Sunday, January 18, 2015

Declaration of Independence (Simple, compound, complex, and compound/complex sentences)

Here are the examples I was able to find for the different types of sentences:


  • Simple: We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. (Declaration of Independence par. 5)

  • Compound: He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. (Declaration of Independence par. 3)

  • Complex: He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. (Declaration of Independence par. 3)

  • Compound/Complex: We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. (Declaration of Independence par. 5)


Source: Declaration of Independence. 1776.

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