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CONTAINING

RULES OF SYNTAX AND MODELS

FOR

ANALYZING AND TRANSPOSING;

TOGETHER WITH

SELECTIONS OF PROSE AND POETRY

FROM WRITERS OF STANDARD AUTHORITY.

BY ALLEN H. WELD, A. M.

LUTHOR OF LATIN LESSONS AND READER, AND AN ENGLISH GRAMMAR.

PORTLAND:

PUBLISHED BY BAILEY AND NOYES,
BOSTON: CROSBY & AINSWORTH.

PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTI & CO.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in e year 1847, by ALLEN H. WELD, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Maine.

SUBJECT.

SYNOPSIS

The SUBJECT of a sentence

may be a noun or pronoun; a
verh in the infinitive; a clause:
or any word or letter of which
something can be affirmed.

OF GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS.

See Gram. § 35, 36, 37, 28, 34, or Parsing Book, pages 5, 6.

MODIFIERS OF THE SUBJECT.

The MODIFIERS of the subject may
be a noun in apposition; an adjec-
tive, a preposition with its object
(adjunct); a participle; a verb in the
infinitive; a relative clause; and rare-
ly an adverb.

The Subject, whose meaning is modified by one or more words, is called the MODIFIED (or logical) SUBJECT.

PREDICATE.

The PREDICATE of a
sentence may be a verb;
or the verb be with any
word or expression con-
nected with it, to com-
plete an assertion.

MODIFIERS OF THE PREDICATE.

158.65.865 EducT

The MODIFIERS of the predicate my
be a noun in the objective case, (if A
verb is transitive;) a verb in the infin
tive; an adverb; a preposition with
its object (adjunct); a clause; and
rarely an adjective.

The Predicate, whose meaning is modified by one or more is called the MODIFIED (or logical, PREDICATE.

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MODIFIERS OF THE PRED

a council at Cordova. from a distance, the peril of the king.

of the good.

from your own admission
verdant, in the winter.
from a Saxon word.
to-morrow.

to be accommodated.

MAR

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