Exercises
(_a_) Bring up sentences containing five examples of coördinate
conjunctions.
(_b_) Bring up sentences containing three examples of correlatives.
(_c_) Bring up sentences containing ten subordinate conjunctions.
(_d_) Tell whether the italicized words in the following sentences are
conjunctions or adverbs; classify them if conjunctions:--
1. _Yet_ these were often exhibited throughout our city.
2. No one had _yet_ caught his character.
3. _After_ he was gone, the lady called her servant.
4. And they lived happily forever _after_.
5. They, _however_, hold a subordinate rank.
6. _However_ ambitious a woman may be to command admiration abroad,
her real merit is known at home.
7. _Whence_ else could arise the bruises which I had received?
8. He was brought up for the church, _whence_ he was occasionally
called the Dominie.
9. And _then_ recovering, she faintly pressed her hand.
10. In what point of view, _then_, is war not to be regarded with
horror?
11. The moth fly, _as_ he shot in air, Crept under the leaf, and hid
her there.
12. Besides, _as_ the rulers of a nation are _as_ liable _as_ other
people to be governed by passion and prejudice, there is little
prospect of justice in permitting war.
13. _While_ a faction is a minority, it will remain harmless.
14. _While_ patriotism glowed in his heart, wisdom blended in his
speech her authority with her charms.
15. _Hence_ it is highly important that the custom of war should be
abolished.
16. The raft and the money had been thrown near her, none of the
lashings having given way; _only_ what is the use of a guinea amongst
tangle and sea gulls?
17. _Only_ let his thoughts be of equal scope, and the frame will suit
the picture.
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