Opening Adverbs

Practice 2: Unscrambling to Imitate- In the model and the scramblist, identify the opening adverb. Next, unscramble a write out the sentence parts to imitate the model. Finally, write your own imitation of the model and identify the opening adverb.

Model: Suddenly, Alfred, who had heard the fight from the across the street, attacked from the rear with his favorite weapon, an indoor ball bat.
John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

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Afterward, Jasmine, who had read the novel for over two hours, sat up in the bed with her nightly snack, a mini Oreo cookie.

Own Sentence: Before, the team, who had prepared for weeks, opened their football season with a win, over their rivals.

Practice 3: Combining to Imitate

In the model, identify the opening adverb. Next, combine the list of sentences to imitate the model. Finally, write your own imitation of the model and identify any opening adverbs.

Model: Outside, the doctor's car was surrounded by the boy while Finny was being lifted inside by Phil Latham.
John Knowles, A Separate Peace

Inside, Laura was being tutored by their teacher while younger children were involved with games.

Own Imitation Sentence: Outside, the runners ran with their coach next to the field where the football players practiced.

Practice 4: Imitating
Identify the opening adverbs in the model and then write your own example.

1. Here, relatives swarmed like termites.
--Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety

Own Imitation: Before the test, the students crammed like crazy.

2. Slowly, methodically, miserably, she ate the jellied bread.
Toni Morrison, Beloved

Own Imitation: Agonizingly, dreadfully, mournfully, we walked to the funeral.

3. Very slowly and very carefully, Harry got to his feet and set off again as fast as he could without making too much noise, hurrying through the darkness back toward Hogwarts.
--J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Own Imitation: Very throughly and very methodically, the instructor checked over the project , before he finally gave the student an A.

Argumentative Paragraph

We read two very different stories; The Knight's Tale and The Miller's Tale. Yet in both stories we read the deadly sins of lust and greed were present. I will tell you how these two stories, yet very different, both included these two factors. In The Knight's Tale two willful knights fight for the love and hand of one fair lady named Emily. This shows lust in the fact that they didn't know anymore about Emily than how she looked. Greed is shown in by the way how Arcita and Palamon go about getting her, Artica wants to win the war that has precipitated between them and Palamon just wants her regardless. The king came up with the idea of this war when he came upon the two of them in the forest he said,
"That each of you shall follow his own quest,
Free of all ransom or of fear of me;
And this day, fifty weeks hence, both shall be
Here once again, each with a hundred knights,
Armed for the lists, who stoutly for your rights
Will ready to battle, to maintain
Your claim to love." pg 49 lines 810-816
Then there is The Miller's Tale which shows greed and lust in a less honorable light. There is a woman who has a husband but is not faithful to him. This wife, very superficial, shows greed in that she wants more than just her husband and is unfaithful to him which also shows lust. There is a carpenter, he husband, an astrologer, and a priest who all fall for this fair young lady. The astrologer is the sliest of the pursuers makes a heinous story to get to the carpenters wife. He says there is a major flood to come and that only the three of them will be saved he says,
"Your wife and you must hang apart, that in
The night shall come no chance for you to sin
Either in looking or in carnal deed.
These orders I have told you, go, God speed!
Tomorrow night, when all men are asleep,
Into our kneading-tubs will we three creep..." pg 81 lines 403-408
In these two very different stories we see how both lust and greed are present. Although there are some similarities it shows how there very different people about how they go about getting things and committing these deadly sins in these two stories.

Delayed Adjectives 2

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"

Being an all-state athlete is a very tough task to accomplish, although it is very prestigious.

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

The man's large stature, very intimidating, was the biggest I've ever seen.

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
He knew everything there was to know about his trade, wise as a sen say, he taught me all I know.

Sample: I stared as he threw the battered ball from the garbage can, smelly as a foot, into the field of the pitcher.

He hadn't showered in days because of the camping trip, caked with dirt, he came rolling into town.
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, agonizing in pain.
--Robert Ludlum, The Prometheus Deception

2. The spiders like of their sides, small and cold, their legs drying in knots.
--Annie Dillard, "Death of a Moth"

3. He was twenty-six, dark haired tall, muscular, well-mannered, and successful.
--John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

Delayed Adjectives

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 beast lying there in agony, powerless to move 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 into five subtly 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, sweet and pure.

Own Sentence: They played like champions, flawless and unified.

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 how her sisters, happy to help, were feeling.

Own Sentence: They knew what the other team would do, bring the heat.