Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Sentence Composing #5-Delayed Adjectives

1. Milk, sticky and sour on her dress, attracted every small flying thing from gnats to grasshoppers.
2. It seemed dreadful to see the great beat lying there in agonly, powerless to move and yet powerless to die.
3. The water in this pool has a dark clarity, like smoked glass, transparent but obscure.
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.
5. I am an enthusiastic laudress, capable of sorting a hamper full of clothes into five subtly differentiated piles.

Practice 2
1. They sang like angels, pure and sweet.
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They swam like fish, intent and quick.

Practice 3
1. We knew what her sister was feeling, happy to help.
-We knew we were going fishing, excited to go.

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