By Jefferey Strausser
Titles in Barron's Painless sequence are textbook vitamins designed specially for school room use through middle-school and highschool scholars. The technique of every name is an attract scholars who imagine that the topic is dull, or too tough, or either. The authors, all skilled educators, take a gentle method, displaying teenagers what's finest approximately every one topic, and the way possible tough difficulties will be reworked into enjoyable quizzes, brain-ticklers, and hard puzzles with rational options. this is sensible suggestion that transforms essay writing right into a pleasant event for heart tuition and senior highschool scholars. the writer bargains tips about enlivening writing with bright photographs, smoothing out sentences, silencing the uninteresting passive voice, and including rhythm to writing. He additionally indicates the way to create a template that scholars can use while writing study papers for all topics. additionally, scholars will locate site reference s brought up during the textual content, which they could entry. mind ticklers (short quizzes) seem in the course of the e-book with a solution key on the again.
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The prepositions decreased from 14 to just 3, thereby creating a more clear and concise paragraph. To review, the five-step process associated with this first technique is 29 PAI1 1/31/05 10:07 AM Page 30 CLEAN UP PREPOSITION CLUTTER Step One: Examine your writing for compound prepositional phrases. Once identified, replace each compound prepositional phrase with a simple preposition. Step Two: Where possible, convert candidate prepositional phrases into participles. Step Three: Where possible, convert candidate prepositional phrases into adverbs.
Nonetheless, it is this tighter fit with the sentence’s subject that connects the reader. Also, refer to page 51 for a more extensive listing of vivid verbs. Use these action verbs and watch your writing come alive. 50 PAI2 1/31/05 10:11 AM Page 51 SELECTING ACTION VERBS Selected General Verbs with Their Substitute Vivid Verbs walk talk look listen stroll chat glance eavesdrop traipse belittle gawk heed ramble debate gaze attend roam cajole stare detect meander prattle peep overhear like run think need admire scamper meditate covet cherish scramble picture wish value hustle ruminate desire honor flee contemplate fancy revere dash imagine crave help give stop come encourage impart fetter appear abet bestow desist emerge support beget check arise uphold confer arrest occur back donate curtail surface tell make show want narrate engender exemplify aspire chronicle coerce reveal fancy announce produce divulge yearn urge fabricate proclaim covet deduce erect explain crave 51 PAI2 1/31/05 10:11 AM Page 52 ENLIVEN YOUR WRITING BRAIN TICKLERS Set # 12 Use the previous list showing the possible vivid verb substitutes to rewrite the following sentences that use weak, general verbs.
I rushed about the house as I tried to prepare for the party. 7. The boys spent all day looking at the cute girls. 8. The politicians spent hours talking about what was the proper course of action. 9. Jim wanted an ice cream bar all day. 10. The art exhibit showed that Picasso was the greatest artist of that era. Refer to page 220 for some possible sentences. htm Do not count on adverbs to help We have already witnessed in Claire that a general adverb did not portray a strong mental image. The weak adverb/verb combination is relatively ineffective compared to the vivid verb.