The answer to this question is 4 sensory details are supposed to make you feel like you’re there
<span>"His historical researches, however, did not lie so much among books as among men; for the former are lamentably scanty on his favorite topics; whereas he found the old burghers, and still more their wives, rich in that legendary lore, so invaluable to true history. Whenever, therefore, he happened upon a genuine Dutch family, snugly shut up in its low-roofed farmhouse, under a spreading sycamore, he looked upon it as a little clasped volume of black-letter,' and studied it with the zeal of a book-worm.""Rip Van Winkle," 1994 edition, 1-2
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A small but extremely important qroup of verbs do not express any activity at all. this includes: is,are,were,was,will,be etc.
Thomas Gray was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge.