1. Slang is vulgar.

1. Slang is vulgar.

Slang | is \ vulgar ==========|================= |

+Explanation+.--The line standing for the attribute complement is, like the object line, a continuation of the predicate line; but notice that the line which separates the incomplete predicate from the complement slants toward the subject to show that the complement is an attribute of it.

+Oral Analysis+.--_Vulgar_ is the attribute complement, completing the predicate and expressing a quality of slang; _is vulgar_ is the entire predicate.

2. The sea is fascinating and treacherous. 3. The mountains are grand, tranquil, and lovable. 4. The Saxon words in English are simple, homely, and substantial. 5. The French and the Latin words in English are elegant, dignified, and artificial. [Footnote: The assertion in this sentence is true only in the main.] 6. The ear is the ever-open gateway of the soul. 7. The verb is the life of the sentence. 8. Good-breeding is surface-Christianity. 9. A dainty plant is the ivy green.

+Explanation+.--The subject names that of which the speaker says something. The terms in which he says it,--the predicate,--he, of course, assumes that the hearer already understands. Settle, then, which--plant or ivy--Dickens supposed the reader to know least about, and which, therefore, Dickens was telling him about; and you settle which word--_plant_ or _ivy_--is the subject. (Is it not the writer's poetical conception of "the green ivy" that the reader is supposed not to possess?)

10. The highest outcome of culture is simplicity. 11. Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good-breeding. 12. The north wind is full of courage, and puts the stamina of endurance into a man. 13. The west wind is hopeful, and has promise and adventure in it. 14. The east wind is peevishness and mental rheumatism and grumbling, and curls one up in the chimney-corner. 15. The south wind is full of longing and unrest and effeminate suggestions of luxurious ease.

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LESSON 30.

ATTRIBUTE COMPLEMENTS--CONTINUED.

Analysis.