The Essentials of the English Sentence

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...number with the words which they modify. Although pronouns do not take attributive modifiers, they are modified as frequently as nouns by appositive and predicate adjectives: --Poor in this world's goods, they were rich in faith. She, weary from a long day's labor, slept soundly. We Americans are less conventional; you Frenchmen are formally polite. We all, like sheep, have gone astray. As An appositive adjective is sometimes introduced by as, used as an appositive connective: --They considered me as superfluous. The soldiers were accepted as sufficient. He was rejected as not available. Note.--I. The gentle rain refreshed the thirsty flowers, rain refreshed flowers An attributive modifier may be: --Attributive modifier An adjective, --the busy bee employs each shining hour. A noun, --The morning stars sang together. A participle, --The dying man asked for water. A converted adverb, --Our then dictator saw him fight. An appositive modifier in a simple sentence may Appositive. modifier be: --A noun, --My friend, the hunter, brings me meat. A pronoun, --I will do it myself. They chained us each to a column stone. An adjective, --Weary and faint, they abandoned the journey. An infinitive, --His promise to be there was fulfilled. The chief annoyance, being detained in prison, was removed. It is certain to rain. A participle, --Seeing his mistake, he made an apology. Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again. A phrase, --I perceived the wild terror in his eye. 2. The herald lark left his ground nest. lark left nest EXERCISES i. I will live unseen, unknown, and die unlamented. 2. He was of manners gentle, of affections mild. 3. The tall student wore a linen blouse, a cloth cap, and green spectacles. 4. Huckleberry, a mischievous little elf, snatched th