Wednesday, October 29, 2008

To Live - Grammar and Usage Practice and Application

  1. Participle (ing or ed verb tagged on to the beginning or end of a sentence to evoke action) With an instrument, Fugui was singing along with the puppet show.
  2. Absolute (a noun combined with an ing or ed participle added onto a main sentence to expand details and create more action) Fugui kneeled behind the puppet curtain, with the whole body curled, unable to move.
  3. Adjectives Shifted Out of Order (shift some adjectives after a noun to spotlight and intensify the image) On the walls outside of Fugui's house was a picture of Mao, which was nearly as big as the wall, smiling and independent with the Little Red Book.
  4. Action Verbs (eliminate passive vioce and replace being verbs with action verbs to create a motion picture and bring inanimate object to life) When the death comes to the family, it arrives silently and mysteriously.
  5. Appositive (add a second noun image to a main subject) There would be a scene of hapiness - the family together around the small table in the house.
  6. Methods for Painting Characters

By describing an action of the character Fugui was lost

By sharing specific speech of the character We'll call him little bun

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