EXERCISE 2

● EXERCISE 2 ●

Identify each subordinate clause in the following sentences, and explain its effect. All are direct quotations from the readings in this chapter.

  1. When I saw England for the first time, I was a child in school sitting at a desk.

       —Jamaica Kincaid

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    Chapter 13 - EXERCISE 2: - Identify each subordinate clause in the following sentences, and explain its effect. All are direct quotations from the readings in this chapter. - When I saw England for the first time, I was a child in school sitting at a desk.    —Jamaica Kincaid
  2. If now as I speak of all this I give the impression of someone on the outside looking in, nose pressed up against a glass window, that is wrong.

       —Jamaica Kincaid

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    Chapter 13 - EXERCISE 2: - Identify each subordinate clause in the following sentences, and explain its effect. All are direct quotations from the readings in this chapter. - If now as I speak of all this I give the impression of someone on the outside looking in, nose pressed up against a glass window, that is wrong.    —Jamaica Kincaid
  3. Although the old man never confronted me about it, there was one occasion when he came close to forcing the whole thing out into the open.

       —Tim O’Brien

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    Chapter 13 - EXERCISE 2: - Identify each subordinate clause in the following sentences, and explain its effect. All are direct quotations from the readings in this chapter. - Although the old man never confronted me about it, there was one occasion when he came close to forcing the whole thing out into the open.    —Tim O’Brien
  4. Once people are dead, you can’t make them undead.

       —Tim O’Brien

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    Chapter 13 - EXERCISE 2: - Identify each subordinate clause in the following sentences, and explain its effect. All are direct quotations from the readings in this chapter. - Once people are dead, you can’t make them undead.    —Tim O’Brien
  5. If he charged, I could shoot; if he took no notice of me, it would be safe to leave him until the mahout came back.

       —George Orwell

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    Chapter 13 - EXERCISE 2: - Identify each subordinate clause in the following sentences, and explain its effect. All are direct quotations from the readings in this chapter. - If he charged, I could shoot; if he took no notice of me, it would be safe to leave him until the mahout came back.    —George Orwell
  6. I perceived in this moment that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.

       —George Orwell

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    Chapter 13 - EXERCISE 2: - Identify each subordinate clause in the following sentences, and explain its effect. All are direct quotations from the readings in this chapter. - I perceived in this moment that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.    —George Orwell
  7. As the 19th century wore on, St. Croix became little more than a marginal sugar producer . . .

       —National Park Service

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    Chapter 13 - EXERCISE 2: - Identify each subordinate clause in the following sentences, and explain its effect. All are direct quotations from the readings in this chapter. - As the 19th century wore on, St. Croix became little more than a marginal sugar producer . . .    —National Park Service
  8. It is true, for there is no native who does not dream at least once a day of setting himself up in the settler’s place.

       —Frantz Fanon

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    Chapter 13 - EXERCISE 2: - Identify each subordinate clause in the following sentences, and explain its effect. All are direct quotations from the readings in this chapter. - It is true, for there is no native who does not dream at least once a day of setting himself up in the settler’s place.    —Frantz Fanon
  9. If I have unjustly wrestled a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.

       —Henry David Thoreau

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    Chapter 13 - EXERCISE 2: - Identify each subordinate clause in the following sentences, and explain its effect. All are direct quotations from the readings in this chapter. - If I have unjustly wrestled a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.    —Henry David Thoreau
  10. A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

       —Henry David Thoreau

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    Chapter 13 - EXERCISE 2: - Identify each subordinate clause in the following sentences, and explain its effect. All are direct quotations from the readings in this chapter. - A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.    —Henry David Thoreau
  11. There will never be a really free and enlightened State, until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

       —Henry David Thoreau

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    Chapter 13 - EXERCISE 2: - Identify each subordinate clause in the following sentences, and explain its effect. All are direct quotations from the readings in this chapter. - There will never be a really free and enlightened State, until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.    —Henry David Thoreau