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2. Printing was unknown when Homer wrote the Iliad.

3. Where the bee sucks honey, the spider sucks poison.

4. Ah! few shall part where many meet.

5. Where the devil cannot come, he will send.

6. While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

7. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

8. When the tale of bricks is doubled, Moses comes.

9. When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies within me.

10. The upright man speaks as he thinks.

11. He died as the fool dieth.

12. The scepter shall not depart from Judah until s.h.i.+loh come.

LESSON 60.

SENTENCE-BUILDING.

ADVERB CLAUSES.

Expand each of the following phrases into an adverb clause, and fit this clause into a sentence of your own building.

+Model+.--_At sunset; when the sun set_. We returned _when the sun set_.

At the hour; on the playground; by moonlight; in youth; among icebergs; after school; at the forks of the road; during the day; before church; with my friend.

To each of the following independent clauses, join an adverb clause, and so make complex sentences.

---- Peter began to sink. The man dies ----. Gra.s.s grows ----. Iron ---- can easily be shaped. The rattlesnake shakes his rattle ----. ---- a nation mourns. Pittsburg stands ----. He dared to lead ----.

+To the Teacher+.--For additional composition exercises with particular reference to adverb clauses, see Notes, p. 177.

See COMPOSITION EXERCISES in the Supplement--Selection from the Brothers Grimm.

REVIEW QUESTIONS.

In what two ways may nouns be used as modifiers? Ill.u.s.trate. Nouns and p.r.o.nouns denoting possession may sometimes be changed into what?

Ill.u.s.trate. Give the rule for the punctuation of explanatory modifiers.

Into what may an adjective be expanded? Into what may a participial phrase be expanded? Give ill.u.s.trations. Give an example of a complex sentence. Of a clause. Of an independent clause. Of a dependent clause. Into what may a phrase used as an adverb be expanded? Ill.u.s.trate.

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