ther example is, "Only the star
dazzles; the planet has a faint, moon-like ray" (adversative).
[Sidenote: _Study the thought._]
386. The one point that will give trouble is the variable use of
some connectives; as _but_, _for_, _yet_, _while_ (_whilst_),
_however_, _whereas_, etc. Some of these are now conjunctions, now
adverbs or prepositions; others sometimes cooerdinate, sometimes
subordinate conjunctions.
The student must watch _the logical connection_ of the members of the
sentence, and not the form of the connective.
Exercise.
Of the following illustrative sentences, tell which are compound, and
which complex:--
1. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense;
for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost.
2. I no longer wish to meet a good I do not earn, for example, to find
a pot of buried gold.
3. Your goodness must have some edge to it--else it is none.
4. Man does not stand in awe of man, nor is his genius admonished to
stay at home, but it goes abroad to beg a cup of water of the urns of
other men.
5. A man cannot speak but he judges himself.
6. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity, yet
when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and
life.
7. I thought that it was a Sunday morning in May; that it was Easter
Sunday, and as yet very early in the morning.
8. We denote the primary wisdom as intuition, whilst all later
teachings are tuitions.
9. Whilst the world is thus dual, so is every one of its parts.
10. They measure the esteem of each other by what each has, and not by
what each is.
11. For everything you have missed, you have gained something else;
and for everything you gain, you lose something.
12. I sometimes seemed to have lived for seventy or one hundred years
in one night; nay, I sometimes had feelings representative of a
millennium, passed in that time, or, however, of a duration far beyond
the limits of experience.
13. However some may think him wanting in zeal, the most fanatical
can find no taint of apostasy in any measure of his.
14. In this manner, from a happy yet often pensive child, he grew up
to be a mild, quiet, unobtrusive boy, and sun-browned with labor in
the fields, but with more intelligence than is seen in many lads from
the schools.
OUTLINE FOR ANALYZING COMPOUND SENTENCES.
387. (i) Separate it into its main members. (2) Analyze each complex
member as in Sec. 38
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