ANALYSIS OF SENTENCES.
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predicate, two or more predicates with the same subject, object, or extensions; as,
Coplative (common subject)—
- Temperance prolongs, and ‸ ennobles our lives.
Disjunctive (common predicate)—
- Neither the master ‸ nor the pupil were at fault.
Antithetical (common object)—
- The sun shines upon the evil, but also upon the just.
Illative (common extension)—
- Out of the creative industry of his imagination, taxing too heavily his great capacities for work, Scott constructed for a time monuments of rare literary genius, and ‸ produced vivid and life-like historical pictures, then mind and body succumbed to the influence of the excessive and exhausting labour.
Exercises.
As in the accompanying Example, show the Subject and Predicate, also the Object, if any, in the sentences which follow.
Example:—
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day.
| Subject. | Predicate. | Object. |
| curfew. | tolls. | knell. |
The wild-bees, humming, drowsily, suck sweet nectar from the flowers of summer.
| Subject. | Predicate. | Object. |
| bees. | suck. | nectar. |
