Read the following excerpt of “A Dark Brown Dog” by Stephen Crane.
“A Child was standing on a street-corner. He leaned with one shoulder against a high board-fence and swayed the other to and fro, the while kicking carelessly at the gravel.
Sunshine beat upon the cobbles, and a lazy summer wind raised yellow dust which trailed in clouds down the avenue. Clattering trucks moved with indistinctness through it. The child stood dreamily gazing.
After a time, a little dark-brown dog came trotting with an intent air down the sidewalk. A short rope was dragging from his neck. Occasionally he trod upon the end of it and stumbled […]”.
Taking the excerpt into account and the information about adjectives, analyze the following statements.
I. Adjectives are used to give characteristics to something and, in this excerpt, we have them being used to describe not only the dog, but also the fence, the wind, the trucks, etc.
II. Some examples of adjectives are: “high”, “lazy”, “clattering”, and “short”, describing “the fence”, “the wind”, “the trucks”, and “the rope”, respectively.
III. The sentence “a lazy summer wind raised yellow dust which trailed in clouds down the avenue” has three adjectives: “lazy”, “summer”, “yellow”, being the first two to describe the wind and the third to describe the dust.
IV. On the sentence “After a time, a little dark-brown dog came trotting with an intent air down the sidewalk”, the expression “dark-brown” is related to the color of the dog.
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