Tips for English Language

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  • Tips for English Language
    • Be Specific
      • Choose Precise Imagery
    • Deepen descriptive sentences using comparisons
      • Metaphors
      • Similes
    • Minimise '-ly' adverbs
      • WRONG Example: "She fell awkwardly down the hill"
      • CORRECT Example: "She tumbled down the hill"
    • Filter descriptive sentences through characters' Point of view
      • eg. If describing a child
        • How might they describe things compared to how an adult would.
          • Reduced vocabulary, simpler sentence construction
        • How their physical reality might impact their impressions.
          • eg. Being shorter
          • For example, how spaces may look immense compared to how they would appear to an adult.
      • Applies to the character's psychology
        • If your character is gloomy, how would they describe an idyllic landscape compared to a character feeling carefree and overjoyed by their surroundings.
    • Good descriptive sentences
      • Places
        • - It was a palatial home, with high, cool rooms, floors of stone and marble, and elaborately carved furniture with rich upholstery.
        • - Gave way to a soaring, majestic network of thick-set vines, high archway and domed ceilings.
        • - Streaks of gay sunlight darted through the open window.
      • People
        • - A smart gentleman dresses in a flowing brown cloak and a brown bejewelled hat.
        • - He was a fine figure of a man, with very yellow hair and narrow, haughty eyes.
        • - They were dressed in dazzling white robes with gold embroidery.
      • Feelings
        • - Her heart thumped wildly when the audience exploded with loud cheers and claps. She grinned happily under the glory of the spotlight.
        • - His face evidenced the struggle between shame and defiance in his heart.
        • - There was a song in every heart, cheerfulness in every face and a spring in every step.
        • - He looked straight ahead , white-faced, tight-lipped, his expression a mask of suppressed rage.

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