Chapter XI

THE COMPOUND SENTENCE

60. Classes of Compound Sentence. Just as we have found that there are different kinds of simple sentences, so we may see, by examining the following, that there are different classes of compound sentences:

1. All flesh is grass and all its glory fades.

2. My roof shall always shelter and protect you.

3. Pitt was the pilot who guided the ship of state through a stormy sea and she weathered the storm.

I. We notice that in the first sentence there are two thoughts expressed and that each element, (thought subject, thought predicate, and thought relation) of each thought is expressed separately or by separate words. We call this kind of compound sentence a regular compound

sentence.

2. In the second sentence, we have two coordinate, independent thoughts expressed also; thus, My roof shall always shelter you. My roof shall always protect you.

In these two thoughts, however, there are some common elements or some ideas which are the same in both. The ideas, my, roof, shall, always, and you, are common to the thoughts.

In the sentence, My roof shall always shelter and protect you, these common elements of the thoughts are expressed but once. We call this kind of sentence an abridged compound sentence.

3. The third sentence does not differ from the other two except in. the fact, that it expresses a subordinate thought, who guided the ship of state through a stormy sea.

We call this kind of compound sentence a compound-complex sentence because, while it is compound, in that it expresses co-ordinate, independent thoughts, it is also like a complex sentence, in that it expresses a subordinate thought. The compound-complex sentence may express more than one subordinate thought.

61. The Regular Compound Sentence. This would be defined as follows: A regular compound sentence is a compound sentence in which all the elements of all the thoughts are expressed separately; as, William Penn was friendly to the Indians and Pennsylvania was not molested by them.

62. The Abridged Compound Sentence. This may be defined as follows: An abridged compound sentence is a compound sentence in which the common element or elements of the thoughts are expressed but once; as, Harrison was a lawyer and a statesman..

63. The Compound-Complex Sentence. This

may be defined as follows: A compound complex sentence is a compound sentence which expresses one or more subordinate thoughts; as, When we were ready we began the work and we did not rest until it was completed.

Exercise 29

Tell what kind of compound sentence each of the following is, and why:

1. Beautiful things ennoble and refine the character. 2. Science awakens man's perceptions and language quickens his judgment.

3. A soft answer turneth away wrath, but foolish words stir up strife.

4. Hawthorne, who was a very sensitive man, shunned a crowd, but he was fond of friends.

5. This way is easy, but the other is steep.

6. The windows of the soul admit light and resist harmful influences.

7. He who would be served in his youth and loves himself most knows no other king; he is thoroughly selfish.

8. He worked hard to keep the wolf from the door but he succeeded only partially.

9. I gained an insulated rock, and beheld a broad sheet of brilliant and unbroken foam, not shooting in a curved line from the top of the precipice, but falling headlong down from height to depth. -Hawthorne.

10. The bridge was tremulous beneath me, and marked

the tremor of the solid earth.

-Hawthorne.
II. The south wind searches for the flowers

Whose fragrance late he bore;

And sighs to find them in the wood

And by the stream no more.-Bryant.

13. Tread softly and speak low;

For the old year lies a-dying.-Tennyson.

Work in Composition

The Review (Continued)

THE BEGGAR MAID

Her arms across her breast she laid:
She was more fair than words can say:
Barefooted came the beggar maid

Before the king Cophetua.

In robe and crown the king stept down,
To meet and greet her on her way:

"It is no wonder," said the lords,

As swims the moon in clouded skies,
She in her poor attire was seen:
One praised her ankles, one her eyes,
One her dark hair and lovesome mien.
So sweet a face, such angel grace,
In all the land had never been:

Cophetua sware a royal oath :

"This beggar maid shall be my queen!"

Read "The Beggar Maid."

-Alfred Tennyson.

What was Tennyson's purpose in writing this poem? What persons, places, time and occasion has he used to show this purpose? Describe the chief character. Tell the story of the poem. If you like the poem, tell why.

Outline a review of the poem. What will you

tell in your introductory paragraph? What will be the topics of some of the other paragraphs? What will you tell in the final paragraph? Write a review of the poem.

In outlining a paper, decide what you want in your introduction, and then see that the topics of your other paragraphs are in some way explanatory of what has been suggested there.

Read your paper. Is it interesting? Are its parts so related that they are smooth and easily understood?

THE HEIGHT OF THE RIDICULOUS

I wrote some lines once on a time

In wondrous merry mood,

And thought, as usual, men would say
They were exceeding good.

They were so queer, so very queer,
I laughed as I would die;

Albeit, in the general way,

A sober man am I.

I called my servant, and he came :

How kind it was of him

To mind a slender man like me,
He of the mighty limb!

"These to the printer," I exclaimed,

And, in my humorous way,

I added (as a trifling jest),
"There'll be the devil to pay."