Writing Book 4 · Lesson 18

Mud Thinks about Doing and Being

Some verbs show action and some only say that something IS.

What you read today

Sentence Island, pages 57–63 — the chapter Mud Thinks about Doing and Being.

This lesson's text is the book itself. Your teacher has the pages; read them with the class, then do the work on your sheet.

Remember
Read it as a writer: not only what happens, but what the author did to make it happen that way.
Ask yourself: “Is anything happening, or is it just telling me something is?”

Remember

Doing, or being — a verb does one or the other.

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