Sentence Composing #5-Delayed Adjective Practice

Practice 1: Matching

Match the delayed adjectives with the sentences. Write out each sentences, inserting and underlining the delayed adjectives

1. Milk, sticky and sour on her dress, attracted every small flying thing from gnats to grasshoppers.

Toni Morrison, Beloved

2. It seemed dreadful to see the great bear lying there in agony, powerless to move and yet powerless to die.

George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant"

3. The water in this pool has a dark clarity, like smoked glass, transparent but obscure.

Edward Abbey, "Aravaipa Canyon"

4. Picture poor old Alfy coming home from football practice every evening, bruised and aching agonizingly tired, scarcely able to shovel the mashed potatoes into his mouth.

Paul Roberts, Understanding English

5. I am an enthusiastic laudress, capable of sorting a hamper full of clothes in to five subltly differentiated piles, but a terrible house keeper.

Nancy Mairs, Plaintext

Practice 2: Unscrambling to Imitate

In the model and the scrambled list, identify the delayed adjectives. Next, unscramble and write out the sentence parts of imitate the model. Finally write your own imitation of the model and identify the delayed adjectives.

Model: They ate like men, ravenous and intent

Toni Morrison, Beloved

a. They sang like angels.

b. The angel were pure.

c. And the angel were sweet

They sang like angels, pure and sweet

Own Sentence: They ran like gods, fast and powerful

Practice 3: Combining to Imitate- In the model, identify the delayed adjective, Next, combine the list of sentences to imitate the model. Finally, write your own imitation of the model and identify any delayed adjectives.

Model: He forgot that his Lesser Warders were watching, afraid to interfere.

--Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon

a. She knew something

b. What we knew is how her sister were feeling.

c. Her sisters were happy to help.

She knew how her sisters were feeling, happy to help

Own Sentence: He saw how the team acted, sad to be done.