How to parse. ...

Par. 241, 242.] OF SENTENCES. 155 Phrases out of Infinitives; then passing to (2), let him use the Conjunction "that," and so on. 241 2. Adjective Phrases or Clauses:1. The monkey with the long tail. 2. The monkey that has the long tail. 3. A man without principle. 4. A man of honor. 5. Sing for the oak-tree, the monarch of the wood. 6. The light of the sun. 7. The moon's orbit. 8. The book belonging to my uncle. 9. The cow in the paddock. 10. The business in which I am engaged. 11. The painter of that celebrated picture. 12. This is an action to be deplored. 13. I have water to wash (i.e. washing water), but none to drink (i.e. drinking water). 14. The boy at the top. EXERCISE. As with the Noun Phrases, so with the Adjective Phrases, the pupil should construct other phrases according to the several models above. 242 3. Adverbial Phrases or Clauses:-' 1. Knowing 2 this (i.e. since I knew this) I was not surprised. 2. Smuprised at his answer, I knew not what to reply. 3. When, wshile, after, before, as, since, I perceived 7my mistake, I apol1 Note that an Adverbial Clause, e.g. "when I came," becomes, if the Conj unction is removed, a Sentence. 2 One of the first things to be (lone in the Analysis of Sentences is to understand the difference between (1) a Participle implying a Conjunction, and (as here) representing an Adrerbial Clause, and (2) a Participle implying the Relative Pronoun " that," and representing an Adjectival Clause.

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