15.

lest you fall

since this is

the last day of the year

as well as I can

because he deserved to be promoted

IV. Supply connectives of inequality in each expression below, and

give reason for your choice:

he returned from the

6. We warned him

find himself suddenly overcome by the gases.

7. I have not seen him

we were reading in the library, a loud noise interrupted us.

East.

8.

9.

10.

we were away, our house was robbed.
a boy works hard

in high school he will

have little difficulty in making his way

out into the world. 11. I do not doubt

record,

he gets

he will make an excellent

he meets with no misfortune.

12. The possession of power did not turn the heads of the

American people,

they had long been in the

habit of exercising a great degree of self-control.
no man ever had a point of pride

13.

was

15.

live in the spirit.

the rays of the lantern fell within the pit, there passed upwards a glow and a glare, from a confused heap of gold and jewels, absolutely dazzled

our eyes.

V. Add clauses to the following simple sentences that will make them complex. Do the same to make them compound. Explain your connectives in every case:

1. We might have won that game.

2. I met Mary on the street.

3. He is the leader of our class.

4. We go for a walk every morning.
5. I am very fond of baseball.

6. They refused to vote for John.

7. It will probably rain to-morrow.

8. The prosperous man owes his success

munity.

9. He gave his consent to our going.

10. I am very happy.

to the com

VI. Supply better connectives in the following sentences, in place of the faulty ones. Tell why yours are better:

1. I will not go without you do.

2. I do not know as I can tell you.

3. No sooner had he come when I left.

4. He swims like I do.

5. Stand in front of the class so as all may see you.

6. While he may not mean it, I shall reprimand him.

7. I do not know if I shall fail or not.

8. He came when I was studying my lessons.

9. Those diamonds sparkle like the stars shine in the night.

10. There is no doubt but what he will succeed and be ap

pointed.

VII. Reduce the following complex sentences to simple sentences. Explain how you have done it in each case. Has the original sentence lost anything?

1. He came while I was away.

2. They left as the clock was striking eight.

3. When I reached home I found much confusion.

4. Though he is very lazy, he may pass his algebra.

5. I like him because he is sincere.

6. He believes that the prisoner is innocent.

7. When I arrived at the station, I noticed a man who looked strange and bewildered.

8. Though I was late, he was glad to see me when I ar

rived.

9. It is always at the beginning of the year when I make

resolutions.

10. The pupil who is conscientious and industrious will suc

ceed in the end.

VIII. Examine the following complex sentences closely. Classify the connectives in each. Show that each sentence really contains two or more ideas of unequal weight and that it could not possibly be made merely simple or compound : 1. For anything I know, I may have had some wild idea of running all the way to Dover, when I gave up the pursuit of the young man with the donkey cart, and started for Greenwich.

2. Miss Murdstone, during the latter portion of the contest, had dismounted, and was now waiting with her brother at the bottom of the steps, until my aunt should be at leisure to receive them.

3. Her chin, which was what is called a double chin, was so fat that it entirely swallowed up the strings of her bonnet, bow and all.

4. Steerforth dusted me under a lamp-post and put my hat

into shape, which somebody produced from somewhere

in a most extraordinary manner, for I hadn't had it on before.

5. When Agnes wrote to tell me of her safe arrival, I was as miserable as when I saw her going away.

6. After I had been there about ten or twelve days, it came into my thoughts that I should lose my reckoning of time for want of books and pens and ink, and should even forget the Sabbath days.

7. After I had eaten I tried to walk, but found myself so weak that I hardly could carry a gun, for I never went out without it.

8. After I had thus secured one part of my little living stock, I went about the island searching for another private place to make such another deposit.

9. There needed very few arguments to persuade a single man to yield, when he saw five men upon him and his comrade knocked down.

10. The Moorish king who built it was a great magician, or, as some believed, had sold himself to the devil, and had laid the whole fortress under a magic spell.

11. The Moors of Granada regarded the Alhambra as a miracle of art, and had a tradition that the king who founded it dealt in magic, or at least in alchemy, by means whereof he procured the immense sums of gold expended in its erection.

12. He caused the apartments to be hung with innumerable silver and crystal lamps, which he filled with a fragrant oil prepared according to a receipt discovered by him in the tombs of Egypt.

13. The windows were darkened, for the princess lay within, prey to a devouring grief that refused all alleviation.

14. As this Mohamod was one day riding forth with a train of his courtiers, by the foot of the mountain of Elvira, he met a band of horsemen returning from a foray into the land of the Christians.

15. While these discussions were going on amongst the group outside the Rainbow, a higher consultation was being carried on within, under the presidency of Mr. Crackenthorp, the rector, assisted by Squire Cass, and other substantial parishioners.

16. Among the notable mothers, Dolly Winthrop was the one whose neighborly offices were the most accept

able to Marner, for they were rendered without any show of bustling instruction.

17. I was never made aware of her entrance into my closed study save by the dear music of her low sweet voice, as she placed her hand upon my shoulder.

18. I was, perhaps, the more forcibly impressed with it, as he gave it, because, in the under, or mystic current of its meaning, I fancied that I perceived, and for the first time, a full consciousness, on the part of Usher, of the tottering of his lofty reason upon her throne.

19. As I felt the sickening sweep of the descent, I had instinctively tightened my hold upon the barrel, and closed my eyes.

20. We crossed the creek at the head of the island by means of a skiff, and, ascending the high grounds on the shore of the mainland, proceeded in a northwesterly direction, through a tract of country excessively wild and desolate, where no trace of a human footstep was to be seen.

21. Driving a peg, with great nicety, into the ground at the precise spot where the beetle fell, my friend now produced from his pocket a tape measure.

22. On lifting up the leaf, I discovered that a hairy spider was ambushed there and had the bee by the throat. 23. I always feel that I have missed some good fortune if I am away from home when my bees swarm. 24. A man has a sharper eye than a dog, or a fox, or than any of the wild creatures, but not so sharp an ear or nose.