What are some strategies to sharpen sentences and word choice

The wife of bath was considered to be .. beautiful, of high moral standing or worldly

In hard times by charles dickens, mr. gradgrind’s name can be interpreted in several ways. the selection supports all of the following interpretations except he grinds out graduates who are similar to each other as if he were running a factory he grinds the importance of facts into students’ heads he grinds down children by crushing their imaginations he grinds his teeth together, suggesting his intolerance for fantasy

If you want to change from landscape orientation to portrait orientation, what would you do? turn the camera around. flip the camera over. turn the camera 90 degrees. turn the camera 360 degrees.