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. The colour they most loved, and which was most familiar to them, was the dark red of the ground beneath their feet
everywhere.
2. When the solemn rite was concluded, Step-and-Fetch-It paid his own courtesy with an extra squeeze of the curly head, and deposited her again in the truck.
3. Polly was thinking about how she would care for her
poor children.
4. The next thing she remembered was that she was apparently being carried along on some gliding object to the sound of rippling
water.
5. Perhaps I ought to explain that she had already known other experiences of a purely imaginative character.
6. That Polly's personification of "The Proud Lady" disturbed her mother resulted in Polly's abandoning it.
7. That the red dust may have often given a sanguinary tone to their fancies, I have every reason to believe.
8. Most of the characters that she assumed for days and sometimes weeks at a time were purely original in conception.
9. Any change in the weather was as unexpected as it is
in books.
10. Well meant as her father's account was, it only settled in the child's mind that she must keep the awful secret to herself and that no one could understand her. |
