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Graveyard Words
“Don’t you dare put these words in your essays!”
1.) Vague references to numbers
Many Lots A lot A bunch
2.) Words that are slang or colloquial language
Ain’t Gonna Back in the day Nowadays Really Guy
Crap Sucks Kids Cause (as in because) Cuz Dakine
3.) Vague references to specific items
Stuff Things Something Anything Dakine
4.) Vague references to emotions
Fun Nice Happy Sad Mad
Good Bad Awesome
5.) Weak verbs:
to get to do to make to have
getting does makes has
gets did made had
got doing making having
to show to be to let
shows am let
showing is lets
shown are letting
showed were
was
being
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Choose your worst offenders --at least one from each list of the five categories.
List those words.
Next to each offending word, write a more precise or powerful word that could replace the words you chose from the list.
Due Date: Tuesday March 31st. Equals 50 points.
