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Paint with Action Verb Brush Strokes

Paint with Action Verb Brush Strokes . What are action verbs?. An action verb is a word that expresses action. It may be made up of more than one word. An action verb can be physical (shout, arrive) or mental (memorize, forget). Examples. The director shouts at the members of the cast.

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Paint with Action Verb Brush Strokes

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  1. Paint with Action Verb Brush Strokes

  2. What are action verbs? • An action verb is a word that expresses action. • It may be made up of more than one word. • An action verb can be physical (shout, arrive) or mental (memorize, forget). Day 1

  3. Examples • The director shouts at the members of the cast. • The lights are flashing above the stage. • The audience arrived in time for the performance. • Several singers have memorized the lyrics of a song. Day 1

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  7. Specific and General Nouns

  8. What is a noun? • A noun is a word that names a person, a place, a thing, or an idea.

  9. Examples • Persons: sister, mayor, coach, children, George Washington, Jessica Alba • Places: park, lake, playground, city, Houston, Alabama, America, France • Things: magazine, boots, rose, peach, Titanic, ship, Statue of Liberty • Ideas: honesty, truth, democracy, pride, maturity, progress, courage

  10. How can you make this sentence more specific? The person jumped along the street. Sally jumped along Sunset Boulevard.

  11. Paint with Adjectives Out-of-Order

  12. What are adjectives? • An adjective is a word that describes, or modifies, a noun or a pronoun. • They answer one of three questions: • What kind? We studied ancient history. • How many? I read four chapters. • Which one? That invention changed history.

  13. Paint with Appositive Brush Strokes

  14. What is an appositive? • An appositive is a noun that is placed next to another noun to identify it or add information to it. • Appositives can appear anywhere in a sentence as long as they are right next to the noun they identify.

  15. Examples • James Madison’s wife, Dolly, was a famous first lady. • The noun, Dolly, tells us James Madison’s wife’s name. Dolly is an appositive. • Notice how it is set off from the sentence by commas. This is how we punctuate appositives.

  16. Examples, cont’d • Sometimes you can use more than one word to make an appositive. • Madison, our fourth president, held many other offices. • “Our fourth president” tells us more information about Madison and it is set off by commas. “Our fourth president” is an appositive.

  17. Revising with Appositive Brush Strokes • If you have two sentences and one of them has a being verb you can combine them with an appositive in place of the being verb.

  18. Paint with Participle Brush Strokes

  19. What is a participle? • There are two kinds of participles present and past. • Present participles are verbs that end in –ing. • Past participles are verbs that end in –d or –ed. • In order to use a participle as a brush stroke the participle cannot be the main verb in the sentence.

  20. Examples • Sitting quietly, Erik loses himself in the music. • Playing the piano, Eric taps his foot along to the beat. • Dreaming of fame, Eric sits at the piano. • Lingering at the door, Brent waited for his friend.

  21. One word Participles • Instead of using a phrase (Jumping in place) you can use a combination of one word participles at the beginning or end of a sentence to create drama. • Jumping in place, Mike skipped rope. • Leaping, sweating, smiling, Mike skipped rope.

  22. Warning! • Make sure that your participle brush stroke comes right before or right after the noun that you are describing. • Singing, splashing, and laughing the swimmer attracted the shark. • The swimmer is the one singing, splashing and laughing so it is the noun closest to the participle brush stroke.

  23. Warning! Cont’d • Singing, splashing, and laughing, the shark was attracted to the swimmer. • Is the shark singing, splashing, and laughing? • MAKE SURE THAT YOU PUT THE CORRECT NOUN NEXT TO YOUR PARTICIPLE BRUSH STROKE!

  24. Paint with Absolute Brush Strokes

  25. What is an absolute? • An absolute is a noun followed by a verb that ends in –ing.

  26. Examples • Mind racing • Anxiety overtaking • Jaws cracking • Tongue curling

  27. Examples Cont’d • Don’t think that you have to stick to two words if you have something more involved in mind

  28. Digits glowing florescent blue in the inky darkness of my room, my clock edged its way toward midnight. Notice that it still begins with a noun and an –ing word

  29. Helpful Hint!It is always a good idea to create your simple sentence before adding your absolutes! If you do this, then you know that you have used yourbrush stroke correctly!

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