Sentence Types in Declaration of Independence

 Cara Tumino

Complex Sentence: "The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States."

Simple Sentence: "Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren."

Compound-Complex Sentence: "He has forbidden his governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them."

Compound Sentence: "We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence."

Citation

     The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription