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A Treatise on the Structure of the English Language, Or, the Analysis and Classification of Sentences With Their Component Parts; With Illustrations and Exercises Adapted to the Use of Schools
Samuel Stillman Greene
Paperback. General Books LLC 2012-02-02.
ISBN 9781150041440
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863. Excerpt: ... impressed the deepest sentiment of fear on the, hearts of her enemies?"--Imperative. "Shut now the volume of history, and tell me, on any principle of human probability, what shall be the fate of this handful of adventurers."--Exclamatory. "How different would have been our lot this day, both as men and women, had the Revolution failed of success!" 7. The component parts of a sentence are called its elements. 8. A sentence may contain five distinct elements. Of these, two are indispensable to its formation, and are hence called Phincipal Elements. The other three are dependent on these, and are hence called Subordinate Elements. 9. Each of these five elements may take three distinct forms, called the first, second, and third, classes of the elements. CHAPTER I. (SIMPLE Sentences.) ELEMENTS OF THE FIRST CLASS.--WORDS. SECTION I. Preliminary Remarks And Definitions. 10. An element of the first class is a single word, used as a constituent part of a sentence. 11. A word is the sign of an idea. (a.) An idea is a mental picture or conception of an object, either. material or immaterial, and may be represented singly; as, tree, river, horse; or as associated with some other idea; as, tall tree, deep river, wild horse. In the first examples, tree, river, horse, represent single ideas of the objects which they name; but in the second, the ideas represented by tall, deep, and wild, are associated with them. (6.) Some words are used merely as signs of the relation of ideas (see 14, 6.); as, " Kingdom of Great Britain." 12. Connected ideas require a corresponding connection of the words which represent them; as faithful man, house of representatives. The words faithful and man are connected so as to show a relation between the two ideas which they represent. So als
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