Thys Boke is Myne - Sarah Powley
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Nov 4, 2008
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Richie
Another trick is to eliminate "to-be" verbs: is, am, are, was, were, be, being, and been. These over-used crutches replace vivid verbs and keep the writer chained to the subject-verb-complement sentence structure. Four problem-solving approaches with good examples as to how to revise sentences with "to-be" verbs are found at [link removed].
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