Delayed and Opening Adjectives and Adverbs

Identify the opening or delayed adjective phrase: Comfortable, I lay on my back and waited for sleep, and while waiting I thought of Dill.

• waited for sleep

• while waiting I thought of Dill.

• Comfortable

• I lay on my back

Identify the opening or delayed adjective or adjective phrase: Quick as a flash, the boy leaped forward and grabbed the ball from Charles Wallace's hand, then darted back into the shadows.

• and grabbed the ball from Charles Wallace's hand

• Quick as a flash

• then darted back into the shadows.

• darted back into the shadows.

Identify the opening or delayed adjective or adjective phrase: Her eyes glared, sharp and bright, from beneath arched black wings of brows.

• from beneath arched black wings

• sharp and bright

• arched black wings of brows

• Her eyes glared

Identify the opening or delayed adjective or adjective phrase: Harry looked at his mother, who had her back to him, busy at the stove.

• busy at the stove

• who had her back to him

• Harry looked

• Harry looked at his mother

Identify the opening or delayed adjective or adjective phrase: The raft continued on, and they smelled a peculiar odor, sweet and nauseating at the same time.

• The raft continued on, and they smelled a peculiar odor

• they smelled a peculiar odor

• The raft continued on

• sweet and nauseating at the same time

Identify the opening or delayed adjective or adjective phrase: Angry with themselves because they were frightened, they jumped on Teft.

• they jumped on Teft

• because they were frightened

• because they were frightened, they jumped on Teft.

• Angry with themselves because they were frightened

Identify the opening/delayed adjective/adjective phrase: Deeper and deeper, darker and darker, they sloshed through the cavernous sewer.

• Deeper and deeper

• they sloshed

• through the cavernous sewer.

• darker and darker

Identify the opening/delayed adjective/adjective phrase: Slowly, very slowly, the snake raised its head until its eyes were on a level with Harry's.

• Slowly, very slowly

• until its eyes

• none

• the snake raised its head

Identify the opening/delayed adjective/adjective phrase: At one point, a raven, black and lustrous, came flapping out from a bush and flew alongside us.

• a raven,

• black and lustrous

• At one point,

• none

Identify the opening/delayed adjective/adjective phrase: The long-awaited car show opened and filled fast, and the new Jaguar stood out, sleek and shiny.

• filled fast

• sleek and shiny.

• The long-awaited car show

• the new Jaguar stood out