KEY TO DALGLEISH'S GRAMMATICAL ANALYSIS, WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES. FOR THE USE OF TEACHERS. EDINBURGH: OLIVER AND BOYD, TWEEDDALE COURT. LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO. 1865. 30276 PRICE EIGHTEENPENCE. 98 PREFACE. THE Work to which the present volume is a KEY, differs so materially in many of its details from the systems of Analysis in common use, that it has been deemed advisable, for the guidance of Teachers, to publish the Exercises worked out in detail. While, however, intended primarily for the use of Teachers, the KEY may be consulted with advantage by advanced students who may wish to examine thoroughly the principles of Analysis as illustrated in a great variety of examples. It is not intended, in any sense, to encourage laziness, or facilitate deception, in the case of pupils who are required to show their knowledge of principles by working the Exercises independently at home. The Exercises have, in every case, been worked out according to the principles explained in "Grammatical Analysis," and reference is made to that work in the foot-notes wherever it seemed needful. The nature of phrases and clauses has been determined by their meaning, or by the functions they perform in a sentence; not by their form, or the words by which they are introduced. The supplying of ellipses, and the expansion of contracted clauses, have been carried out only in so far as seemed necessary to elucidate the meaning of a sentence, and to explain the connexion of its parts. The only auxiliaries admitted as competent to form a compound tense, or predicative phrase (vide Analysis, § 32, II.), are the verbs, be, have, shall, and will. The other so-called auxiliaries (may, can, do, must, etc.), have been treated as incomplete verbs, and the infinitives following them have been placed in the Complement, In the case of the Prepositional Complement (vide Analysis, § 27), the word governed by the preposition has been entered as the Object, and that because it is the function of the prepositional complement to give an intransitive verb a transitive force. In dealing with clauses introduced by the relative what, the ordinary practice of resolving the pronoun into that which has not been followed; and that, partly from a wish to analyze every sentence as it is printed, and without any verbal changes, partly because the retaining of what gives a truer and more correct analysis. For example, in Ex. 20, B. 6, "What here we call our life is such," The true subject of "is such" is not the word "that" taken out of what, but the whole clause, "What here we call our life." The analytic Notation makes it possible to indicate this very clearly, as may be seen by referring to page 52 of this volume. The particles there and it, used as substitutes for the subject, when the true subject follows the verb, have been treated ast appositional complements, as explained in Analysis, § 25, note. |