Setnence Composing # 5- Delayed Adjectives- Practice 4 and 5

Setnence Composing # 5- Delayed Adjectives- Practice 4 and 5

Practice 4: Imitating

Directions: Identify the delayed adjectives in the models and sample imitations. Then write an imitation of each model sentence, one sentence part at a time.

1. Dumpster diving is outdoor work, often surprisingly pleasant.
--Lars Eighner, "On Dumpster Diving"
often surprisingly pleasant.
Racing is hard work, but very rewarding.

Sample: Doing homework is necessary discipline, sometimes incredibly helpful.
2. The baby's eyes were the shape of watermelon seeds, very black and cut very precisely into her small, solemn face.
--Anne Tyler, Digging to America
incredibly helpful
Swimming is often enjoyable, sometimes very rigorous.

Sample: The unspoken pain was the weight of river rocks ,very heavy and embedded most certainly into her aching body.

3. I shivered as he tossed the feathered corpse of the dead chicken, limp as a cloth, into the back of the truck.
--Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
limp as a cloth
I laughed as she jumped over the rope, tight as elastic, so she didn't trip.
Sample: I stared as he threw the battered ball from the garbage can, smelly as a foot, into the field of the pitcher.

Practice 5: Expanding

The delayed adjectives are omitted at the caret mark (^) in the following sentences. For each caret, adda delayed adjective or adjective phrase, bleding your content and style wit the rest of the sentence.
1. The man topple to one side, crumpled against the railing, ^.
--Robert Ludlum, The Prometheus Deception
rapidly
2. The spiders like of their sides, ^ and ^, their legs drying in knots.
--Annie Dillard, "Death of a Moth"
round and fat
3. He was twenty-sex, dark haired ^, ^, ^, and ^.
--John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
handsome, tall, tan and hilarious