"How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view.”

A Complex Sentence-Why?

ANALYSIS BY THE DIAGRAM.

Principal Sentence-"How dear to my heart are the scenes of my child

hood."

Auxiliary Sentence-" When fond recollection presents them to view."

of the Subject.

Fond.

.a Word.

ADJUNCTS.

a Phrase.

Of the Predicate.. To view
Of the Object.....

ANALYSIS BY THE CHART.

an Element in the Sentence-(a), (b), (d), (k).

How.

Dear..

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(A), (C), (H3 ).

(a), (b), (e), (m).
(A), (C), (H).
(a), (b). (d) (j).
(A), (B,) (E). (L).
(a), (b), (e), (1).

(a), (b) (f). (o).

"To my heart,"-A Prepositional Phrase (T).

"Of my childhood,"-A Prepositional Phrase (T).

"When fond recollection presents them to view,"—Auxiliary Sentence.

.To....

View.

“To view,”—A Prepositional Phrase (T2).

Thus analyze the following

ADDITIONAL COMPLEX SENTENCES.

1. "If you have a proper self-respect, YOU WILL not BE
LAVISH of your company to any one."

2. "HE, like the world, his ready VISIT PAYS,
Where Fortune smiles."

3. "If you would cultivate refinement of manners, you
MUST never ALLOW YOURSELF to be rude or
boisterous with your young companions."

4. "Confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate."

5. "Where'er we turn, thy glories shine."

6. "Does Beauty ever deign to dwell

Where health and active use are strangers?"

7. "Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close Up yonder hill the village murmur rose.'

AUXILIARY SENTENCES

ADVERBIAL SECONDARY ADJUNCTS.

1. "He called so loud that all the hollow deep resounded." 2. "These lofty trees wave not less proudly

That their ancestors moulder beneath them."

3. "Oft as the morning dawns, should gratitude ascend." 4. "Let school-taught pride dissemble all it can."

5. "Who is here so base that he would be a bondman ?"

6. "Costly thy habits, as thy purse can buy."

7. "The influence of the teacher is so great upon the children under his care, either for good or evil, that it is of the utmost importance to them as well as to himself, that his habits should be unexceptionable.'

8. "A person who is addicted to play or gaming, though he took but little delight in it at first, by degrees contracts so strong an inclination towards it, and gives himself up so entirely to it, that it seems the only end of his being."

AUXILIARY SENTENCES.

LOGICAL ADJUNCTS OF SUBSTANTIVES.

9. "Why is it that great men have had either great mothers or great teachers ?"

10. "Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings ?"

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"He woke, to hear his sentry's shriek

To arms! they come! the Greek! the Greek!" 12. "He heard-with voice as trumpet loudBozarris cheer his band

Strike! till the last armed foe expires."

13. "It is to be feared that some young ladies think themselves excused from the duty of filial reverence because they are more highly educated than their parents."

AUXILIARY SENTENCES

ADVERBIAL AND ADJECTIVE COMBINED.

14. "There ARE SCHOOLS which the scholar leaves with regret, where a thirst for knowledge has been given, where habits of intellectual labor have been formed, where the principle of emulation never enters, and knowledge is its own reward."

15. "MEN, whose circumstances will permit them to chose their own way of life, ARE INEXCUSABLE if they do not pursue that which their judgment tells them is the most laudable."

16. "Speak kindly to the little child,

Lest from his heart you drive away
The light of love, whose visions mild
Are opening like the dawn of day:
Force not one cloud across the heaven,
A God of love to him hath given."

17. "I think of the friends who had roamed with me there, When the sky was so blue, and the flowers were so fair."

18. "And methought the lone river that murmured along,
Was more dull in its motion, more sad in its song,
Since the birds, that had nestled and warbled above,
Had all fled from its banks at the fall of the grove."

19. "Washington had attained his manhood when that spark of liberty was struck out in his own country, which has since kindled into a flame and shot its beams over the earth."

20. "Ye that keep watch in heaven, as earth asleep Unconscious lies, effuse your mildest beams."

21.

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Thou, who didst put to flight

Primeval Silence, when the morning stars,
Exulting, shouted o'er the rising ball,
Strike wisdom from my soul."

22. "Who has not experienced the sad revolution of feeling which takes place, when, after an evening spent in the utmost gayety, with an agreeable party of young friends, you begin to reflect on what has passed, and perceive that. in the hilarity of the moment, you have been betrayed into errors which your conscience condemns."

23. "And, as Jesus passed by, he saw a man who was blind."

24. "And he that speaks, doth gripe the hearer's wrist, Whilst he that hears, makes fearful action

With wrinkled brows, with nods, with rolling eyes."

25. "The last use which I shall make of this remarkable property in human nature, of being delighted with those actions to which it is accustomed, is, to show how absolutely necessary it is for us to gain habits of virtue in this life, if we would enjoy the pleasures of the next."

26. "The state of bliss we call heaven, will not be capable of effecting those minds which are not thus qualified for it; we must, in this world, gain a relish for truth and virtue, if we would be able to taste that knowledge and perfection which are to make us happy in the next."

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SENTENCES COMPOUND AND COMPLEX. [Only the principal Sentences are numbered.]

"Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause; and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honor; and have respect to mine honor, that you may believe. Censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of 4 Cæsar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Cæsar was no less than his. If then that friend demand why 5 Brutus rose against Cæsar, this is my answer—not that I loved Cæsar less, but that I loved Rome more."

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"When you survey this globe of earth, with all its appendages; when you behold it inhabited by numberless ranks of creatures, all moving in their proper spheres, all verging to their proper ends, all animated by the same great source of life, all supported at the same great bounteous table; when you behold, not only the earth, but the ocean, and the air, swarming with living creatures, all happy in their situation; when you behold yonder sun darting an effulgent blaze of glory over the heavens, garnishing mighty worlds, and waking ten thousand songs of praise: when you behold unnumbered systems diffused through vast immensity, clothed in splendor, and rolling in majesty; when you behold these things, your 6 affections will rise above all the vanities of time; 7 your full souls will struggle with ecstacy, and your 8 reason, passions, and feelings, all united, will rush up to the skies, with a devout acknowledgment of the existence, power, wisdom, and goodness of God."

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"He who can converse with nature, and ponder on the varied mysteries she brings to his notice, and by which she fills his heart with gratitude and delight, can never be alone."

"The power of character growing out of the free development of the turn of mind of every individual, and the feeling connected with it, that each may and