SENTENCE 



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SEPOY REBELLION 



COMPLEX SENTENCE : They who travel widely 

 acquire a broad, practical education. 



Thev I acquire I education 



who 



travel 



Explanation: The independent clause is shown 

 on the heavy line, the subordinate clause on the 

 lighter line. The dotted line indicates that who 

 not only serves as the subject of the subordinate 

 clause, but forms the connecting word between the 

 two clauses. 



Characteristics of a Good Sentence. There 

 are five principal points of excellence which a 

 sentence must possess to qualify as truly good 

 English. First, it must be grammatically and 

 idiomatically correct. Second, it must make 

 its meaning absolutely clear. It must be force- 

 ful and emphatic. It must make smooth, easy 

 and euphonious speech or reading, without an- 

 noying repetitions or grating sound combina- 

 tions. And, finally, it must have unity, present- 

 ing one thought completely, instead of being a 

 jumble of unrelated ideas loosely bound by 

 conjunctions. 



Common Errors. The principal errors that 

 mar the sentences of our everyday speech have 

 been discussed very fully in the articles on the 

 parts of speech and other grammar topics. See 

 list under GRAMMAR. L.M.B. 



Consult Bloomfield's Introduction to the Study 

 of Language. 



Outline on the Sentence 



I. Definition 



II. Capitalization and punctuation 

 III. Parts of a sentence 



(a) Subject 



(b) Predicate 



(c) Modifiers 

 IV. Classification 



(a) As to meaning 



1. Declarative 



2. Interrogative 



3. Imperative 



4. Exclamatory forms of these 



(b) As to structure 



1. Simple 



2. Compound 



3. Complex 



4. Complex-compound 



V. Order of subject and predicate 



(a) Natural order 



(b) Transposed or inverted order 

 VI. Sentence analysis 



(a) What it means 



(b) Type sentence analyzed (under 



ANALYSIS) 



VII. Diagram of a sentence 



(a) Definition 



(b) Type sentences diagrammed 

 VIII. Characteristics of a good sentence 



. (a) Grammatical correctness 



(b) Clearness 



(c) Emphasis 



(d) Ease and harmony 



(e) Unity 



SEOUL, sehool' , or sah' ool, the capital of 

 the Japanese province of Chosen (Korea), is 

 situated in the western part of the country, 

 about nineteen miles to the northeast of Che- 

 mulpo, its port on the Yellow Sea, and about 

 three miles north of the Han (or Kan) River. 

 A wall eleven miles in circumference and 

 pierced by eight gates surrounds this old city, 

 which became the capital of. the kingdom of 

 Korea over six centuries ago. Seoul is typical 

 of those Oriental municipalities into which 

 modern innovations are slowly making their 

 way. Electric lights, an electric car line which 

 extends to three points outside the city, a tele- 

 graph station and a telephone system represent 

 the new era, but the shabby, low dwelling 

 houses and narrow, crooked streets of old Seoul 

 are still in evidence. 



A group of former royal palaces surrounded 

 by attractive lawns and gardens, a Roman 

 Catholic cathedral and a temple to Confucius 

 are the buildings of chief interest The city is 

 connected by railway with Chemulpo, Fusan 

 and Wiju. It contains a government school for 

 English students, two hospitals operated by 

 American missionaries, and one large Japanese 

 hospital under government control. Twenty- 

 three Japanese and two Chosen newspapers are 

 published here, besides an English daily owned 

 by the government. Population in 1911, 223,- 

 381. See CHOSEN. 



SEPIA, se'pia, a dark brown pigment pre- 

 pared from the secretion found in the ink bags 

 of certain species of cuttlefish (which see). As 

 soon as a fish is captured its ink sac is removed, 

 and the dark fluid is dried at once to prevent 

 decay. The secretion, in the form of powder, 

 is next treated with caustic alkali and acids, 

 washed and dried. The resulting dark brown 

 sepia is used to a limited extent in the prepara- 

 tion of water colors and drawing ink. 



SEPOY REBELLION, se'poi rebel'yun, a 

 mutiny of native troops in India, beginning in 

 May, 1857, and followed in 1858 by the transfer 

 of the government of India to the British sover- 

 eign. In its effects it may be. regarded as the 

 most important episode in the history of British 

 India. The underlying cause was discontent 



