Exercise 2: Subordination in the Complex Sentence

● Exercise 2 ●

Identify each subordinate clause in the following sentences, and explain its effect. Pay special attention to the placement of the subordinate clauses. All examples are direct quotations from the readings in this chapter.

  1. It was not until 1498, when he explored what is now Venezuela, that Columbus realized he had touched upon a continent.—N. Scott Momaday

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    Exercise 2: Subordination in the Complex Sentence: Identify each subordinate clause in the following sentences, and explain its effect. Pay special attention to the placement of the subordinate clauses. All examples are direct quotations from the readings in this chapter. - It was not until 1498, when he explored what is now Venezuela, that Columbus realized he had touched upon a continent.—N. Scott Momaday
  2. It is this term, “New World,” with which I should like to begin this discussion, not only because it is everywhere a common designation of the Americas but also because it represents one of the great anomalies of history.—N. Scott Momaday

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    Exercise 2: Subordination in the Complex Sentence: Identify each subordinate clause in the following sentences, and explain its effect. Pay special attention to the placement of the subordinate clauses. All examples are direct quotations from the readings in this chapter. - It is this term, “New World,” with which I should like to begin this discussion, not only because it is everywhere a common designation of the Americas but also because it represents one of the great anomalies of history.—N. Scott Momaday
  3. Whenever I hear of protests about the Columbus Day holiday—protests that tend to pit Native Americans against Italian Americans—I remember these tragedies that occurred so soon before the first Columbus Day holiday, and I shake my head.—William J. Connell

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    Exercise 2: Subordination in the Complex Sentence: Identify each subordinate clause in the following sentences, and explain its effect. Pay special attention to the placement of the subordinate clauses. All examples are direct quotations from the readings in this chapter. - Whenever I hear of protests about the Columbus Day holiday—protests that tend to pit Native Americans against Italian Americans—I remember these tragedies that occurred so soon before the first Columbus Day holiday, and I shake my head.—William J. Connell
  4. I teach college kids, and since they tend to be more skeptical about Columbus Day than younger students, it’s nice to point out that the first Columbus Day had a “college division.”—William J. Connell

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    Exercise 2: Subordination in the Complex Sentence: Identify each subordinate clause in the following sentences, and explain its effect. Pay special attention to the placement of the subordinate clauses. All examples are direct quotations from the readings in this chapter. - I teach college kids, and since they tend to be more skeptical about Columbus Day than younger students, it’s nice to point out that the first Columbus Day had a “college division.”—William J. Connell
  5. But indeed these things are nothing; if God should withdraw his hand, they would avail no more to keep you from falling, than the thin air to hold up a person that is suspended in it.—Jonathan Edwards

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    Exercise 2: Subordination in the Complex Sentence: Identify each subordinate clause in the following sentences, and explain its effect. Pay special attention to the placement of the subordinate clauses. All examples are direct quotations from the readings in this chapter. - But indeed these things are nothing; if God should withdraw his hand, they would avail no more to keep you from falling, than the thin air to hold up a person that is suspended in it.—Jonathan Edwards
  6. Whenever any American’s life is taken by another American unnecessarily—whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence—whenever we tear at the fabric of life which another man has painfully and clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole nation is degraded.—Robert F. Kennedy

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    Exercise 2: Subordination in the Complex Sentence: Identify each subordinate clause in the following sentences, and explain its effect. Pay special attention to the placement of the subordinate clauses. All examples are direct quotations from the readings in this chapter. - Whenever any American’s life is taken by another American unnecessarily—whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence—whenever we tear at the fabric of life which another man has painfully and clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole nation is degraded.—Robert F. Kennedy
  7. When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies—to be met not with cooperation but with conquest, to be subjugated and mastered.—Robert F. Kennedy

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    Exercise 2: Subordination in the Complex Sentence: Identify each subordinate clause in the following sentences, and explain its effect. Pay special attention to the placement of the subordinate clauses. All examples are direct quotations from the readings in this chapter. - When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies—to be met not with cooperation but with conquest, to be subjugated and mastered.—Robert F. Kennedy
  8. This national feeling is good, but it won’t count for much, and it won’t last unless it’s grounded in thoughtfulness and knowledge.—Ronald Reagan

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    Exercise 2: Subordination in the Complex Sentence: Identify each subordinate clause in the following sentences, and explain its effect. Pay special attention to the placement of the subordinate clauses. All examples are direct quotations from the readings in this chapter. - This national feeling is good, but it won’t count for much, and it won’t last unless it’s grounded in thoughtfulness and knowledge.—Ronald Reagan
  9. We are a company professing ourselves fellow members of Christ, in which respect only though we were absent from each other many miles, and had our imployments as far distant, yet we ought to account ourselves knit together by this bond of love and live in the exercise of it, if we would have comfort of our being in Christ.—John Winthrop

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    Exercise 2: Subordination in the Complex Sentence: Identify each subordinate clause in the following sentences, and explain its effect. Pay special attention to the placement of the subordinate clauses. All examples are direct quotations from the readings in this chapter. - We are a company professing ourselves fellow members of Christ, in which respect only though we were absent from each other many miles, and had our imployments as far distant, yet we ought to account ourselves knit together by this bond of love and live in the exercise of it, if we would have comfort of our being in Christ.—John Winthrop
  10. Disney’s Pocahontas is, once again, a parable of assimilation, although this time the filmmakers hinted at a change in outlook.—Gary Edgerton and Kathy Merlock Jackson

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    Exercise 2: Subordination in the Complex Sentence: Identify each subordinate clause in the following sentences, and explain its effect. Pay special attention to the placement of the subordinate clauses. All examples are direct quotations from the readings in this chapter. - Disney’s Pocahontas is, once again, a parable of assimilation, although this time the filmmakers hinted at a change in outlook.—Gary Edgerton and Kathy Merlock Jackson