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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.

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!
Identify the function of each noun phrase you added, and explain how the phrases affect the paragraph.

ExplanStudents should replace at least two of the bolded choices with noun phrases and correctly state the functions of those phrases. Sample response:

---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 talented feathered companion. She describes how the experience influenced her to raise chickens, ducks, and peacocks all her life.

--Noun phrase: her talented feathered companion; function: object of a preposition

--Noun phrase: chickens, ducks, and peacocks; function: direct objectation: