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CHAPTER I--SENTENCES

A _Sentence_ is an asse a nominative and a verb; as, ”Reward sweetens labour”

The _principal parts_ of a sentence are usually three; namely, the SUBJECT, or nominative,--the attribute, or finite VERB,--and the case put after, or the OBJECT[322] governed by the verb: as, ”_Crimes deserve punishment_”

The _other_ or _subordinate parts_ depend upon these, either as prih_ crimes _justly_ deserve _very severe_ punishments”

Sentences are usually said to be of two kinds, _simple_ and _compound_[323]

A _sile assertion, supposition, command, question, or exclamation; as, ”David and Jonathan loved each other”--”If thine eneer”--”Do violence to no man”--”Alory shall I have acquired!”--HOOKE: _Mur Seq_, p 71

A _compound sentence_ is a sentence which consists of two or more simple ones either expressly or tacitly connected; as, ”Send men to Joppa, _and_ call for Simon, _whose_ surname is Peter; _who_ shall tell thee words, _whereby_ thou and all thy house shall be saved”--_Acts_, xi, 13 ”The more the works of Cowper are read, the more his readers will find reason to ady, of his literary talents”--HAYLEY: _Mur Seq_, p 250

A _clause_, or _member_, is a subdivision of a compound sentence; and is itself a sentence, either siive hiive him water to drink”--_Prov_, xxv, 21[324]

A _phrase_ is two or more words which express some relation of different ideas, but no entire proposition; as, ”By theloved his own”

Words that are omitted by _ellipsis_, and that are necessarily understood in order to complete the construction, (and only such,)principles_ to be observed in the construction of sentences, are eed, as nearly as possible, in the order of the parts of speech

THE RULES OF SYNTAX

RULE I--ARTICLES

Articles relate to the nouns which they limit

RULE II--NOMINATIVES

A Noun or a pronoun which is the subject of a finite verb, must be in the nominative case

RULE III--APPOSITION A Noun or a personal pronoun used to explain a preceding noun or pronoun, is put, by apposition, in the same case

RULE IV--POSSESSIVES

A Noun or a pronoun in the possessive case, is governed by the na possessed

RULE V--OBJECTIVES

A Noun or a pronoun made the object of an active-transitive verb or participle, is governed by it in the objective case