal ones are time, place, condition, concession, caus...