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Our committee meeting is in the library. (Pattern _______) 3. His excuse sounded plausible. (Pattern _______) 4. The weasel sleeps in his underground den. (Pattern _______) 5. The bus from Flagstaff arrived at two o’clock. (Pattern _______) 6. The players were at spring training. (Pattern _______) 7. The public transportation in our area is unreliable. Seemingly invisible bits of nature become visible with Annie Dillard’s words. (Pattern _______) The Basic Transitive Verb Pattern Transitive verbs are the other action verbs.
An American Childhood And Barbara Ehrenreich doesn’t tell us that she was glad her day of hard work as a housecleaner was over; she shows us: I rush home to the Blue Haven [Motel] at the end of the day, pull down the blinds for privacy, strip off my uniform in the kitchen—the bathroom being too small for both a person and her discarded clothes—and stand in the shower for a good ten minutes, thinking all this water is mine. I have paid for it. In fact, I have earned it. —Nickel and Dimed A well-chosen verb not only heightens the drama of a sentence and makes its meaning clear but also sends a message to the reader that the writer has crafted the sentence carefully, that the idea matters.
Both notions are oversimplified. In Chapter 7 we take up the topic of fancy words in the discussion of diction. Here we consider the effectiveness of short sentences, many of which are bare-bones patterns. ” Dillard uses many such sentences in her prose—sometimes with other patterns, sometimes with an added adverbial, but still very short. The following examples are from her book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek: Today is the winter solstice. In September the birds were quiet. I live in tranquility and trembling.