When you see a servant carrying a heavy carpet, do you give him a helping hand?

Notice the use of personal pronouns in the two texts. Did this make you identify yourself more with the topic than if it had been written in an impersonal style? As you read the texts, were you able to relate the writer’s thoughts on the way you lead your own life?

Split the following sentences into their constituent clauses

• There is no freedom if you are enclosed by self-interest or by various walls of discipline.

Very young children will eat needles and matches eagerly—but the diet is not a nourishing one.

We must sleep or go mad: but then sleep is so pleasant that we have great difficulty in getting up in the morning.