1. ‘Blunt’s eyes, magnifi ed by the thick lenses of his spectacles, lasered into his own and for a moment Alex felt himself pinned down …’
2. ‘Something very close to an emotion slithered over his face.’
The use of the verbs ‘lasered’ and ‘slithered’ to describe the reactions of Mr Blunt tells us a lot about this character. It is important to make sure we use interesting and descriptive verbs in our writing, as they can help to develop our characters and improve our storytelling.
Can you rewrite these two sentences with other interesting verbs? Go to your Writing Skills Book to try it out.
P. 53
Contractions
Can you fi nd the contraction in this paragraph?
When we speak, we often run words together. Our words become contracted (shrunk or made smaller). You’ll remember from Collection 5 that one use of the apostrophe is to show possession. Another use is in these contractions. The letters that are left out of the words when they are written down are represented by an apostrophe.
