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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
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more repetitive
Hi,
"She cried whenever she looked at a picture of her lost child."
That sentence is in a dictionary. I wanted to make it sound more repetitive and wrote the following sentence:
"She was constantly crying every time she looked at a picture of her lost child."
But I'm really not sure if it serves my purpose. Could you give me your opinion?
Thank you.
"She cried whenever she looked at a picture of her lost child."
That sentence is in a dictionary. I wanted to make it sound more repetitive and wrote the following sentence:
"She was constantly crying every time she looked at a picture of her lost child."
But I'm really not sure if it serves my purpose. Could you give me your opinion?
Thank you.
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"She broke down crying whenever she looked at the picture of her lost child."
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Thank you.
I meant something like:
She always looked at that picture and (always) cried.
Oh.
"She always looked at a picture of her lost child and was crying."
Is it okay?
I meant something like:
She always looked at that picture and (always) cried.
Oh.
"She always looked at a picture of her lost child and was crying."
Is it okay?
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Anonymous"She cried whenever she looked at a picture of her lost child.""Whenever"associates a crying spell with looking at a picture. The frequency (repetition) is how often she looks at such a picture. I don't know how to make it "more repetitive", except by adding an adverb of frequency.
Several times a day, she looked at a picture of her lost ch
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