ately hard, yet the key did open it. Then they thrust open the gate to make their escape with speed; but that gate as it opened, made such a cracking that it waked Giant Despair, who, hastily rising to pursue his prisoners, felt his limbs to fail; for his fits took him again, so that he could by no means go after them. Then they went on, and came to the King's highway, and so were safe, because they were out of his jurisdiction. APPENDIX A. ANALYSIS.-Write the sentence in vertical columns. Select the first verb, its subject, object, words connected with it by prepositions, words P. means Predicative Combination (II. 1); A. means Attributive Combination (II. 2); O. Comp. means Objective Combination completing A. Declarative B. Co-ordinate copulative with A. Declarative <Anglo-Sax. tham, dat. of thaet. I.—SYNTAX OF SIMPLE SENTENCES. 1. A SENTENCE is the expression of a thought in words. A simple sentence can have only one finite verb. 2. A DECLARATIVE SENTENCE is a proposition having no grammatical dependence on other sentences or clauses. The proposition may be affirmative or negative. 3. INTERROGATIVE SENTENCES are of two kinds, Direct and Indirect. A DIRECT INTERROGATIVE SENTENCE is a question seeking an answer, Yes or No. AN INDIRECT INTERROGATIVE SENTENCE calls for a specific answer. It is introduced by an interrogative word, as who, which, where, when. 4. AN IMPERATIVE SENTENCE; AN EXCLAMATORY SENTENCE; AN OPTATIVE SENTENCE; each kind is defined by its name. II.-There are four kinds of syntax, PREDICATIVE, ATTRIBUTIVE, ADVERBIAL, and OBJECTIVE. I. A PREDICATIVE COMBINATION is a simple sentence having a grammatical subject and grammatical predicate.* The subject may be a noun, pronoun, infinitive, any word or phrase of which the verb affirms some * The Logical Subject of a sentence is the grammatical subject together with any words in attributive combination with it. The Logical Predicate includes the adverbial modifiers, if any, of the grammatical predicate. |