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"A work on english grammar and composition"

These three dependent clauses in the
complex clause modifier, like the three words and the three phrases in the
complex word modifier and the complex phrase modifier, are not co-ordinate,
or of equal rank.
_Mary married Philip; but Elizabeth would not marry, although Parliament
frequently urged it, and the peace of England demanded it_. This is a
compound sentence, composed of the simple clause which precedes _but_ and
the complex clause which follows it--the complex clause being composed of
an independent clause and two dependent clauses, one co-ordinate with the
other, and the two connected by _and_.

Analysis.
The +clauses+ of +complex+ and +compound+ sentences may themselves be
+complex+ or +compound+.
insects
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` ` `
` ` `which | are admired
` ` `=====|=============
` ` | '
` ` ' x
` ` .....
` ` '
` `which | are decorated
` ======|===============
` | '
` 'and
` ........
` '
` which | soar '
`======|=======
|
hour | had passed
=========|=============
\The |` '
` ' and
` .


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