1. Replace the missing commas. 2. Put parentheses ( ) around each prepositional phrase. 3. Underline subjects once, finite verbs twice, and label complements ("PN," "PA," "IO," "DO"). 1. And Perseus and the good Dictys and his wife came to visit his mother every day at the temple of Athene.
2. Instead of falling Perseus floated and stood and ran
along the sky.
3. Next Polydectes proclaimed a great feast and invited to it all the chiefs and landowners and the young men of the island and among
them Perseus.
4. He was not a righteous man, like Dictys; but greedy
and cunning and cruel.
5. So Danae was made a slave and had to fetch water from the well and grind in the mill and perhaps was beaten and wore a heavy chain, because she would not marry that cruel king.
6. Through doubt and need danger and battle, I drive them.
7. And Perseus was brave and truthful gentle and courteous.
8. He was the most skillful of all in running and wrestling and boxing and in throwing the quoit and the javelin and in rowing with the oar and in playing on the harp.
9. Perseus's face grew very red as they pointed at him and smiled and whispered, "What has that foundling to give?"
10. Down to the cliffs he went and looked across the broad blue sea; and he wondered if his dream were true and prayed in the bitterness of his soul. |