Directions:

1. Read each sentence closely to comprehend its message.
2. Identify each part of speech in the following paragraph.
3. When finished, hover the cursor over the sentence to check your answers.

from “The Old Man and the Sea” by Hemingway

They walked up the road together to the old man’s shack and went in through its open door. The old man leaned the mast with its wrapped sail against the wall, and the boy put the box and the other gear beside it. The shack was made of the tough budshields of the royal palm which are called guano and in it there was a bed, a table, one chair, and a place on the dirt floor to cook with charcoal.  On the brown walls of the flattened, overlapping leaves of the sturdy fibered guano there was a picture in color of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and another of the Virgin of Cobre. These were relics of his wife. Once there had been a tinted photograph of his wife on the wall but he had taken it down because it made him too lonely to see it and it was on the shelf in the corner under his clean shirt.

It would be better to gut the dolphin a little later to save the blood in the meet, he thought. Clearly, I can do that a little later and lash the oars to make a drag at the same time. I had better keep the fish quiet now and not disturb him too much at sunset. The setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish. He let his hands dry in the air, then grasped the line with it and eased himself as much as he could and allowed himself to be pulled forward against the wood so that the boat took the strain as much or more than he did. I am clear enough in the head, he thought. Too clear. I am as clear as the stars that are my brothers. Still I must sleep.