30. He should be dealt with considerately and kindly instead of our treating him with the severity with which we do. 31. The man suddenly dropped dead to the astonishment of all. 32. John was quick and keen and Charles was slow and dull and both boys liked different things. 33. So he said he would go with us if we cared to have him which of course delighted us. 34. You are as young or younger than I and we are very much alike. 35. Scarcely had I commenced to work than I was interrupted. 36. The seats all being occupied they were obliged to stand. II. Combine the following groups of ideas into simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex sentences. Justify your result in each case; that is, show that the main ideas have been your guide in deciding the sentence form to be adopted: Four boys were playing ball in the street. 4. He will be the youngest graduate. Honolulu is my favorite city. It is located on the Hawaiian Islands. Hawaii is called The Crossroads of the Pacific. The climate is very equable. The people are noted for their hospitality. The Japanese are very kind and polite. They never kiss or shake hands. 5. They bow profusely to one another and to strangers. They seldom weep visibly. They sail to-morrow. They are going to Italy. 7. They sail on the Carmania. They are to remain abroad a year. They have taken their automobile with them. 9. 10. He will fail in everything. He is a stranger in the city. He said his book was lost. He posted a sign for its recovery. It was a valuable and interesting book. He asked every one to help him find it. He knew exactly where he had left it, he said. Everybody looked for his book. He looked everywhere. Much time was spent looking for it. He was very angry. He found it just where he had left it. The streets were crowded. The people were shouting. The bands were playing. 11. The parade was just forming. The policemen were hard at work. The policemen were trying to keep order. 20. He never bites. The Urals are not high. They rise very gradually. Their scenery is very beautiful. There are few people living among them. They are in eastern Russia. Trains are always dirty. There is much dust always coming in the window. They are small and incommodious. I like boat travel much better. Boats are cleaner and larger. III. Collect from any source outside this book ten examples each of unusually well-handled examples of complex, compound, and compound-complex sentences. CHAPTER IV THE PARAGRAPH The Paragraph Thought. When the mind, working upon some subject or part of a subject, develops more ideas or more thoughts than can be expressed and fully developed in a single sentence, the result is a paragraph thought. It differs from the sentence thought simply in magnitude. Once we begin to let our mind work upon the paragraph thought, it expands rapidly, and requires a group of sentences for its proper development. A paragraph, then, is a group of sentences all of which pertain to one thought or to one division of that thought. It is partitioned or separated from other paragraph thoughts on a page by the indention of the first line slightly to the right of the margin. The page we are reading illustrates this partition. The Use of the Paragraph. When we were children, we spoke and wrote in short, disconnected sentences. This was because our thoughts were short and disconnected. Our minds either did not conceive paragraph thoughts, or were unable to develop them when they were conceived, for our expression always reflects our thinking processes. When we grew older, however, and our knowledge of things increased, we could no longer do justice to our thoughts by mere sentences. You and I most commonly express ourselves in paragraph form. Are we telling John about the game we saw? Well, of course we cannot do it in a single sentence; we must use |