Assignment on Gettysburg Address Diagram | ENG 3302, Assignments of English Language

Download Assignment on Gettysburg Address Diagram | ENG 3302 and more Assignments English Language in PDF only on Docsity! Grammar (ENG 3302) RevB Gettysburg Address Diagram The end of the Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln Directions: Diagram these sentences that conclude the Gettysburg Address. You know all of the parts, but I’ll give you some hints: (a) treat 4 through 7 as Sub-C structures attached to “is” in 3; treat each initial “that” as a subordinating conjunction. (b) Treat the phrase “to be here dedicated ... before us” in 3 as a subject complement of “is”. (c) You will also find one conjoined independent clause, one That-C, two Rel-C, two Int-C, and several participles functioning adjectivally. You will probably need to use more than one piece of paper. (1) The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. (2) The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. (3) It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – (4) that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - (5) that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; (6) that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and (7) that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.