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. 1808 edition. Excerpt: ... PART III. SYNTAX. THE third part of grammar is SYNTAX, which treats of the agreement and construction of words in a sentence. A sentence is an assemblage of words, forming a complete sense. Sentences are of two kinds, simple and compound. A simple sentence has in it but one subject, and one finite* ...
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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. 1808 edition. Excerpt: ... PART III. SYNTAX. THE third part of grammar is SYNTAX, which treats of the agreement and construction of words in a sentence. A sentence is an assemblage of words, forming a complete sense. Sentences are of two kinds, simple and compound. A simple sentence has in it but one subject, and one finite* verb: as, " Life is short." A compound sentence contains two or more simple sentences, joined together by one or more connective words: as, 'Life is short, and art is long." As sentences themselves are divided into simple and compound, so the members of sentences may be divided likewise into simple and compound members: for whole 'sentences, whether simple or compounded, may become members of other sentences, by means of some additional connexion; as in the following example: "Toe ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; but Israel doth not know, my people do not consider," This sentence consists of two compounded members, each of which is subdivided into two simple members, which are properly called clauses. * Finite verbs are those to which number and person appertain. Verbs in the infinitive mood have no respect to number or person. There are three sorts of simple sentences; the explicative or explaining; the interrogative, or asking; the imperative, or commanding. An explicative sentence is, when a thing is said to be or not to be, to do or not to do, to suffer or not to suffer, in a direct manner: as, "I am; thou writest; Thomas is loved." If the sentence be negative, the adverb not is placed after the auxiliary, or after the verb itself when it has no auxiliary: as, "I did not touch him;" or, "t touched him not." In an interrogative sentence, "or when a question is asked, the nominative case follows the principal verb, or the...
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