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t posture. They avoid distracting mannerisms and verbal habits. 2．The features of public speech in formal style The following is a speech made by English Prime Minister Winston Churchill, which is mainly about his request for organizing cabinet during World War II. I will analyze the stylistic features of this speech from grammar, vocabulary and phonetics. I considered in the public interest to suggest that the House should be summoned to meet today. Mr. Speaker agreed and took the necessary steps, in accordance with the powers conferred upon him by the Resolution of the House. At the end of the proceedings today, the adjournment of the House will be proposed until Tuesday, May 21, with, of course, provision for earlier meeting if need be. The business to be considered during that week will be notified to Members at the earliest opportunity. I now invite the House, by the Resolution which stands in my name, to record its approval of the steps taken and to declare its confidence in the new Government. To form an administration of this scale and complexity is a serious undertaking in itself, but it must be remembered that we are in the preliminary stage of one of the greatest battles in history, that we are in action at many points in Norway and in Holland, that we have to be prepared in the Mediterranean, that the air battle is continuous and that many preparations have to be made here at home. In this crisis I hope I may be pardoned if I do not address the House at any length today. I hope that any of my friends and colleagues, or former colleagues, who are affected by the political reconstruction, will make all allowance for a ny lack of ceremony with which it has been necessary to act. I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: “I have nothing to prefer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.” We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind .We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask: “What is our policy?” I will say: “It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask: “What is our aim?” I can answer in one word: “Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. Let that be realized; no survival for the British Empire, no survival for all that the British Empire has stood for, no survival for the urge and impulse of the ages, that mankind will move forward towards its goal. But I take up my task with buoyancy and hope. I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among men. At this time I feel entitled to claim the aid of all, and I say, “Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength. 2.1 Grammar characteristics Sentence length changed obviously. This material consists of twenty sentences, of which the longest consists of seventy-four words and the shortest only has four words. The obvious change shows the change of speechmaker’s emotion and his effort to move audience. The average sentence consists of twenty-four words, which is much longer than daily conversation sentence of eight words. Sometimes there are several clauses in the long sentence, which follows the main clause. So there is not much difficulties in understanding for audience. Dif