3.4: Clarifying General Statements

3.4: Clarifying General Statements Rewrite each of these statements to make it more specific by making general and abstract words more concrete and precise. Add details and examples.

When you’re done with this activity, compare your answers to the authors’.

1. My neighbor has a lot of animals that she keeps in her yard. "My next-door neighbor, Sandy, has three small mixed breed dogs and five German Shepards that she keeps in dog-runs in her back yard." 2. When I was a little girl, we lived in a big house in the Midwest. "When I was four years old, my family lived in a five-bedroom Victorian house in Madison, Wisconsin." 3. My husband works for a large newspaper. "My husband, Raoul, is the sports editor for the Chicago Tribune." 4. She got up late and had to rush to get to school. But she was late anyway. "Janet overslept by half an hour, so she didn’t get to take a shower or eat breakfast, and she had to park in the outer lot and take the shuttle bus into campus. But she was still an hour late for her chemistry lab. " 5. Where’d you find that thing? "Where'd you buy the necklace you're wearing?" 6. I really liked going to that concert. The music was great. "I was so excited to be at the Pearl Jam concert! Our seats were great—we could see the whole stage. And they played all of my favorite songs." 7. I really respect her. "I really respect Tomika. Last week she had an opportunity to retake a test she had flunked, and even though she was jammed up with other work, she studied for over six hours and got an A." 8. My boyfriend looks like a hippie. "My boyfriend, Ray, has hair that hangs to his shoulders, and he has a tattoo of a heart with my name in it on his left forearm." 9. She was wearing a very trendy outfit. "Nola was wearing a long aqua chiffon scarf tied in her hair and a short-sleeved cherry-red cropped T-shirt that exposed her navel." 10. We need to have more freedom to choose our courses. "Senior biology majors should be able to choose courses without getting the signature of their advisors."