Learning Task 8: In your notebook, copy the short speech below. Then, Encircle
the verbs, box the adjectives and underline the adverbs that express strong or
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The Gettysburg Address
(Bliss Version)
Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this conti-
nent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all
men are created equal.
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Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any
nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great bat-
tle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final
FONA & resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is
rters. altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
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But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate we can not consecrate
can not hallow
this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled
here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world
will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what
they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished
work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for
us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these
honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the
last full measure of devotion
that we here highly resolve that these dead shall
not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of free-
and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not
perish from the earth.
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Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
Learning Task 9: In your notebook, write a short paragraph about your stand or
viewpoint about peace and war using the identified verbs, adjectives and adverbs
in Learning Task 8.
Answers
Answer:
verb; live
adjectives; geat, long
adverb; now
Explanation:
NOW we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. we are met on a great batle-field of that war. We have come to dedicated a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their (live) that nation might (live). it is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
The answer to the given question is as follows:
The Gettysburg Address
(Bliss Version)
Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Anticipated now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final FONA & resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is
altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate we can not consecrate can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world
will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for
us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honoured dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of free-
and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
Verbs - brought, conceived, dedicated, created, engaged, testing, endure, met, resting, gave, live, consecrate, living, dead, struggled, remember, forget, fought, devotion, birth, and perish.
Adjectives - four, seven, new, liberty, great, long, might, larger, hollow, brave, far, poor, little, long, unfinished, honoured, last ful, vain, and free.
Adverbs - highly and nobly.