Exercise 2

Read carefully the following sentences, determine which are simple sentences, which are complex and which are compound.

  1. When the state is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
  2. To teach the alphabet is to inaugurate revolution.
  3. Freedom degenerates unless it has to struggle in its own defense.
  4. The destroyers have always been honored.
  5. Liberty of thought is a mockery if liberty of speech is denied.
  6. Where slavery is, there liberty cannot be; and where liberty is, there slavery cannot be.
  7. All our greatness was born of liberty and we cannot strangle the mother without destroying her children.
  8. In the twentieth century, war will be dead, but man will live.
  9. The abuse of free speech dies in a day, but the denial entombs the hope of the race.