The following sentences come from the openings of well-known works. Identify the independent and dependent clauses in each sentence. Then choose one sentence, and write a sentence of your own imitating its structure, clause for clause and phrase for phrase. Example:
When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold.
—SUZANNE COLLINS, The Hunger Games
Before the detectives arrived, our friend Nastassia found a passageway behind the wall.
- We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom, symbolizing an end as well as a beginning, signifying renewal as well as change.
—JOHN F. KENNEDY, Inaugural Address
We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom, symbolizing an end as well as a beginning, signifying renewal as well as change.—JOHN F. KENNEDY, Inaugural Addressaccept_blank_answers: truepoints: 10
We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom, symbolizing an end as well as a beginning, signifying renewal as well as change.—JOHN F. KENNEDY, Inaugural Address
- Once in a long while, four times so far for me, my mother brings out the metal tube that holds her medical diploma.
—MAXINE HONG KINGSTON, “Photographs of My Parents”
Once in a long while, four times so far for me, my mother brings out the metal tube that holds her medical diploma.—MAXINE HONG KINGSTON, “Photographs of My Parents”accept_blank_answers: truepoints: 10
Once in a long while, four times so far for me, my mother brings out the metal tube that holds her medical diploma.—MAXINE HONG KINGSTON, “Photographs of My Parents”