Moon Speech
Think of how this sentence can be modified with phrases and clauses.
If I were to say to my fellow citizens that we shall send to the Moon a giant rocket, then we must be bold!
Now, read the entire first sentence in John F. Kennedy’s Moon Speech.
If I were to say to my fellow citizens that we shall send to the Moon, 240,000 miles away from the control station in Houston, a giant rocket more than 300 ft tall, the length of this football field, made of new metal alloys, some of which have not yet been invented, capable of standing heat and stresses several times more than have ever been experienced, fitted together with a precision better than the finest watch, carrying all the equipment needed for proportion guidance control, communications, food and survival on an untried mission to an unknown Celestial body and then return it safely to Earth, reentering the atmosphere at speeds of over 25,000 miles per hour, causing heat about half bad on the temperature of the Sun – almost as hot as it is here today – and do all this and do all this and do it right and do it first before this decade is out, then we must be bold!
Now, take this assessment on the modifying phrases. Identify the word or phrase that the modifying phrase modifies.
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