● Exercise 4 ●

1. Night came on,—night calm, unmoved, and glorious, shining down with her innumerable and solemn angel eyes, twinkling, beautiful, but silent.—Harriet Beecher Stowe

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   Exercise 4: Cumulative, Periodic, and Inverted Sentences: Following are several examples of unusual sentence patterns. Using each one as a model, write your own sentence about texts or issues from this chapter, imitating the syntax of each. - Night came on,—night calm, unmoved, and glorious, shining down with her innumerable and solemn angel eyes, twinkling, beautiful, but silent.—Harriet Beecher Stowe
2. If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him?—Abraham Lincoln

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   Exercise 4: Cumulative, Periodic, and Inverted Sentences: Following are several examples of unusual sentence patterns. Using each one as a model, write your own sentence about texts or issues from this chapter, imitating the syntax of each. - If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him?—Abraham Lincoln
3. Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments,—I submit; so let it be done! —John Brown

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   Exercise 4: Cumulative, Periodic, and Inverted Sentences: Following are several examples of unusual sentence patterns. Using each one as a model, write your own sentence about texts or issues from this chapter, imitating the syntax of each. - Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments,—I submit; so let it be done! —John Brown
4. In front of the Gothic window stood the old citizen, wrapped in a wide gown, his grey periwig exchanged for a nightcap, which was thrust back from his forehead, and his silk stockings hanging down about his legs.—Nathaniel Hawthorne

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   Exercise 4: Cumulative, Periodic, and Inverted Sentences: Following are several examples of unusual sentence patterns. Using each one as a model, write your own sentence about texts or issues from this chapter, imitating the syntax of each. - In front of the Gothic window stood the old citizen, wrapped in a wide gown, his grey periwig exchanged for a nightcap, which was thrust back from his forehead, and his silk stockings hanging down about his legs.—Nathaniel Hawthorne
5. The rugged battle of fate, where strength is born, we shun.—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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   Exercise 4: Cumulative, Periodic, and Inverted Sentences: Following are several examples of unusual sentence patterns. Using each one as a model, write your own sentence about texts or issues from this chapter, imitating the syntax of each. - The rugged battle of fate, where strength is born, we shun.—Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. Fondly do we hope—fervently do we pray—that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.—Abraham Lincoln

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   Exercise 4: Cumulative, Periodic, and Inverted Sentences: Following are several examples of unusual sentence patterns. Using each one as a model, write your own sentence about texts or issues from this chapter, imitating the syntax of each. - Fondly do we hope—fervently do we pray—that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.—Abraham Lincoln
7. At length, after many pauses to examine the gorgeous display of goods in the shop windows, and after suffering some rebukes for the impertinence of his scrutiny into people’s faces, the Major’s kinsman found himself near the steepled building, still unsuccessful in his search.—Nathaniel Hawthorne

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   Exercise 4: Cumulative, Periodic, and Inverted Sentences: Following are several examples of unusual sentence patterns. Using each one as a model, write your own sentence about texts or issues from this chapter, imitating the syntax of each. - At length, after many pauses to examine the gorgeous display of goods in the shop windows, and after suffering some rebukes for the impertinence of his scrutiny into people’s faces, the Major’s kinsman found himself near the steepled building, still unsuccessful in his search.—Nathaniel Hawthorne
8. During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. —Edgar Allan Poe

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   Exercise 4: Cumulative, Periodic, and Inverted Sentences: Following are several examples of unusual sentence patterns. Using each one as a model, write your own sentence about texts or issues from this chapter, imitating the syntax of each. - During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. —Edgar Allan Poe
9. When first I took up my abode in the woods, that is, began to spend my nights as well as days there, which, by accident, was on Independence day, or the fourth of July, 1845, my house was not finished for winter, but was merely a defence against the rain, without plastering or chimney, the walls being of rough weather-stained boards, with wide chinks, which made it cool at night. —Henry David Thoreau

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   Exercise 4: Cumulative, Periodic, and Inverted Sentences: Following are several examples of unusual sentence patterns. Using each one as a model, write your own sentence about texts or issues from this chapter, imitating the syntax of each. - When first I took up my abode in the woods, that is, began to spend my nights as well as days there, which, by accident, was on Independence day, or the fourth of July, 1845, my house was not finished for winter, but was merely a defence against the rain, without plastering or chimney, the walls being of rough weather-stained boards, with wide chinks, which made it cool at night. —Henry David Thoreau
10. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.—Henry David Thoreau

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    Exercise 4: Cumulative, Periodic, and Inverted Sentences: Following are several examples of unusual sentence patterns. Using each one as a model, write your own sentence about texts or issues from this chapter, imitating the syntax of each. - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.—Henry David Thoreau