sentence patterns and "the lottery"




Quiet and serious, Bobby Jones selected the perfect stone. (Adjectives out of order)


Suddenly, carefully, the towns folks started to throw rocks at Mrs. Hutchinson (adverbs out of order)


Mr. Summers, standing in front of the crowd began to call people up to pull there names from the black box. (Participial phrase)



Thinking to himself, Mr. Hutchinson thought it would be best to be quiet. (Gerund phrase)


After thinking about what piece of paper he got he thought it was best to not look until everyone else had. (gerund-object of preposition)