Activity for Brett Cassette
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| Edit | Post #6306 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #6303 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Cutting down on paragraph size I hope this explains what's been said as opposed to reiterating it. -ing phrases slow the pace. Subsidiary clauses slow the pace. You're writing action. Don't slow the pace. Modern middle school English teachers ask students for sentence variation. -ing phrases are a common result. These phrases may... (more) |
— | over 11 years ago |
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A: Is it really necessary to add things like "I thought, I wondered, etc," in first-person narrative? It is not necessary to tag these thoughts in first, second, or third person narration. In third person narration, the unattributed thought or narrative embodiment of the speaker's voice is called free indirect discourse, and James Wood writes about it extensively in early sections of How Fiction Work... (more) |
— | over 11 years ago |