1. Place parentheses ( ) around each prepositional phrase. 2. Underline every finite verb twice, its subject(s) once, and label any complements (“PA,” “PN,” “IO,” or “DO”). 3. Make a rectangle around each verbal. 1. They came to a hollow, like a small amphitheatre, surrounded by perpendicular precipices.
2. The spirits influenced the weather, spreading sunshine or clouds over the landscape, and sending
good or bad hunting seasons.
3. She dwelt on the highest peak of the Catskills, and had charge of the doors of day and night to open and shut them at the proper
hour.
4. Panting and fatigued, he threw himself, late in the afternoon, on a green knoll, covered with mountain herbage, that crowned the brow of a precipice.
5. Supposing the figure to be some one of the neighborhood in need of his assistance, he hastened down to yield it.
6. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder, for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps, and up hill and down dale, to shoot a few squirrels or wild pigeons. |
