Conclusion to Word Groups

These desks had the usual

🏆
Checkpoint page
Your replies on this page can be graded by your teacher

Here's another snippet from the same Roald Dahl passage. What's distinctive about this one?

These desks had the usual sloping wooden tops with a narrow flat strip at the far end where there was a groove to hold your pen and a small hole in the right-hand side in which the ink-well sat. 

Boy(1984)

This snippet is also about elaborate noun groups and lots of prepositional phrases.

It's a description of the components of a desk, so the prepositional phrases are all about clarifying where things are positioned and what they are for.

Here are a couple of examples that also use long prepositional phrases to describe the components of something:

The mountains made an impenetrable barrier with sheer black cliffs at the base from which rose a jagged curtain of icy peaks and a dark crown of storm clouds in which purple lightning twitched.

Master Abel had a peculiar set of glowing spears in a locked cabinet behind a secret bookshelf which held dozens of pamphlets about guerilla warfare and a three-volume encyclopedia on obscure treatments for magical burns and injuries.

Write your own description of the components of something. Aim to describe three components/things each with prepositional phrases expanding on the details.
Previous page