Syntax practice for paper 1
January 24, 2022•315 words
Analyse the writers’ use of passive verb construction and repetition in the following
examples (italics mine):
a) We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 77
repetition "kind" - emphasis, not main focus, afterthought, irrelevant, it's worth less than the other words and therefore has to repeat it
verb construction - present, past, present tense.
b) They sailed and trailed and flew and raced and crawled and walked and were carried,
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