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2 Image Grammar Brushstroke #1

3 Adjective + Adjective Make sure you are jotting this information down This brush stroke will not only review parts of speech, but it will also illuminate your writing

4 Painting with Adjectives Use an adjective + an adjective to describe a noun or pronoun in a sentence. Play around with the order, the adjectives can go anywhere

5 Heres an example Old and wrinkled, the woman smiled upon her newborn great-grandson. Now lets try one of yours!

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10 Brush Stroke #2 Painting with infinitive verbs

11 What is an infinitive verb? An infinitive verb is a verb in its raw form For example: dance, sing, talk, smoke, jump Words like: dancing, sung, talked, jumps…all have endings that change the meaning or significance of the word

12 How do you use this technique? Here is an example: To bake a cake, you must have all of the ingredients. OR To dance, you must have rhythm.

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17 Brush Stroke #3 Painting with Absolutes

18 What is an Absolute In easy terms, an absolute is a noun + an ing word Example: Engine smoking, gears grinding, the car chugged into the parking lot.

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23 Brush Stroke #4 Painting with Active verbs

24 What is a passive verb? A passive verb is a verb that utilizes one of the forms of to be Is, am, are, was, were, be, being, been Example: The grocery store was robbed.

25 Active Verbs Example: Two armed men robbed the grocery store.

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