Textual Grammar of Upon Westminster Bridge

 Textual Grammar of Upon Westminster Bridge   

A.Do as directed 


1. Earth has not anything to show more fair.


[Use superlative degree]


2. Earth has not anything to show more fair.


[Use positive degree]



3. Dull would he be of soul who could pass by a sight so touching in its majesty.


[Change into a negative sentence]


4. Dull would he be of soul who could pass by a sight so touching in its majesty. 

[Use the adjective form of 'majesty'/use the adverb form of 'touching']


5. This City now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning. [Use 'garment' as a verb]


6. This City now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning.


[Use the adjective form of 'beauty']


7. Dull would he be of soul who could pass by a sight so touching in its majesty.


[Use the noun form of 'dull']


8. This City now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent, bare.


[Use the noun forms of 'silent' and 'bare']

9. This City now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent, bare.


[Change into a complex sentence]


10. Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie/Open unto the fields, and to the sky;/All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.


[Change into a complex sentence]


11. Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie/Open unto the fields, and to the sky;/All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.


[Use the verb form of 'glittering"]


12. Never did the sun more beautifully steep in his first splendour, valley, rock or hill.


[Change into an affirmative sentence]


13. Never did the sun more beautifully steep in his first splendour, valley, rock or hill.


[Use the positive degree]


14. Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! [Change into an affirmative sentence]


15. The river glideth at his own sweet will [Change into a complex sentence]


16. The very houses seem asleep.


[Change into a complex sentence] 

17. The very houses seem asleep.


[Change into a negative sentence]


18. And all that mighty heart is lying still.


[Change into a complex sentence]


B.Split into Simple Sentences:


19. Earth has not anything to show more fair.


[Split into two simple sentences]


20. Dull would he be of soul who could pass by a sight so touching in its majesty.


[Split into two simple sentences]


21. This City now doth like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning.


[Split into two simple sentences]


22. Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie/Open unto the fields and to the sky,/All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.


[Split into two or more simple sentences] 


23. Never did sun more beautifully steep in his first splendour, valley, rock or hill.


[Split into two or more simple sentences]


24. Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!


[Split into two simple sentences]


C.Change the Voice:


25. Dull would he be of soul who could pass by a sight so touching in its majesty.


26. Never did sun more beautifully steep in his first splendour, valley, rock or hill.


27. This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning.

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