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Show, Don't Tell: Precise Verbs and Sentence Combining — Homework
No outside reading this week -- focus on your own sentences.
- 1.Revise "She was excited" into a showing sentence using one concrete action.
- 2.Combine using a subordinating conjunction: "The bell rang. Nobody moved."
- 3.Combine the same two sentences with a coordinating conjunction instead, and explain how the implied relationship changes.
- 4.Find one "telling" sentence in something you wrote recently and revise it into a showing sentence.
- 5.Explain why too much "showing" language, used everywhere, can actually slow a piece of writing down.
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