Textual Grammar of the poem Upon Westminster Bridge
đ A. Change the Voice:
1. Earth has not anything to show more fair.
2. This City now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning.
3. Never saw, I never felt, a calm so deep.
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đ B. Narration Change:
1. The poet said, "Earth has not anything to show more fair."
2. The poet says, "Earth has not anything to show more fair."
C. Do as Directed:
1. The City now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent, bare.
(Rewrite using the noun forms of 'silent' and 'bare')
2. Dull would he be of soul who could pass by a sight so touching in its majesty.
(Rewrite using the adjective form of 'majesty' and the adverb form of 'touching')
3. The river glideth at his own sweet will.
(Rewrite using the noun form of 'sweet')
4. Ne'er saw I, never felt a calm so deep.
(Rewrite using the noun form of 'deep')
5. The very houses seem asleep.
(Rewrite using the verb form of 'asleep')
6. Earth has not anything to show more fair.
(Rewrite using the noun form of 'fair')
7. The very houses seem asleep.
(Rewrite the sentence using the adverb form of 'seem')
8. All that mighty heart is lying still.
(Rewrite using the noun form of 'mighty')
9. Earth has not anything to show more fair.
(Turn into an interrogative sentence)
10. Earth has not anything to show more fair.
(Turn into positive degree)
11. This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning.
(Turn into a complex sentence)
12. The river glideth at his own sweet will.
(Turn into a complex sentence)
13. Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep.
(Turn into an affirmative sentence)
14. All that mighty heart is lying still.
(Turn into a negative sentence)
15. The river glideth at his own sweet will.
(Turn into a negative sentence)
16. All that mighty heart is lying still.
(Rewrite using the noun form of 'still')
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