Part 14 (2/2)

This is a sentence, because ----; _Napoleon_ is the subject, because ----; _rose_, _reigned_, and _fell_ form the _compound predicate_, because they belong in common to the same subject, and say something about Napoleon.

_And_ connects _reigned_ and _fell_.

1. The Rhine and the Rhone rise in Switzerland.

2. Time and tide wait for no man.

3. Was.h.i.+ngton and Lafayette fought for American Independence.

4. Wild birds shrieked, and fluttered on the ground.

5. The mob raged and roared.

6. The seasons came and went.

7. Pride, poverty, and fas.h.i.+on cannot live in the same house.

8. The tables of stone were cast to the ground and broken.

9. Silver or gold will be received in payment.

10. Days, months, years, and ages will circle away.

REVIEW QUESTIONS.

What is a phrase? A phrase modifying a subject is equivalent to what?

Ill.u.s.trate. A phrase modifying a predicate is equivalent to what?

Ill.u.s.trate.

What are prepositions? What do you understand by a compound subject?

Ill.u.s.trate. What do you understand by a compound predicate? Ill.u.s.trate.

LESSON 36.

CONJUNCTIONS AND INTERJECTIONS.

The words _and_ and _or_, used in the preceding Lesson to connect the nouns and the verbs, belong to a cla.s.s of words called +_Conjunctions_+.

Conjunctions may also connect _words_ used as _modifiers;_ as,

A daring _but_ foolish feat was performed.

They may connect phrases; as,

We shall go to Saratoga _and_ to Niagara.

They may connect _clauses_, that is, expressions that, standing alone, would be sentences; as,

He must increase, _but_ I must decrease.

+DEFINITION.--A _Conjunction_, is a word used to connect words, phrases, or clauses+.

The +_Interjection_+ is the eighth and last _part of speech_. Interjections are mere exclamations, and are without grammatical relation to any other word in the sentence.

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