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"A work on english grammar and composition"


+TO THE TEACHER+.--If the pupils lack maturity, or if it is found necessary
to abridge this work in order to conform to a prescribed course of study,
the six following Lessons may be omitted. The authors consider these
exercises very profitable, but their omission will occasion no break in the
course.
* * * * *
LESSON 101.
COMPOSITION--CONNECTIVES.
+Direction+.--_Write twenty compound sentences whose clauses shall be
joined by connectives named in the three subdivisions of co-ordinate
connectives_.
* * * * *
LESSON 102.
COMPOSITION--CONNECTIVES--CONTINUED.
+Direction+.--_Write twenty complex sentences whose clauses shall be joined
by connectives of adjective clauses, and by connectives of adverb clauses
of time, place, degree, and manner_.
* * * * *
LESSON 103.
COMPOSITION--CONNECTIVES--CONTINUED.
+Direction+.--_Write twenty complex sentences whose clauses shall be joined
by connectives of adverb clauses of real cause, evidence, purpose,
condition, and concession, and by connectives of noun clauses_.
* * * * *
LESSON 104.
CONNECTIVES.
Analysis.
+Direction+.--_Tell what kinds of clauses follow the connectives below, and
what are the usual connectives of such clauses, and then analyze the
sentences_:--
+As+ may connect a clause expressing +manner+, +time+, +degree+, +cause+,
or +evidence+.


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