Friday, January 16, 2015

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




  • Simple Sentence - We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.

  • Compound Sentence - He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat our their substances.

  • Complex - He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

  • Compound/Complex - He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

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