A Simple Fix: -ing Verbs

I love Dr. Seuss, but there's one of his books I always edit as I read. Bartholomew and the Oobleck just has an overabundance of passive -ing verbs. Example:



       With an angry roar, the oobleck was suddenly hitting the palace harder. It was battering and spattering against the walls as big as greenish buckets full of gooey asparagus soup!

       Like a sinking sailboat, the whole palace was springing leaks. The oobleck was ripping the windows right off their hinges.

       It was...
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Published on February 16, 2011 03:16
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