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ANALYSIS [Par. 247-249.

247 3. A Compound Sentence. -A Sentence
made up of Co-ordinate Sentences is called a Compound Sentence:"John struck Thomas, and Thomas struck John
again."
248 4. The Principal Sentence. — When a nunmber of Sentences are connected by Conjunctions that
are not Co-ordinate, the Sentence that is not introduced by a Conjunction is called the Principal Sentence.
249 5. Subordinate Sentences.- Sentences colznected with a Principal Sentence by Conjunctions
that are not Co-ordinate are called Sub-ordinate.1
The Sub-ordinate Conjunctions are "that "(introducing (1) Subject or Object, (2) Purpose, (3) Result); ' because," " when," " how," " since," " as " in
the sense of " since," " after," " before," "while,"
&c.; and they are so called because " purpose,"
"time," " circumstance," &c., are regarded as being
Sub-ordinate to the statement, question, or command expressed in the Principal Sentence.
"Before (Subord.) he had heard the evidence (Princip.)
he asserted that (Subord.) the prisoner was guilty."
The mark of a Sub-ordinate Sentence is this, that
1 Implied Sub-ordinate Sentences are sometimes introduced without Conj unctions, by means of Interrogative and Relative Pronouns
and Adverbs, e.g. " He asked what John said," where the italicized
words imply the Sentence " What did John say? " See Par. 28.