Read this paragraph from a student's essay. Long before Flannery O'Connor found success as a writer, she had a
brief brush with fame. As a five-year-old in Georgia, O'Connor had a
chicken that could walk both forward and backward. In her essay "Living
with a Peacock," O'Connor recalls how a photographer from Pathé News
came from New York to Savannah to film her with her chicken. She
describes how the experience influenced her to raise fowl all her life.
1. Choose two of the bolded nouns or noun phrases. Replace
your choices with noun phrases that provide more detail.
These details don't need to be factually accurate--they just
need to be in the form of noun phrases!
2. Identify the function of each noun phrase you added, and
explain how the phrases affect the paragraph.