1. Fix the apostrophe problem in each sentence. 2. After each sentence, rewrite the phrases with apostrophes as phrases with prepositional phrases. For example, "my brother's dog" would be "the dog of my brother." 3. Place parentheses ( ) around each prepositional phrase. 4. Underline every verb twice, its subject(s) once, and label any complements ("PA," "PN," "IO," or "DO"). 1. A mans voice called from the
mist, "Is that the Dover mail?"
2. Mr. Lorrys thoughts seemed to
cloud too.
3. "But this is my fathers story,
sir."
4. Mr. Lorry laid his hand upon
Defarges arm.
5. Not a word of it had reached
the young ladys ears.
6. The riders horse was blown, and both horse and rider were covered with mud,
from the hoofs of the horse to the hat of the man.
7. He dropped his daughters hand
and clasped his head again.
8. The cutlers knives and axes were sharp and bright, the smiths hammers
were heavy, and the gunmakers stock was murderous.
9. Hunger was the inscription on the bakers shelves, written in every small loaf
of his scanty stock of bad bread.
10. "Now if this doctors wife had suffered so intensely from this cause before
her little child was born--"
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