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"A work on english grammar and composition"


+Where+ may connect a clause expressing +place+, an +adjective+ clause, or
a +noun+ clause.
12. No one knows the place where Moses was buried.
13. Where Moses was buried is still a question.
14. No one has been where Moses was buried.
+While+ may connect a clause expressing +time+ or +concession+, or it may
connect +co-ordinate+ clauses.
15. Napoleon was a genius, while Wellington was a man of talents.
16. While we sleep, the body is rebuilt.
17. While Charles I. had many excellent traits, he was a bad king.
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LESSON 106.
CONNECTIVES--CONTINUED.
Analysis.
+Direction+.--_Use the appropriate connectives, and change these compound
sentences to complex without changing the meaning, and then analyze
them_:--
(Let one dependent clause be an adjective clause; let three express cause;
five, condition; and two, concession.)
1. Caesar put the proffered crown aside, but he would fain have had it.
2. Take away honor and imagination and poetry from war, and it becomes
carnage.
3. His crime has been discovered, and he must flee.
4. You must eat, or you will die.
5. Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom.
6. Let but the commons hear this testament, and they would go and kiss dead
Caesar's wounds.


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