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Imitation Exercises

Beatriz Valdez

Imitation sentences

1.       If one must worship a bully, it is better that he should be a policeman than a gangster.

a.       If society is going to be scared of being pushed around by someone, society may as well use those people to protect them.

2.       The real art that dealt with life directly was that of the first men who told their stories round the savage campfire.

a.       Men’s lives were put on display for the world to see, judge, and analyze.

3.       To regain the stage in its own character, not as mere emulation of prose, poetry must find its own poetic way to the mastery the stage demands-the mastery of action.

a.       In order to become truly unique, not just “unique” in a sea of thousands of unique, we must find out what truly makes us unique-in other words, our inner “shine”.

4.       He went through the narrow alley of Temple Bar quickly, muttering to himself that they could all go to hell because he was going to have a good night of it.

a.       Muttering to himself that they could all go to hell, he went through the narrow alley of Temple Bar quickly because he was going to have a good night of it.

b.      As he went quickly through the Temple Bar, he muttered to himself, “They could all go to hell,” because he was going to have a good night of it.