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14 Alas! that any should refuse to join in this battle

15 You have not, it seems, understood the issue

16 Indeed, solidarity is our only hope

17 Br-r-r-r-r-r-r, thus whirl the rind our children's lives

18 Hush!+ Over the crash of the cannon sounds the wail of Europe's women and children

EXPLANATORY WORDS

+398+ We so in the construction of a sentence to explain other words in the sentence For exaned_, subscribe as follows: Helen Keller, _the e_, cha class

In the first sentence, the words, _the undersigned_, are added to the pronoun _we_ to explain e_ means In the second sentence, the words, _the e_, are added to explain who Helen Keller is Words added to other words in this way are called explanatory words They are placed in apposition to the noun which they explain Apposition means _by the side of_, or _in position near_ You remember that in clauses we found that a clauseof that noun For exath_

These words in apposition may themselves be modified or limited by other words or phrases or clauses For exae, cha class

In this sentence, _woman_ is the noun placed in apposition to the particular name, Helen Keller, and the noun _woman_ is modified by the adjectives _the_, and _wonderful_, and by the phrase _of this age_

Sometimes a second explanatory word is placed in apposition to the first one This is quite often the case in legal docue is quite forned, _members of Local No 38_, do hereby move, etc

I, John Smith, _Notary Public_, in and for the county of Clay, etc

These words, _undersigned_ and _members_, are both placed in apposition to the pronoun _We_, explaining to whom that pronoun refers

Exercise 5

In the following sentences note the explanatory words and their reat abolitionist, was a enius

2 Buckle, the historian, writes from the view point of the materialistic conception of history

3 Giovannitti, the poet, wrote ”Arrows in the Gale”

4 Helen Keller, cha class, wrote the introduction to this book

5 We, the workers of the world, will souilty of treason, a crime punishable by death

7 Ferrer, the martyr of the twentieth century, was put to death by the Spanish governreat French socialist, was the first martyr to peace

9 But ye, Plebs, Populace, People, Rabble, Mob, Proletariat, live and abide forever

10 Ye are eternal, even as your father, labor, is eternal

11 This document, the Constitution of the United States, hinders the progress of the people

12 Thepress, should be reverenced by every class-conscious worker

13 Wallace, the scientist and author, was co-discoverer with Darwin of the theory of evolution

14 Karl Marx, the thinker, applied this theory to social forces

15 Do you understand the three basic principles of Socialisle, economic determinism and surplus value?

Exercise 6

Read the following list of words and note the ideas which they suggest to you, thenthese words, _roup of words in apposition_, which explain more fully these words