• EXERCISE 3a The following paragraph from The Future of Life by E. O.
Wilson consists of
three sentences: a simple declarative sentence, then a periodic sentence, and
finally a cumulative sentence. Keep the first one as it is: then rewrite the
periodic sentence as cumulative and the cumulative as periodic. Compare
the two paragraphs. Discuss the relationship among the sentences in each
paragraph and the rhetorical effect of syntax on meaning and tone.
The guiding principles of a united environmental movement must be and
eventually will be, chiefly long term. If two hundred years of history of
environmentalism have taught us anything, it is that a change of heart
occurs when people look bevond themselves to others, and then to the rest
of life. It is strengthened when they also expand their view of landscape,
from parish to nation and beyond and their sweep of time from their own
life spans to multiple generations and finally to the extended future his-
tory of humankind, para. 181
• EXERCISE.

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing. which word from the passage gives the best indication of the speaker’s tone? b

Will give if correct read the passage first of all, if someone says your dream is impossible, they’re wrong. you can’t prove that something is impossible-all you know is that [it] hasn’t been done yet. people said no one could scale mount everest, but in 1953, sir edmund hilary and tenzing norgay gazed down upon the world from its summit. people said that man could not fly, but in 1903, orville and wilbur wright made the first sustained powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine. people said, “okay, we admit that someone could climb mount everest, and we admit that man has learned to fly, but no one will ever, ever walk on the face of the moon.” if we can send three men a quarter of a million miles away and bring them home safely, is there any great task we cannot accomplish? which identifies the textual evidence that best supports the claim: the authors purpose is to persuade? a: the author shares historical information about the wright brothers. b: the author states that men have walked the moon. c: the author states that others who think your dreams are impossible are wrong. d: the author wants to know what tasks we cannot accomplish.

What functions as a reflexive pronoun in the sentence the professor herself wanted to attend the conference, but it was cancelled when she and several other presenters had to excuse themselves