Kevan Peabody
Ms. Sabir201a
september 16 2009
Subordinate clause and paraphrases1. Subordinate clause: when her mother came to visit Afeni in prison, she could barely acknowledge her daughters new identity.Free paraphrase: Afenis mom was not able to recognize her when she was in jail.2. Subordinate clause: When Afeni became pregnant, she hoped that her sister would raise her child, since she and her comrades faced 352 years in prison on 156 counts and assumed they would be convicted.Free Paraphrase: Afeni wanted her sister to take care of her baby when she realized that she was going to prison.3. Subordinate Clause: When mama is also lover, she draws the wrath of her male peers.Free Paraphrase: Many men like Afeni because she is a lover.Subordinate Clause: As tupacs godfather, Black panther Elmer “ Pratt remarks, the artist “was born into the movement”.Free Paraphrase: Elmer Pratt said Tupac was burn in the revolution.4. Subordinate Clause: As he won fame and money, he brooked no ideological limits on what he could say and how he could live.Free Paraphrase: Tupac did and said what he wanted as he got more popular and more of a star.5. Subordinate clause: As they touted anticapitalist beliefs, some of the party’s chief icons lived luxuriously, even dissolutely, at the expense of the proletarian rank and file.Free Paraphrase: anticapitalist lived in good conditions and still hade their beliefs.6. Subordinate clause: “ if they had too many toys they gave them away,” Afeni recalls, “and I was not rich.Free paraphrase: When Afeni had more toys than needed for tupac, she let others kids have them.7. Subordinate clause: If such practices appeared distasteful from a distance, up close they were downright ugly.Free paraphrase :when something doesn’t look good from far away it looks more worse near it.8. Subordinate clause: because he was a child who was there he knew what they did and what they didn’t do.Free paraphrase: He was a kid that knew everything that went on and what didn’t go on.9. Subordinate clause: when you talk about the pain that a child felt, especially when you realize that you cant change it, its hard,” she says.Free paraphrase: When you realize the bad situations a kid has been through, and see that you cant reverse what happen, its difficult.10. Subordinate clause: As the child of a panther, and second -generation revolutionary of sorts, tupac was all too familiar with the police.Free paraphrase: tupac already knew about the police because he grew up having to deal with them.
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