1. Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs ( Week 7-8)
Identify whether the underlined words that express strong or pressing points are verbs, adjectives or
adverbs. Write your answers at the back of this page.
The Gettysburg Address (Bliss Version)
Four score and seven years ago, our fathers (1) brought forth on this continent, a new nation,
conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are (2) engaged in a (3) great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so
conceived and so (4) dedicated, can long endure. We (5) are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have
come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that
nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate -- we cannot consecrate
we cannot consecrate -- we cannot hallow -- this ground.
The (6.) brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add
or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did
(7) here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who (8) fought
here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before
us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full
measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not (9) have died in vain -- that this
nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for
the people, shall not perish from the (10) earth.
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
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