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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