4.08 Word Choice
Read the following paragraphs and fill in the blanks with descriptive adjectives, vivid verbs, and specific nouns. Remember the types of nouns we just reviewed. Do not use any word choice more than once. Try to be as descriptive as possible, and do not fall into the pattern of giving “pat” answers.
I’ll never forget the descriptive adjective night my descriptive adjective friends and I vivid verb to camp out in the proper noun about two miles from my house. That was one of the descriptive adjective nights of my life. We vivid verb our descriptive adjective bikes down the descriptive adjective street to the entrance of the cemetery at dark. On the way we stopped at the common noun to load our backpacks with snacks: descriptive adjective candy, descriptive adjective chips, common noun, and descriptive adjective soda. Since the cemetery gate was locked every night at common noun, we had to climb the descriptive adjective gate and vivid verb for a descriptive adjective place to set up our temporary camp for the night. No sooner had we settled down to tell descriptive adjective stories and vivid verb our common noun than the first descriptive adjective event occurred. The descriptive adjective moon disappeared, and a descriptive adjective wind vivid verb from the west. What had been a descriptive adjective and descriptive adjective night was now descriptive adjective and descriptive adjective. All abstract noun of a fun evening had vanished.
Just as we were vivid verb from the sudden wind change, we heard what seemed