MC 2010 Chapter : Chapter 1
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Associated press news cooperative: digital and print operations, covers news around the world, important to all use the same style (refer to stylebook) Active verb: describes an action performed by the subject of a clause: svo: the board approved the policy, carpenter clobbered jones with a round-house right to the head late in the fifth round. The verb is active if: the subject is the doer of the action; the object is the recipient of the action: residents poured from their homes as the procession advanced. The hearse passed families sitting on the hoods of cars, their children wrapped in the colorful blankets. One couple stood at the side of the road, their heads bowed. A boy on horseback watched with his dig near a barbed wire fence. A man with a rusty pickup stared from atop a grassy hill. Supercharges active verbs: shred, snatch, grimace, dissect, inoculate. Mild-mannered active verbs: go, get, have, move, own.
