EXPLANATORY NOTES
Creative writing Skills, some authors may inherit by birth. They may not need much formal education or training in creative writing techniques.
Creative writing techniques can also be acquired by extensive reading of literature, particularly Class Literature. By studying Classical works and documents, our vocabulary expands and diction becomes accurate.
Studying the 'individual words' used by writers is one method. It is somewhat tedious, but not ineffective. Another method is, we can use phrases used by the writers. Verb is the key element in a word which is to be related with the 'subject' and the 'object'. While the subject in a sentence remains nearly static as 'doer', the impact of the verb's action falls on the object. Hence it is necessary to study the 'verb phrases' in a document/book or chapter of a book to idenify the ways in which the thrust of the verb falls on its objects.
For example, we can take the document of 'Declaration of Independence' by the settlers in the United States from their King in England. Here is a list of the verb phrazes used in the Declaration:
LIST OF VERB PHRAZES FOUND IN THE DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
1. Abdicate Government
2. Abolish a free system
3. Abolish form
4. Abolish Governments
5. Abolish laws
6. Absolve from allegiance
7. Acquiesce in necessity
8. Affect to render
9. Alter forms
10. Alter Governments
11. Alter system
12. Answer by injury
13. Appeal for rectitude
14. Appeal to justice
15. Be deaf to voice of justice
16. Bear arms
17. Become tyrant
18. Become destructive
19. Become executioners
20. Burn towns
21. Call legislative bodies
22. Combine with others
23. Commit murders
24. Complete work
25. Conclude peace
26. Conjure by ties
27. Constrain citizens
28. Constrain to alter
29. Contract alliance
30. Cut off trade
31. Declare people out of State's protection
32. Define a tyrant
33. Denounce separation
34. Deprive benefits
35. Derive powers
36. Destroy lives
37. Disavow usurpations
38. Dissolve Houses
39. Dissolve political connections
40. Eat out people's substance
41. Effect safety
42. Encourage migrations
43. Endeavor to bring on
44. Endeavor to prevent
45. Endow with
46. Enlarge boundaries
47. Erect offices
48. Establish an arbitrary Government
49. Establish commerce
50. Evince a design
51. Excite insurrections
52. Extend a jurisdiction
53. Forbid Governors
54. Give assent
55. Harass people
56. Have power
57. Hold somebody as enemy/friend
58. Impose taxes
59. Institute Governments
60. Interrupt connections
61. Invest with power
62. Keep armies
63. Lay foundation
64. Levy war
65. Make judges depend on
66. Neglect to attend
67. Obstruct administration of justice
68. Obstruct laws
69. Organize powers
70. Petition for redress
71. Pledge lives
72. Plunder seas
73. Protect from punishment
74. Provide guard
75. Publish something
76. Pursue object
77. Quarter armies
78. Raise conditions
79. Ravage coasts
80. Refuse to cause others
81. Refuse to pass
82. Refuse to pass others
83. Refused assent
84. Relinquish rights
85. Remain exposed
86. Remind of circumstances
87. Render an example
88. Secure rights
89. Send swarms
90. Subject people to jurisdiction
91. Submit facts
92. Suspend legislatures
93. Take away charters
94. Throw off a Government
95. Transport people beyond seas
96. Wage war against
1. Names in brackets are those of the authors who used the phrases.
2. If you chose, you can compare your answers with the key, Click: Click.
3. Your answers need not agree with the key. Choosing the right words is, always, a question of individual preference.
Ten phrases selected for building this Multiple Choice test
Acquiesce in the necessity
Endeavour to prevent
Evince a design
Give assent
Levy war
Pledge lives
Relinquish rights
Remain exposed
Secure rights
Send swarms
571. My mistress had been surprised in her own house between two lovers, and a scene ensued that all Paris knew by heart. She was disgraced, obliged to leave Paris or ______________ to the most bitter taunts. [Alfred De Musset in his book 'Child of a Century'].
572. The Western countries have great Air-fighting power. For flimsy reasons, they indulge in attacking civilian locations in Asia on the ground of curbing terrorism. The Nations of the 21st Century __________________________ of safeguarding themselves from the wrath of the US and its allies, which may place economic sanctions against the dissenting Nations.
573. Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will ___________ of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are.[King James Bible, Old Testament, Exodus 8-21].
574. Making such strategic economic decisions about the net capital consequences of buying securities into, or selling securities out of, inventory simply does not _______________ to circumvent the net capital rules; if anything, it tends to demonstrate that care is being taken to follow those rules. [U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissioin].Click to see the context: Initial Decision of an SEC Administrative Law Judge In the Matter of Kent T. Black, Joel L. Hurst, David E. Lynch, Larry E. Muller, and Robert L. McCook
575. Soon after the success of the lighting experiments and the installation at Menlo Park became known, Edison was besieged by persons from all parts of the world anxious to _____________ and concessions for their respective countries. [Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin in their book 'Edison, His Life and Inventions'].
576. In 2006, Dubai decided to _________________ to manage US Ports.
577. It has become a habit for some terrorist organisations to ask their youth to ____________ as 'suicide bombers'.
578. The Commons, on the 1st of January 1648-49, passed a Resolution and an Ordinance. The Resolution was "That, by the fundamental laws of this kingdom, it is Treason in the King of England for the time being to ________ against the Parliament and Kingdom of England [David Masson in 'The Life of John Milton '].
579. We ought to ____________________ as well as to cure. We should never allow our dogs to eat the entrails of hares or rabbits. Never allow them to be fed on raw sheep's intestines, nor the brains of sheep. [Robert Leighton in his book 'Dogs and All About Them'].
580. A child has to ___________ to participate in pedantic research studies after reaching the age of 7 or 14. This is not consent which legally binds a child..
