● EXERCISE 6 ●

1. Neither in its clearness, its colour, its fantasy of motion, its calmness of space, depth, and reflection or its wrath, can water be conceived by a low-lander, out of sight of sea.

   —John Ruskin, Modern Painters

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   Chapter 12 - EXERCISE 6: - Following are five examples of unusual sentence patterns. Choose two or three; then write your own sentences, using each example as a model. - Neither in its clearness, its colour, its fantasy of motion, its calmness of space, depth, and reflection or its wrath, can water be conceived by a low-lander, out of sight of sea. —John Ruskin, Modern Painters
2. There are hills, rounded, blunt, burned, squeezed up out of chaos, chrome and vermilion painted, aspiring to the snow-line.

   —Mary Austin, “The Land of Little Rain”

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   Chapter 12 - EXERCISE 6: - Following are five examples of unusual sentence patterns. Choose two or three; then write your own sentences, using each example as a model. - There are hills, rounded, blunt, burned, squeezed up out of chaos, chrome and vermilion painted, aspiring to the snow-line. —Mary Austin, “The Land of Little Rain”
3. The yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age, tipped with panicles of fetid, greenish bloom.

   —Mary Austin, “The Land of Little Rain”

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   Chapter 12 - EXERCISE 6: - Following are five examples of unusual sentence patterns. Choose two or three; then write your own sentences, using each example as a model. - The yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age, tipped with panicles of fetid, greenish bloom. —Mary Austin, “The Land of Little Rain”
4. Scores of millions of years before man had risen from the shores of the ocean to perceive its grandeur and to venture forth upon its turbulent waves, this eternal sea existed, larger than any other of the earth’s features, vaster than the sister oceans combined, wild, terrifying in its immensity and imperative in its universal role.

   —James Michener, Hawaii

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   Chapter 12 - EXERCISE 6: - Following are five examples of unusual sentence patterns. Choose two or three; then write your own sentences, using each example as a model. - Scores of millions of years before man had risen from the shores of the ocean to perceive its grandeur and to venture forth upon its turbulent waves, this eternal sea existed, larger than any other of the earth’s features, vaster than the sister oceans combined, wild, terrifying in its immensity and imperative in its universal role. —James Michener, Hawaii
5. Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence, so that never again will Americans be free in their own country from the noise, the exhausts, the stinks of human and automotive waste. And so that never again can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil, brother to the other animals, part of the natural world and competent to belong in it.

   —Wallace Stegner, “Wilderness Letter”

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   Chapter 12 - EXERCISE 6: - Following are five examples of unusual sentence patterns. Choose two or three; then write your own sentences, using each example as a model. - Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence, so that never again will Americans be free in their own country from the noise, the exhausts, the stinks of human and automotive waste. And so that never again can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil, brother to the other animals, part of the natural world and competent to belong in it. —Wallace Stegner, “Wilderness Letter”