ADDITIONAL PRACTICE: sentence functions

1. The pain may fade, but scars serve as a reminder of our suffering and make the bearer all
the more resolved never to be wounded again.
2. But still, that effort, which appears to the majority of people, quite rightly, senseless and vain
, has in it something of the great instinctive persistence with which ants build their anthills in
busy thoroughfares, where they are doomed to be crushed and destroyed.
3. It was painful for me to deny myself the joys that called from outside, but painful also not to
complete my task, and I was unable to glimpse or grasp the means of reconciling the two
and bringing them into harmony.
4. I would dream I was performing on a stage, in front of an invisible, but exacting and large
audience, wondering all the time with horror how I came to be on that stage.
5. Those pathetic movements of a trapped helpless animal declaiming those pretentious lines
while a deathly sweat drenched her and a mad fear of bungling and scandal shone in her
eyes, showed me in a flash all the vanity of this art.
6. Powerless, I watched those words, irrevocably void of their former meaning, estranged from
their new pronunciation, provoke over the centuries a pitiful smile from their audience and
make the hapless figure still more distant, alien and alone.
7. So as not to lose his way, the young man took an axe and carved in the trunks of the trees
beside the road signs which would later show him the way back.
8. Neglected in piles, like the loot in a thiefs apartment, was new photographic and computer
and video equipment with an aggregate retail value possibly exceeding the annual salary of
Garys secretary at CenTrust.