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WORD CHOICE
A USING DESCRIPTIVE WORDS
DESCRIPTIVE WORDS clearly describe your topic. Avoid plain words like
good, bad, nice, went, and said. Instead, use more vivid words like delicious,
horrible, raced, and yelled. These words give your reader a clear picture
about your idea. Look at these sentences:
The big girl went home. (plain)
The 7-foot girl raced home on her red tricycle. (interesting)
EXAMPLE INTERESTING
The monster movie gave me nightmares.
PLAIN
The movie was scary. The art class is very exciting.
The angry teacher screamed NO!
The class is good.
She said no.
YOUR
TURN Add DESCRIPTIVE WORDS to make these sentences more interesting.
1.The forest creature was enormous .
2.His fur was . nice good
thundering
3.The creature in the trees. bad appeared
green fluffy
4.His roar was . was
20 ✷ Part I
A USING DESCRIPTIVE WORDS
DESCRIPTIVE WORDS clearly describe your topic. Avoid plain words like
good, bad, nice, went, and said. Instead, use more vivid words like delicious,
horrible, raced, and yelled. These words give your reader a clear picture
about your idea. Look at these sentences:
The big girl went home. (plain)
The 7-foot girl raced home on her red tricycle. (interesting)
EXAMPLE INTERESTING
The monster movie gave me nightmares.
PLAIN
The movie was scary. The art class is very exciting.
The angry teacher screamed NO!
The class is good.
She said no.
YOUR
TURN Add DESCRIPTIVE WORDS to make these sentences more interesting.
1.The forest creature was enormous .
2.His fur was . nice good
thundering
3.The creature in the trees. bad appeared
green fluffy
4.His roar was . was
20 ✷ Part I
