Original Paragraph:
See the old man. He is weak and poor. Once he was a little boy like you. Once he was strong, and brave. Now he is old, and ill, and poor.
Now I am going to write this paragraph with richer detail:
Walking his dog, the old man was ill. The old man, whose name was Richard, walked slowly. He walked all the way home, not once stopping to catch a breath of the cold air.
Appositive is in red
Participial is in purple
Absolute is in Green
1 comment:
An appositive phrase would be more like "the old man, Richard,...." What you have there is a relative clause. "Not once stopping..." is actually a participial phrase rather than an absolute. An absolute has to have a noun being described by the participle. So, something more like "He walked all the way home, his feet slapping the sidewalk...," where "his feet slapping..." is the absolute. See you soon.
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