Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Absolutes
This exercise will give you a chance to apply the principles introduced in Building Sentences
with Absolute Phrases. Combine the sentences in each set below into a single clear sentence
with at least one absolute phrase. Here's an example:
Sample combination:
His teeth chattering, his palm extended, the paperboy stood shivering in the doorway.
4. The raccoon goes down on all fours and strides slowly off.
Her slender front paws are reaching ahead of her.
Her slender front paws are like the hands of an experienced swimmer.
8. An elderly woman shuffles slowly to a park bench and sits down heavily.
Her wig is slightly askew.
Her wig is ash-blond.
Her wig is showing tuffs of hair.
The hair was thin.
The hair was gray.