Exercise 2

In the following sentences, note which are the noun clauses and which

are the adjective clauses and which are the adverb clauses. The verb in

the subordinate clause is in italics.

1. Life is what we _make_ it.

2. We acquire the strength that we _overcome_.

3. While he _slept_ the enemy came.

4. All that he _does_ is to distribute what others _produce_.

5. When faith _is lost_, when honor _dies_, the man is dead.

6. Thrice is he armed who _hath_ his quarrel just; he is naked though

he _be locked_ up in steel whose conscience with injustice is

_corrupted_.

7. When strength and justice _are_ true yoke fellows, where can we

find a mightier pair than they?

8. You will gain a good reputation if you _endeavor_ to be what you

_desire_ to appear.

9. Live as though life _were_ earnest and life will be so.

10. He that _loveth_ makes his own the grandeur that he _loves_.

11. Who _does_ the best his circumstance _allows_ does well; angels

could do no more.

12. He is not worthy of the honeycomb that _shuns_ the hive because

the bees _have_ stings.

13. We always may be what we _might have been_.

14. Rich gifts wax poor when givers _prove_ unkind.

15. Let me make the songs of the people and I care not who _makes_ the

laws.

16. Attention is the stuff that memory _is made_ of.

17. A great writer has said that grace _is_ beauty in action; I say

that justice _is_ truth in action.

18. If we do not _plant_ knowledge when young it will give us no shade

when we _are_ old.

19. You can no more exercise your reason if you _live_ in constant

dread of laughter than you _can enjoy_ your life if you _live_ in

constant dread and terror of death.

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