Tuesday, January 20, 2015

The Different Sentence Types Found in The Declaration of Independance

The Simple Sentence:
"He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good." - The Declaration of Independence

The Compound Sentence:
"He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance." - The Declaration of Independence 
The Complex Sentence:
"He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within." - The Declaration of Independence 
The Compound-Complex Sentence:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." - The Declaration of Independence



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