Friday, April 17, 2009

Alice in Wonderland

Original Paragraph:
In another moment Alice was through the glass, and jumped lightly down into the Looking-glass room. The very first thing she did was to look whether there was a fire in the fireplace, and she was quite pleased to find that there was a real one, blazing away as brightly as the one she had left behind. "So I shall be as warm here as I was in the old room," thought Alice: "warmer, in fact, because there'll be no one here to scold me away from the fire. Oh, what fun it'll be, when they see me through the glass in here, and can't get at me!"

The following sentence is one I re-wrote to include an appositive and an absolute phrase:

In another moment Alice, her hair flowing behind her, was through the glass, and jumping lightly down into the Looking-glass room, a bright airy space.

I think Lewis Carroll did a great job writing this story. It is very interesting and fun. I think it would be cool to jump through a looking glass.
Prepositional Phrase
Participial Phrase
Absolute Phrase
Appositive Phrase

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