1. Place parentheses around each prepositional phrase. 2. Underline every subject once, every verb twice, and label complements ("PA," "PN," "IO," "DO"). 3. Put brackets [ ] around every subordinate clause and use arrows or labels to indicate their function. 4. Put a vertical line at the end of every main clause. 1. Before the children could fairly comprehend what had passed, they were again lifted into the truck and began to glide back into the tunnel.
2. Fortunately, the representation of a resuscitated person required such extraordinary acting that Mrs. Smith was resuscitated only for a day.
3. Hickory softly scratched his leg while a broad, bashful smile, almost closed his small eyes.
4. Indeed, most of Polly's impersonations were got rid of in this way, although it by no means prevented their subsequent reappearance.
5. A bland smile broke on Wan Lee's face, as, to the children's amazement, he quietly disengaged himself from the group and stepped before the leader.
6. The famous old lode of Red Mountain never would have been found if Polly hadn't tumbled over the slide directly on top of the outcrop.
7. Satisfied that no one could observe her, she softly visited the bedside of each of her companions, and administered from a purely fictitious bottle spoonfuls
of invisible medicine.
8. Even when her companions sometimes hesitated from actual hunger or fatigue and forgot their
guilty part, she never faltered.
9. Limited as her functions were, Polly performed them with inimitable gravity and unquestioned
sincerity.
10. This was a favourite imaginative situation of Polly's, but only indulged when her companions were asleep, partly because she could not trust confederates with her more serious fancies, and partly because they were at such times passive in her hands. |
