Exercise 4

In the following sentences, mark the simple sentences, the complex

sentences and the compound sentences, and analyze these sentences

according to the rules given for analyzing simple sentences, complex

sentences and compound sentences:

1. Force is no remedy.

2. Law grinds the poor, and the rich men rule the law.

3. Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

4. Freedom is a new religion, a religion of our time.

5. Desire nothing for yourself which you do not desire for others.

6. An ambassador is a man who goes abroad to lie for the good of his

country.

7. A journalist is a man who stays at home to pursue the same

vocation.

8. Without free speech no search for truth is possible.

9. Liberty for the few is not liberty.

10. Liberty for me and slavery for you mean slavery for both.

11. No revolution ever rises above the intellectual level of those who

make it.

12. Men submit everywhere to oppression when they have only to lift

their heads to throw off the yoke.

13. Many politicians of our time are in the habit of saying that no

people ought to be free till they are fit to use freedom. The

maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to

go into the water till he had learned to swim. If men are to wait

for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery they may

indeed wait forever.

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