The Complex Sentences

The Complex Sentences :



Study carefully the following complex sentences.

1. Nothing can describe the confusion of thought which I felt when I sank into the water.

2. Sir Isaac Newton, after deep meditation, discovered that there was a law in nature called attraction, by virtue of which every particle of matter that the world is composed of draws towards itself every other particle of matter with a force which is proportionate to its mass and distance.

3. The man, who can play most heartily when he has the chance of playing, is generally the man who can work most heartily when he must work.

4. Whenever he heard the question, the old man who lived in that house answered that the earth was flat.

5. When I went to the place where the king was attacked, I heard, to my surprise, the report that he had fought with his assailants for two hours before his capture.

6. Everyone, who knows you, acknowledges, when he considers the case calmly, that you have been wronged.

7. I knew a person who believed that, if a man were permitted to make the ballads, he need not care who made the laws of a nation.

8. It is my considered opinion that students who work regularly and diligently seldom fail, even if the papers set at the final examinations are as stiff as they can reasonably be.

9. Milton said that he did not educate his daughters in languages, because one tongue was enough for a woman.

10. The man who did most to convince the world that slavery was wrong was Wilberforce.

11. We had in this village, some twenty years ago, an idiot boy, whom I well remember, who from his childhood showed a strong liking for bees.

12. My friend's father, who lives in a beautiful part of the country, has invited me to stay there during the holidays while my parents are away on a visit to London.

13. What use he will make of the talents he has been blessed with is the important question a youth must ever keep before himself while at school or college.

14. History says that Socrates, when he was given the cup of hemlock, continued to talk to friends who were standing around him as he drank it.

15. I was so angry that if I had met him in the street, I should have knocked him down without waiting to ask him why he had written me such an insulting letter as that.

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