This next snippet has three elements. What are they?
Sajid scowled horribly.
This sentence answers the question:
Who did what and how?
What other sentences could we write using the same pattern?
Maria nodded gratefully.
My mother’s friend was about to leave in a complete rage.
Notice how the last one uses exactly the same pattern, but each of the elements is a word group instead of a single word.
Keep in mind that longer is not necessarily better though!
We can use a 'thing' instead of a 'person' in this pattern, too, just like we did on the previous page.
Koyasan's spine turned to ice.
Summer dragged on painfully slowly.
The supermarket smelled like ice cream and floor polish.
