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Sentence Tools #5 Identifying Sentence Tools
IDENTIFY THE SENTENCE TOOLS IN THE SENTENCES BELOW. SOME HAVE MORE THAN ONE.
AP-appositive phrase (nouns) P-present participial phrase (-ing , must have commas) PP-past participial phrase (-ed, must have commas) AB-Absolute phrase (begins with his, her, their, both, its, our, my) PREP –prepositional phrase SC-Subordinate Clause (opens with a subordinate conjunction, has a verb)
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| A bald, slight man, he reminded me of a baby bird. | AP |
| The whole congregation prayed for me alone, in a mighty wail of moans and voices | Prep |
| Hated by Federalists and suspected by Republicans, John Quincy Adams returned to private life. | PP |
| Throughout dinner Lucille has been careening wildly from sadness to elation to despair. | Prep |
| The sun was coming over the ridge now, glaring on the whitewash of the houses and barns, making the wet grass blaze softly. | P, P |
| George, sitting on the bunk besides Lenny, frowned as he thought. | P |
| A water snake slipped along on the pool, its head held up like a little periscope. | AB |
| Near one wall there was a black cast iron stove, its stovepipe going straight up through the ceiling. | AB |
| He saw that I was looking at him, so he closed his eyes, sleepily, angrily, then stuck out his tongue. | SC |
| Curled up inside a big one meter drainage pipe, she had her baseball glove in her mouth and she was rocking back and forth, banging her head repeatedly against the back of the pipe. | PP, P |
| Around her waist was a wide pink ribbon, tied in back with a bow. | PP |
| Before she fell into a deep sleep, she just lay quiet, smiling at the ceiling. | SC, P |
| Behind him, walked his opposite, a huge man, shapeless of face. | AP |
| A shy observer, she hesitated on the outskirts of the spirited group, her body hidden behind a flirty girl. | AP, AB |
| Clearing his throat loudly, he stepped out from behind the bookshelves. | P |
| He looked over to where the huge filthy birds sat, their naked heads sunk in the hunched feathers. | AB |
| The most insidious thing about Ronnie was that weak minds found him worth imitating. | SC |
| Numb of all feelings, empty as a shell, still he clung to life, and the hours droned by. | AP |
| She burst into great sobs, her whole body shaking, tears streaming down her face. | AB |
| Bloodthirsty and brutal, the giants brought themselves to the point of extinction by warring amongst themselves during the last century. | AP |
| Cold, dark, and windowless, it stretched the length of the house. | AP |
| Harry got to his feet and set off again as fast as he could without making too much noise, hurrying through the darkness back towards Hogwarts. | P |
| I shivered as he tossed the feathered corpse of the dead chicken, limp as a cloth, into the back of the truck. | Prep |
| Mama was out of bed now, her long black skirt over her nightgown. | AB |
| The ship rose out of the water, gleaming in the moonlight. | P |
| Two hard-faced men, both cradling machine guns, stood watching him closely from the adjacent guard station. | AB |
| I walked along Gilman Street, the best street in town. | AP |
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