Omission of the Conjunction “and”.

The “and” can be left out, when the aim of the writer is to give a string of sentences, all bearing upon one central fact. Only the last sentence or the last verb should have and prefixed to it in such a case.

The uses and power of steam have been thus described, one single word standing as subject to no less than twenty-six Finite verbs:

What will not the steam-engine do? It propels, elevates, lowers, pumps, drains, pulls, drives, blasts digs, cuts, saws, planes, bores, blows, forges, hammers, files, polishes, rivets, cards, spins, winds, weaves, coins, prints, and does more things than I can think of or enumerate.

Examples of multiple sentences analysed:

(1) His greatest enemy as well as his best friends declared him to be innocent of the fault laid to his charge.

(2) Either you or your son will sign his name at once on that paper.

(3) He, not I, is certainly the author of that plan.

Ex.5. Double and Multiple sentences to be analysed. First write out each simple sentence in full (supplying all the omitted words), and then analyse according to the model:

1. The Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
2. Little Betty has lost her sheep, and can’t tell where to find them.
3. She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed; for they had left their tails behind them.
4. The hornet is our declared enemy, and a very troublesome one it is; however, it is well to make its acquaintance; for by doing so we shall be forced to admire it, and even to admire the instrument used by it for wounding us.
5. The life of some insects is brief, but very active; the female lives for two or three weeks, lays her eggs, and dies.
6. In wet weather the water rises and floats the eggs of the mosquito, producing an abundant harvest, whereas in dry seasons many eggs fail to reach the water, and so dry up and perish.
7. The barbers of Singapore have to shave heads and clean ears; for which latter operation they have a great array of tweezers, picks, and brushes.
8. Others carry a portable cooking-apparatus and serve up a meal of fish, rice, and vegetables for two or three halfpence; while porters and boatmen waiting to be hired are seen the other side.
9. In this way the spider lived in a precarious state for more than a week, and nature seemed to have fitted it for such a life; otherwise it could not have subsisted upon a single fly for so long a time.

10. Howard was then led to inquire into the condition of more distant jails; for which purpose he visited every large jail in England, and many of those in Scotland and Ireland.

11. At Venice he went with the greatest cheerfulness into the sick-house, where lie remained as usual for forty days, and thus exposed his life for the sake of his fellow-creatures.

12. The diver, on descending into the water, seizes the rope with the toes of his right foot, and takes hold of the bag with those of his left; nor does he expect to remain under water for less than two minutes.

13. The astrologers promise success to the divers; for they expect a liberal gift of pearls as a reward for the happy sense of confidence imparted by them to those men.

14. Sir Ralph the Rover tore his hair,

And beat his breast in his despair;

The waves rush in on every side,

And the ship sinks down beneath the tide.

15. We had a boat at our stern just before the storm, but she was staved by dashing against the ship’s rudder.

16. The ranger in his couch lay warm

And heard him plead in vain;

But oft amid December's storm

He’ll hear that voice again.