11. Jonah, the prophet, preached to the inhabitants of Nineveh.




LESSON 57.

COMPLEX SENTENCES.

THE ADJECTIVE CLAUSE.

+Hints for Oral Instruction+.--A word-modifier may sometimes be expanded
into a phrase or into an expression that asserts.

+T+.--_A wise man will be honored_. Expand _wise_ into a phrase, and give
me the sentence. +P+.--A man _of wisdom_ will be honored. +T+.--Expand
_wise_ into an expression that asserts, join this to _man_, as a modifier,
and then give me the entire sentence. +P+.--A man _who is wise_ will be
honored.

+T+.--You see that the same quality may be expressed in three ways--A
_wise_ man, A man _of wisdom_, A man _who is wise_.

Let the pupils give similar examples.

+T+.--In the sentence, _A man who is wise will be honored_, the word _who_
stands for what? +P+.--For the noun _man_. +T+.--Then what part of speech
is it? +P+.--A pronoun.

+T+.--Put the noun _man_ in the place of the pronoun _who_, and then give