William Stewart Ross

“ In Disjunctive Co-ordination the different independent statements of the compound sentence, although related to each other by position, are disjoined or distributed in meaning. The different members of the sentence are linked together by such conjunctions as either, or, neither, nor, otherwise, else; as, The dog would neither eat the hay, nor allow the ox to do so. My son, be anxious and persevere, otherwise it is impossible to secure success in life. In Antithetical Co-ordination one independent statement of the compound sentence is, in meaning, opposed or contrasted to another. ”

“ What is earthly rest or relaxation, what that release from toil, after which we so often sigh, but the faint shadow of the saints' everlasting rest—the repose of eternal purity—the calm of a spirit in which, not the tension of labour only, but the strain of the moral strife with sin has ceased—the rest of the soul in God?-Dr Caird. ”

“ By a process of measurement, which it is unnecessary here to explain, we have ascertained first the distance and then the magnitude of some of those bodies which roll in the firmament; that the sun, which presents itself to the eye under so diminutive a form, is really a globe exceeding many thousands of times the dimensions of the earth we inhabit; that the moon itself has the magnitude of a world.—Dr Chalmers. ”

“ A thought or sentence will thus be seen to necessarily contain the linking together of two ideas. For instance "rain" and "fall" are two ideas standing apart from each other. To link them together, so that the one becomes affirmed of the other, we say, "rain falls." This connecting link is called in logic the copula, and held to be one of the three essential parts of every sentence. But in the science of merely grammatical analysis, the copula is considered to be contained in the predicate. ”

“ Aristocracy has divorced those whom God has united—Father Labour and Mother Earth, those parents of our prosperity and wealth; it has made a very nation of paupers, and sent them to you, shop-keepers and artizans, to be maintained ”

“ A simple sentence contains only one subject (however extended that subject may be) , and one predicate or finite verb (however extended that finite verb may be) .
A finite verb is a verb not in the infinitive mood. A verb in the infinitive mood is simply a verbal noun, and cannot assert or perform any of the functions of the verb proper.
The predicate may consist of—
1. A single verb, as: Fire burns. 2. A verb with auxiliaries: The foe shall have been conquered. 3. A verb with adverbial extensions: Wolsey, after having served his king faithfully, fell into disfavor.
The Object. ”

“ Multitudes were very busy in pursuit of bubbles that glittered in their eyes, and danced before them, but often, why they thought themselves within the reach of them, their footing failed, and down they sank.—Addison. ”

“ Me at least for one, experience has convinced that, just as fresh wonder and confirmed conviction flow from examining the structure of the universe and its countless inhabitants, and their respective adaptations to the purposes of their being and to the use of man, the same results will flow in yet larger measure from tracing the footmarks of the Most High in the seemingly bewildered paths of human history.—Right Hon. ”

“ As tending to exercise the thinking and discriminative powers of the pupil, it is, perhaps, excelled by no branch of study with which we are acquainted. Practically, it accustoms the pupil to the exercise of a keen insight into the laws which regulate correct synthesis or composition, and to an intelligent appreciation of the elegances of style.
Moreover, grammatical analysis is generally one of the prescribed subjects in all our competitive and other examinations ”

“ For what I have done, imperfect as it is for want of health, and leisure to correct it, will be judged in after ages, and possible in the present, to be no dishonour to my native country, whose language and poetry would be esteemed abroad, if they were better understood.—Dryden. ”

“ Out of the creative industry of his imagination, taxing too heavily his great capacities for work, Scott constructed for a time monuments of rare literary genius, and ‸ produced vivid and life-like historical pictures, then mind and body succumbed to the influence of the excessive and exhausting labour. ”

“ I have found Scotchmen always prospering and always thriving, often the confidential advisers of high positions, even of rulers of State; and although I myself am inclined to attribute much to organisation and to race, I am bound to say I never met a Scotchman yet, even if he was the confidential adviser of a pasha, who did not tell me that he owed his rise to his parish school.—Right Hon. ”

“ No man is wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.—Selden.
He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes ”

“ In Scotland's institutions for religious and secular education will be found arrangements to admire and imitate; and in the reaction of knowledge upon the character and habits of her people, the philosopher may discover new lines of study, and the statesman new principles of government.—Sir David Brewster. ”

“ When it is said that men in manhood so often throw their Greek and Latin aside, and that this very fact shows the uselessness of their early studies, it is much more true to say that it shows how completely the literature of Greece and Rome could be forgotten if our system of education did uot keep up the knowledge of it.—Matthew Arnold. ”

“ As in the accompanying Example, show the Subject and Predicate, also the Object, if any, in the sentences which follow.
Example:—
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day.
The wild-bees, humming, drowsily, suck sweet nectar from the flowers of summer.
Sentences:—
Charles Dickens died of apoplexy.
Man was made to mourn.
Milton wrote "Paradise Lost" when advanced in life. ”