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7. Men are carrying umbrellas; it is raining.
8. Have ye brave sons? look in the next fierce brawl to see them die.
9. The Senate knows this, the Consul sees it, and yet the traitor lives.
10. Take away the grandeur of his cause, and Washington is a rebel instead
of the purest of patriots.
11. The diamond is a sparkling gem, and it is pure carbon.
+Direction+.--_Two of the dependent clauses below express condition, and
three express concession. Place an appropriate conjunction before each, and
then analyze the sentences_:--
12. Should we fail, it can be no worse for us.
13. Had the Plantagenets succeeded in France, there would never have been
an England.
14. Were he my brother, I could do no more for him.
15. Were I so disposed, I could not gratify the reader.
16. Were I [Admiral Nelson] to die this moment, _more frigates_ would be
found written on my heart.
* * * * *
LESSON 107.
CONSTRUCTION OF CONNECTIVES.
+Caution+.--Some conjunctions and conjunctive adverbs may stand in
correlation with other words. _And_ may be accompanied by _both_; _as_, by
_as_, by _so_, or by _such_; _but_ (_but also_ and _but likewise_), by _not
only_; _if_, by _then_; _nor_, by _neither_; _or_, by _either_ or by
_whether_; _that_, by _so_; _the_, by _the_; _though_, by _yet_; _when_, by
_then_; and _where_, by _there_.


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