Part 78 (1/2)

9 If _we_ knew the facts we could not be misled

10 Inform yourself before _you_ seek to teach others

11 We must unite in order that _we_ may possess power

12 It is e to dare ere _you_ have ceased to dreanorant, we shall remain enslaved

15 We soht because _it_ is our own

16 Though _we_ should lose the strike ill not despair

17 The battle waged so fiercely that _thousands_ were slain

PHRASE CONJUNCTIONS

+360+ There are certain phrases which have coether as conjunctions so commonly that we may consider theh_, _but also_, _but likewise_, _so that_, _except that_, _inas that_, _in order that_, _as well as_, _as far as_, _so far as_, _as little as_, _provided that_, _seeing that_, etc

Exercise 2

Write sentences using these phrase conjunctions to introduce clauses

NOUN CLAUSES

+361+ We have found that there are two kinds of clauses, principal clauses and subordinate clauses

+A principal clause is one that does not depend on any word+

+A subordinate clause is one that depends upon some word or words in the principal clause+

We have found, also, that these principal clauses are always connected by co-ordinate conjunctions, for they are of equal rank and importance; neither is dependent upon the other

Subordinate clauses are always connected with the principal clause by a subordinate conjunction The subordinate clauses which we have been studying have all been adverb clauses which are used to describe the action expressed in the verb contained in the principal clauses

The subordinate clause in a sentence may also be used as a noun When the subordinate clause is used as a noun it is called a noun clause

+362+ +A noun clause is a clause used as a noun+

A noun clause may be used in any way in which a noun is used, except as a possessive It may be used as a subject, an object, a predicate complement, or in apposition with a noun These noun clauses ative pronouns or by conjunctions For example:

I knoho_ he is

He asked, ”_what_ do you want?”

I knohere_ it is

In the first sentence, _who he is_, is a noun clause used as the object of the verb _know_ It tells _what_ I know, and is the object of the verb _know_,--just as if I had said; _I know the facts_ In this sentence the noun, _facts_, is the object of the verb _know_

In the second sentence, _He asked, ”what do you want?_” the noun clause _what do you want_ is the object of the verb _asked_, and is introduced by the interrogative pronoun _what_

We will study in a subsequent lesson the use of noun clauses introduced by relative pronouns In this lesson we are studying the conjunctions

In the last sentence, _I knohere it is_, the noun clause _where it is_, is the object of the verb _know_, and is introduced by the conjunction _where_

+363+ Noun clauses are introduced by the subordinate conjunctions, _where_, _when_, _whence_, _whither_, _whether_, _hohy_, and also by the subordinate conjunction _that_ For example: