Introduction
The 515-word excerpt was written and presented by Barack Obama titled “President Obama’s Farewell Speech.” This section is located almost midway during the presidents’ transition of power to President Donald Trump. On January 11th of 2017, Obama concluded his eight-year presidency with this speech. Within the excerpt, he addresses the American people and the world is hope for America. In this excerpt, he makes a statement of his accomplishments and pays homage to the past legends and monumental moments in America’s history.
Sentence Lengths
Barack Obama wrote this portion of the expert of 515 to contain 25 sentences. This structure also has a variety of sentence lengths due to this piece is an excerpt. Obama’s shortest sentences …show more content…
However, within the 4 adjectival clauses the most common is the pattern VII (50%), and then the other 2 are a pattern VI and VIII (both 25%). For in sentence 6 it states, “This is the greatest gift our Founders gave us,” this sentence illustrates how the verb “us.” Since the number of patterns contains 0’s is due to the lack of adjectival clauses because no dialogue is present between the president and the audience, who attended his farewell address. The adjectival clause that has no pattern is as followed: I, II, III, IV, V, VIp, IX, and X. Again, these patterns are common to have no pattern due to the modern linguistics of how people speak and …show more content…
This excerpt specifically addresses the American people in what they and the former President had done together throughout his 8-year span as President. Within the passage, it has a number of patterns, clauses, verbals, and “The Big Nine.” Many of the patterns are the common VI and VII’s are found throughout the excerpt. To continue, the clause made up much of the excerpt with nominals unusually taking up much of the clause category with 21 out of 31. This form of a clause is a highly uncommon because one may assume that the language is highly modern and the excerpt is a speech, unlike a novel excerpt. Next, is the verbals which contain gerunds, infinitives, and participles. The most common verbal is the infinitive which contains pattern VI and VII; However, there is a pattern IX discovered among the excerpt due to the sentence structure and how it is written within the excerpt the which contains a direct object and an object compliment. Furthermore, “The Big Nine” which makes up 39.32% of the excerpt. The most common of “The Big Nine” are the forms of “and (24)”, “be (23)”, “to (21)”. Finally, “President Obama’s Farewell Address” is overall a modern piece and it demonstrations much of the patterns, clauses, verbals, and “The Big Nine” that one may learn
The 515-word excerpt was written and presented by Barack Obama titled “President Obama’s Farewell Speech.” This section is located almost midway during the presidents’ transition of power to President Donald Trump. On January 11th of 2017, Obama concluded his eight-year presidency with this speech. Within the excerpt, he addresses the American people and the world is hope for America. In this excerpt, he makes a statement of his accomplishments and pays homage to the past legends and monumental moments in America’s history.
Sentence Lengths
Barack Obama wrote this portion of the expert of 515 to contain 25 sentences. This structure also has a variety of sentence lengths due to this piece is an excerpt. Obama’s shortest sentences …show more content…
However, within the 4 adjectival clauses the most common is the pattern VII (50%), and then the other 2 are a pattern VI and VIII (both 25%). For in sentence 6 it states, “This is the greatest gift our Founders gave us,” this sentence illustrates how the verb “us.” Since the number of patterns contains 0’s is due to the lack of adjectival clauses because no dialogue is present between the president and the audience, who attended his farewell address. The adjectival clause that has no pattern is as followed: I, II, III, IV, V, VIp, IX, and X. Again, these patterns are common to have no pattern due to the modern linguistics of how people speak and …show more content…
This excerpt specifically addresses the American people in what they and the former President had done together throughout his 8-year span as President. Within the passage, it has a number of patterns, clauses, verbals, and “The Big Nine.” Many of the patterns are the common VI and VII’s are found throughout the excerpt. To continue, the clause made up much of the excerpt with nominals unusually taking up much of the clause category with 21 out of 31. This form of a clause is a highly uncommon because one may assume that the language is highly modern and the excerpt is a speech, unlike a novel excerpt. Next, is the verbals which contain gerunds, infinitives, and participles. The most common verbal is the infinitive which contains pattern VI and VII; However, there is a pattern IX discovered among the excerpt due to the sentence structure and how it is written within the excerpt the which contains a direct object and an object compliment. Furthermore, “The Big Nine” which makes up 39.32% of the excerpt. The most common of “The Big Nine” are the forms of “and (24)”, “be (23)”, “to (21)”. Finally, “President Obama’s Farewell Address” is overall a modern piece and it demonstrations much of the patterns, clauses, verbals, and “The Big Nine” that one may learn