The boy set up betwixt his grandsire's knees,
Who thrust him in the hollows of his arms,
And clapt him on the hands and on the cheek.
Compound Sentence consisting of five Simple Sentences.

[they]

- saw

Subject
Predicate
Objective enlargement of Predicate - the boy

Participial enlargement of Object

set up betwixt his grandsire's knees.

who thrust him

Analysis of Fourth Sentence.

Objective enlargement of Predicate
Prepositional enlargement of Pre-

Subject -
Predicate

in the hollows of his arms.

[who]

clapt
him

Analysis of Fifth Sentence.

III.

Where we are I cannot tell,

But I wish I could hear the Inchcape bell.

Compound Sentence consisting of two Complex Sentences.

tell.

bell.

but.

I

cannot tell.

Second Clause.

Subjunctive Con-}

Analysis of Second Sentence.

we

are.

where.

Subordinative

junction

Subject

Predicate

Subject

Predicate

First Clause.

Objective enlargement of Predicate - the Inchcape bell.

Subordinative

junction

Subjunctive Con

IV.

}[that.]

She gave them a funeral supper that night,
Where they all agreed that revenge was sweet,
And young Prince Crocodiles delicate meat.

Compound Sentence consisting of one Simple Sentence and two
Complex Sentences.

First Sentence (Simple). She gave.
Second Sentence (Complex). They all

Eurydice the rocks and hollow mountains rung.

Compound Contracted Sentence consisting of four Simple Sentences. The woods [rung] . Eurydice.

First Sentence.

Second Sentence. The floods [rung].

Third Sentence.

Eurydice.

The rocks [rung]

Eurydice.

Fourth Sentence.

(The hollow moun-
tains rung.

[Eurydice.]

Co-ordinative Conjunction and omitted before second and

third Sentences only expressed before the fourth.

EXERCISES FOR ANALYSIS OF THE COMPOUND

SENTENCE.
I.

If she found the lover ever,
With his red-roan steed of steeds,
Sooth I know not; but I know
She could never show him, never
That swan's nest among the reeds.

II

When the Crocodile Queen came home, she found
That her eggs were broken and scattered around,
And that six young princes, darlings all,

Were missing; for none of them answered her call.

III.

Now, woman, why without your veil ?
And wherefore do you look so pale?

And, woman, why do you groan so sadly?

And wherefore beat your bosom madly

IV.

She steals to the window and looks at the sand,

And over the sand at the sea;

And her eyes are set in a stare ;

And anon there breaks a sigh,
And anon there drops a tear,
From a sorrow-clouded eye,

And a heart sorrow-laden,

For the cold green eyes of a little mermaiden,
And the touch of her glassy hair.

K

V.

Better than such discourse doth silence long,
Long barren silence, square with my desire;
To sit without emotion, hope, or aim,
In the loved presence of my cottage fire,
And listen to the flapping of the flame,
Or kettle chirping its faint under-song.

VI.

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean;
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy autumn fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.

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APPENDIX I.

LIST OF PREFIXES AND AFFIXES.

PREFIXES.

Prefixes in English are mostly derived from three sourcesthe English language itself, which belongs to the German family of tongues; the Latin language, from which they usually come to us through the French; and the Greek language, from which they usually come to us through the Latin.