Famous Sentences and Their Structures

Famous Sentences and Their Structures

Famous Sentences and Their Structures

Analyze the structure and syntax of the sentences in each section. [Bracket dependent clauses.](Syntax: the way in which words are put together to form phrases, clauses, or sentences)

Part A. Whichstructure do these sentences have in common? What are their syntactical distinctions? Part AStructure: ______

  1. We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Preamble to the United States Constitution

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  1. Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. Mark Twain

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  1. There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Thomas Jefferson

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  1. All our words from loose using have lost their edge. Ernest Hemingway

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  1. In teaching others we teach ourselves. Proverb

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  1. Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. Victor Hugo

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  1. Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger. Thornton Wilder

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  1. You can do anything, but not everything. David Allen

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9. Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Famous Sentences and Their Structures, p. 2

Part B. Which structure do these sentences have in common? What are their syntactical distinctions? PartB Structure: ______

  1. Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. Chinese proverb

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  1. Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. Chinese proverb

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  1. Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still. Chinese proverb

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  1. Do not wait; the time will never be ''just right.'' Napoleon Hill

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5. Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius
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Part C. Whichstructure do these sentences have in common? What are their syntactical distinctions? Part C Structure: ______

  1. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. Mark Twain

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  1. When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him. Franklin D. Roosevelt

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  1. You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. Wayne Gretzky

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  1. You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Gandhi

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  1. If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us. Anonymous

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Famous Sentences and Their Structures, p. 3

Part D. Whichstructure do these sentences have in common? What are their syntactical distinctions? Part D Structure: ______

  1. Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Mahatma Gandhi

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  1. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean. Lin-Chi

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  1. We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle

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  1. Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. Oscar Wilde

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  1. When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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Identify the structure and any syntactical distinctions in the sentences below.

  1. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.

Marcel Proust

  1. To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail. Abraham Maslow
  2. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

  1. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Abraham Lincoln
  2. Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Mark Twain
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