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The best way to engage your reader is by crafting sentences with compelling action verbs. However,\u00a0 it’s much easier to use dull, passive forms of “to-be” when talking\u00a0 talking about ideas or abstract concepts.\u00a0 When you finish your first draft, it helps to highlight all of the instances\u00a0 of “is”, “are”, “were”, and “was”,\u00a0 and maybe even “have”, “has” and “had” to see how frequently you depend on these verbs. Then you can explore possible alternatives.<\/p>\n

Here’s a a worksheet of strong action verbs organized by genre.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The best way to engage your reader is by crafting sentences with compelling action verbs. However,\u00a0 it’s much easier to use dull, passive forms of “to-be” when talking\u00a0 talking about ideas or abstract concepts.\u00a0 When you finish your first draft, it helps to highlight all of the instances\u00a0 of “is”, “are”, “were”, and “was”,\u00a0 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":376,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,74],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-writing-tips","category-graduate-students","tag-passive-voice","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}