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Appositives
Participles
Opening Adverbs
Appositive or Participle
Adverb or Adjective
100
A noun or word is followed by another noun or phrase that renames or identifies it
What is an Appositive?
100
A verb acting as an adjective.
What is a participle?
100
Identify opening adverb: Outside, I found a taxi for her.
Outside
100
The child was peeking around the door silently, looking at the smiles on the teachers and parents, hearing their gentle laughter sound quietly.
Participle
100
Aggressively, the giant charged Jack.
Adverb
200
Identify the Appositive: I walked along Gilman Street, the best street in town.
the best street in town.
200
There are this many types of participles.
What is three?
200
Identify opening adverb: Incredibly, the man was still chasing after us.
Incredibly
200
The clown, covered in make-up, went to the birthday party.
participle
200
Calm and steady, the surgeon operated on the patient.
adjective
300
Identify the appositive: The judge, an old, bowlegged fellow in a pale-blue sweater, had stopped examining the animals and was reading over some notes he had taken on the back of a dirty envelope.
an old, bowlegged fellow in a pale-blue sweater,
300
Irregular participles are a part of this type of participles.
What is past participles?
300
Harry was small and tough, a boy going through life with his chin stuck out a mile.
appositive
300
Above and below, the sharks swam in circles.
Adverbs
400
Identify appositive: My bed was an army cot, one of those affairs which are made wife enough to sleep on comfortably only by putting up, flat with the middle section, the two sides which ordinarily hang down like the sideboards of a drop-lead table.
one of those affairs which are made wife enough to sleep on comfortably only by putting up, flat with the middle section, the two sides which ordinarily hang down like the sideboards of a drop-lead table.
400
Identify the participle of participial phrase: The sun rose clear and bright, tinging the foamy crests of the waves with a reddish purple.
tinging the foamy crests of the waves with a reddish purple.
400
Slow, methodically, miserably, she ate the jellied bread.
Slow, methodically, miserably,
400
Ralston, going down the staircase backward, was very unsteady.
Participle
400
Delicately, the man fixed the rip in the shirt.
Adverb
500
Identify appositive: "Missouri" is a special casserole, a blend of potatoes and stewed tomatoes and hamburger.
a blend of potatoes and stewed tomatoes and hamburger.
500
Identify the participle: She called to him, excited.
excited.
500
Identify opening adverb: Then, slowly, he fell to his knees and pitched forward onto the road, blood pooling red on the black asphalt.
Then, slowly
500
I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, not that it stood between me and desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play. What is "ugly monotonous child's play?"
Appositive
500
Slow and weary, the traveler arrived into the town.
adjective