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I like to use gerunds in my writing and I wonder if I'm overdoing it. I wrote this paragraph: I couldn’t help thinking to myself, who is this woman on the phone? And if it’s not Burns’ mother t...
#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T04:59:38Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/20694 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
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trin carl
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2019-12-08T04:59:38Z (almost 5 years ago)
I like to use gerunds in my writing and I wonder if I'm overdoing it. I wrote this paragraph: > I couldn’t help **thinking** to myself, who is this woman on the phone? And if it’s not Burns’ mother then why does she want to speak with Burns? Monica’s purse was rattling again and I walked back out to the living room to find her **sitting** down. She took out what I believed was a handheld tape recorder. “Oops,” she said, **placing** the item back in her purse. I started using gerunds a lot because readers were commenting that I needed more dialogue tags besides s/he said. Dialogue tags coupled with gerunds seemed to help.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2016-01-28T20:57:37Z (almost 9 years ago)
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