In the following poem find all of the assertive, interrogative and
imperative sentences. Mark all of the simple sentences and all of the
complex sentences. Mark all of the dependent clauses and determine
whether each is used as a noun, adjective or adverb clause. The verbs
and the verb phrases are in italics.
_Shall_ you _complain_ who _feed_ the world,
Who _clothe_ the world,
Who _house_ the world?
_Shall_ you _complain_ who _are_ the world,
Of what the world _may do_?
As from this hour you _are_ the power,
The world _must follow_ you.
The world's life _hangs_ on your right hand,
Your strong right hand,
Your skilled right hand;
You _hold_ the whole world in your hand;
_See_ to it what you _do_!
For dark or light or wrong or right,
The world _is made_ by you.
Then _rise_ as you never _rose_ before,
Nor _hoped_ before,
Nor _dared_ before;
And _show_ as never _was shown_ before
The power that _lies_ in you.
_Stand_ all as one; _see_ justice done;
_Believe_ and _dare_ and _do_.
--_Charlotte Perkins Gilman_.