Descriptive Paragraphs

Descriptive paragraphs are generally held together by adverbs. Descriptions of people are especially successful if they are less posed and more like a candid camera shot.  As an example I give you the paragraph below.

Snow fell softly and the sidewalks were wet but Mrs Mable Stalling had on her galoshes and enjoyed feeling the crunch of thick, crusty snow under her feet. She walked slowly, big flakes falling on her lamb skin coat and clinging to hair over her ears, the slowly falling snow giving her, in her thick warm coat, a fine feeling of self indulgence. She stood at the corner of Walnut and Highland, an impressive looking woman, tall, slim and good looking for fifty, watching the traffic signal.

Whether a paragraph makes it’s full point depends on the way a reader is led form one statement to the next. The meaning should be obvious to the reader. To make sure of this, the writer usually needs to check his paragraphs, taking the readers point of view. If it’s difficult to go from one statement to the next the reader will be thrown off track.  Each sentence must be firmly tied together and make a consistant chain of thought.

There are a number of ways to show the connection between statements naturally and simply. Relationship can be shown by:

Continuing the same subject from sentence to sentence, using the same words, synonyms, or pronouns.

Using some words of the first sentence, perhaps the object, at the beginning of the second, or as the subject.

Using a pronoun referring to a word in the preceding sentence.

Using a conjunction of adverb (however, but, and) to show relationship (cause,effect,reason, illustration.

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