Read this paragraph from a student's essay. Edgar Poe was born January 19, 1809, to traveling actors in Boston. By the time Poe
was a toddler, his father had left the family, and his mother had died. Poe was sent
to live with the wealthy Allan family in Richmond, Virginia. John Allan wanted Poe to
become a businessman, but Poe had other plans. On the backs of business papers,
Poe wrote poetry. When Poe was thirteen years old, he had already written enough
poetry to publish a book. John Allan, however, didn't support that idea.
Choose one of the bolded nouns, pronouns or noun phrases. Replace your choices
with a noun phrase that provides more detail. These details do not need to factually
accurate, they just need to be in the form of noun phrases.