Read the paragraph. Rewrite the altered excerpt from Ray Bradbury's "All Summer in a Day" with the correct punctuation for fluen
cy. The children lay out laughing, on the jungle mattress, and heard it sigh and squeak under them, resilient and alive They ran among the trees they slipped and fell they pushed each other they played hide-and-seek and tag, but most of all they squinted at the sun until the tears ran down their faces, they put their hands up to that yellowness and that amazing blueness and they breathed of the fresh fresh air and listened and listened to the silence which suspended them in a blessed sea of no sound and no motion They looked at everything and savored everything Then wildly like animals escaped from their caves they ran and ran in shouting circles They ran for an hour and did not stop running.
Answer: The children lay out laughing, on the jungle mattress, and heard it sigh and squeak under them, resilient and alive. They ran among the trees they slipped and fell they pushed each other. They played hide-and-seek and tag, but most of all they squinted at the sun until the tears ran down their faces. They put their hands up to that yellowness and that amazing blueness and they breathed of the fresh fresh air and listened to the silence which suspended them in a blessed sea of no sound and no motion. They looked at everything and savored everything. Then wildly like animals escaped from their caves they ran and ran in shouting circles. They ran for an hour and did not stop running.
Prepositional phrases: There are no prepositional phrases since there is neither a preposition nor an object altogether.
The subject is <em>Harry's father.</em>
The verb within the sentence is<em> is</em>.
There is one complement in the sentence which is subject compliment: <em>Seattle's wealthiest citizen.</em> Remember that subject complements give us more information about the subject and they usually occur after linking verbs (seem, be, become) and, in this sentence, the subject complement is preceded by the verb <em>is.</em>