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EXAMPLES.
SIMPLE SENTENCE (Involved).[1]
| Sentence. | Kind of Sentence. |
Subject. | Predicate. | Object. | Extension of Subject. |
Extension of Predicate. |
Extension of Object. |
| Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled, and still where many a garden flower grows wild; there, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, the village preacher's modest mansion rose. | Principal sentence. | Mansion. | Rose. | The village preacher's modest. | Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled, and still where many a garden flower grows wild; there, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose,—adverbial clauses of place. |
- ↑ Sentences of this order of construction, although they contain more than one finite verb, do not well admit of being divided into separate sentences. We could suppose "garden smiles" to be a simple sentence, but the extension of predicate would be "near yonder copse where once." It will be seen that a sentence made up of the words in inverted commas would be incomplete and faulty in construction. The same remark applies to the two succeeding clauses. In sentences of this kind the modifying clauses are so intimately associated with the principal sentence as to be inseparable. The construction may be considered as that of a more or less involved Simple Sentence, although it may, after the ordinary matter, be analysed and construed as a Complex Sentence, if considered preferable.
