Author's Craft > Authors frequently use strong verb/adverb combinations to paint a picture in the reader's mind. For example, on p37, Hinton writes, “After the movie was over, it suddenly came to us
that Cherry and Marcia didn't have a way to get home. Two-bit gallantly offered to walk them
home..." List three more examples of strong verb/adverb combinations from chapters three and four,
including the page number for each example:
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Diego rivera was a famous artist from mexico. most of his paintings were murals. murals are paintings that are made directly on a wall. rivera thought that all people should be able to see beautiful art, not just people who could afford to go to museums. this is why he painted most of his murals on the walls of public buildings

One of the author’s purposes in the code book is to explain different types of codebreaking to his readers. which line best demonstrates this purpose? a theoretical breakthrough would be a fundamentally new way of finding alice's private key mathematicians have been studying factoring for centuries, and modern factoring techniques are not significantly better than ancient techniques a more recent development is the so-called tempest attack, which aims to detect the electromagnetic signals emitted . . in a computer's display unit if scientists could build a quantum computer, it would be able to perform calculations with . . enormous speed

In the following sentences, commas are needed after which words? when the clark family planned their summer vacation to hell’s canyon they didn’t plan on having quite so many adventures. from the start they had to deal with a broken-down van a sick baby and torrential rains.