viernes, 3 de febrero de 2012

In the following famous quotes, you must identify which are simple sentences, compound sentences or complex sentences. Also, you have to underline the conjunctions and subordinators.

1.    The important thing is never to stop questioning. Albert Einstein


2.   If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. Anatole France [Jacques Anatole Thibault] (1844-1924)

3.   When all think alike, no one is thinking very much. Walter Lippmann (1889-1974)

4.   Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

5.   In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary. Kathleen Norris

6.   The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. Chinese proverb

7.   Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. Jules de Gaultier

In the following famous quotes, you must identify which are simple sentences, compound sentences or complex sentences. Also, you have to underline the conjunctions and subordinators. 

1.    We think in generalities, but we live in details. Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)

2.   If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing. W. Edwards Deming

3.   In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love. Diego Marchi

4.   Every really new idea looks crazy at first. Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)

5.   If all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over. Yiddish proverb

6.   The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Groucho Marx (1890-1977)

7.   The secret of being tiresome is to tell everything. Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778)
Read the following fable, and then you have to invent one moral
with a simple sentence, one with a compound sentence and one
with a complex sentence:

Belling the Cat
An Aesop's Fable

Long ago, the mice had a general council to consider what measures they could take to outwit their common enemy, the Cat. Some said this, and some said that; but at last a young mouse got up and said he had a proposal to make, which he thought would meet the case. "You will all agree," said he, "that our chief danger consists in the sly and treacherous manner in which the enemy approaches us. Now, if we could receive some signal of her approach, we could easily escape from her. I venture, therefore, to propose that a small bell be procured, and attached by a ribbon round the neck of the Cat. By this means we should always know when she was about, and could easily retire while she was in the neighbourhood."

This proposal met with general applause, until an old mouse got up and said: 
"That is all very well, but who is to bell the Cat?" The mice looked at one another and nobody spoke. Then the old mouse said:  “It is easy to propose impossible remedies”

 
1.   It is better to be quite than saying absurd ideas.
2.   Think in a good solution and the problem is going to disappear
3.   Always you should say viable ideas 

Read the following fable, and then you have to invent one moral with a simple sentence, one with a compound sentence and one with a complex sentence:

The Lion and the Mouse
An Aesop's Fable

Once when a Lion was asleep a little Mouse began running up and down upon him; this soon wakened the Lion, who placed his huge paw upon him, and opened his big jaws to swallow him. "Pardon, O King," cried the little Mouse: "forgive me this time, I shall never forget it: who knows but what I may be able to do you a turn some of these days?" The Lion was so tickled at the idea of the Mouse being able to help him, that he lifted up his paw and let him go. Some time after the Lion was caught in a trap, and the hunters who desired to carry him alive to the King, tied him to a tree while they went in search of a wagon to carry him on. Just then the little Mouse happened to pass by, and seeing the sad plight in which the Lion was, went up to him and soon gnawed away the ropes that bound the King of the Beasts. "Was I not right?" said the little Mouse.


Morals:

You never should underestimate anybody, any people could be helpful.

If you help someone, you will receive your reward.

Helping uninterestedly brings you rewards.