Wednesday, 8 April 2015

Reading Comprehension: `Unpacking' a Complex Sentence

In the previous post, another complex sentence from Jack London's White Fang was given for you to mull over and see if you can make sense of it by dissecting it into individual ideas.

The sentence is reproduced below:

(It is not the way of the Wild to like movement.) It freezes the water to prevent it running to the sea; it drives the sap out of the trees till they are frozen to their mighty hearts; and most ferociously and terribly of all does the Wild harry and crush into submission man - man, who is the most restless of life, ever in revolt against the dictum that all movement must in the end come to the cessation of movement.

 For suggested answers, please go Making Sense of a Complex Sentence which can found in the Blog page of The Pear Tree Centre for Education.

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