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Absolute Phrases Worksheet 2Part 1: Matching Match the opening adjectives with the sentences. Write out the sentence, inserting and underlining the absolute phrases. Sentences: Absolute Phrases:1. She returned to her bench, ^. Theodore Dresiser, An American Tragedya. his eyes bulging in the dark.2. The boy watched, ^. Edmund Ware, “An Underground Episode”b. his long robes flying in the wind of his speed3. ^, he reached a flat place at the top. Richard Connell, “The Most Dangerous Game.”c. her face showing all the unhappiness that had suddenly overtaken her.4. Miss Hearne, ^, hardly listened to these words. Brian Moore, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearned. her face burning5. An Aran on a motercycle, ^, passed John at such a clip that the spirals of dust from his turnings on the winding road looked like little tornadoes. Elizabth Yates, “Standing in Another’s Shoes.”e. His hands raw,Part 2: Unscrambling to Imitate In the model and the scrambled list, identify the absolute phrase. Next, unscramble and write out the sentence parts to imitate the model. Finally, write your own imitation of the model and identify the absolute phrase. MODEL: The motorcycle on the sidewalk speeded up and skidded obliquely into a plate-glass window, the front wheel bucking and climbing the brick base beneath the window. Frank Rooney, “Cyclist’s Raid”a. the other customers rallying and demanding the same reduction in the costb. one customer in line spoke outc. about the unfair priced. and ranted countinuouslyYou: Part 3: Combining to ImitateIn the model, identify the absolute phrase. Next, combine the list of sentences to imitate the model. Finally, write down your own imitation of the model and identify the absolute phrase. MODEL: He returned, shuddering, five minutes later, his arms soaked and red to the elbows.Ray Bradbury, “A Sound of Thunder”a. This sentence is about Kelly.b. She left.c. She was smiling.d. This happened a minute before.e. Her Andrew Wyeth print was matted.f. Her Andrew Wyeth print was framed.g. The frame was green.You:Part 4: ImitatingIdentify the absolute phrases in the models and sample imitations. Then write an imitation of each model sentence, one sentence at a time. Models:1. Six boys came over the hill half an hour early that afternoon, running hard, their heads down, their forearms working, their breath whistling.John Steinbeck, The Red PonySample: Three students came to Ms. Ringelspaugh early that morning, crying hard, their noses red, their cheeks tear-streaked, their noses running.You:2. Outside, his carpetbag in hand, he stood for a long time in the barnyard.Peter Abrahams, Tell FreedomSample: Inside, her hands in her pockets Ms. Ringelspaugh leaned against the wall for a short time in her classroom.You:3. He walked with a prim strut, swinging out his legs in a half circle with each step, his heels biting smartly into the red velvet carpet on the floor.Carson McCullers, “The Jocky”Sample: Ms. Kotlowski stode with an authoritative pace, clicking her high heels with each step, her arms swinging competently by her side. You: Part 5: ExpandingThe absolute phrases are omitted at the caret mark (^) in the following sentences. For each caret, add and absolute phrase, blending your content and style with the rest of the sentence. 1. How, in the waning daylight, he turned into Glover Street toward his home, ^.Norman Katkov, “The Torn Invitation”2. As they drove off, Wilson saw her standing under the big tree, looking pretty rather than beautiful in her faintly rosy kaki, ^, ^.Ernest Hemingway, “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber3. In front of the house where we lived, the mountain went down steeply to the little plain along the lake, and we sat on the porch of the house in the sun and saw the winding of the road down the mountain-side and the terraced vine-yards on the side of the lower mountain, ^ and ^, and below the vineyards, ^.Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms ................
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