--_Contract these sentences_:--
1. Mirth should be the embroidery of conversation, but it should not be the
web.
2. It is called so, but it is improperly called so.
3. Was Cabot the discoverer of America, or was he not the discoverer of
America?
4. William the Silent has been likened to Washington, and he has justly
been likened to him.
5. It was his address that pleased me, and it was not his dress that
pleased me.
A compound sentence may sometimes be changed to a complex sentence without
materially changing the sense.
+Example+.--_Take care of the minutes_, and the hours will take care of
themselves = _If you take care of the minutes_, the hours will take care of
themselves. (Notice that the imperative form adds force.)
+Direction+.--_Change these compound sentences to complex sentences_:--
1. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
2. Govern your passions, or they will govern you.
3. I heard that you wished to see me, and I lost no time in coming.
4. He converses, and at the same time he plays a difficult piece of music.
5. He was faithful, and he was rewarded.
+Direction+.--_Change one of the independent clauses in each of these
sentences to a dependent clause, and then change the dependent clause to a
participle phrase_:--
+Model+.
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