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he author uses indirect characterization to describe how Millicent looks.
The three types of verbal phrases are participial, gerund, and infinitive phrases
Then= telling what you did next
"Then I went home"
Than= comparing things
"That's bigger than the other one"
There- direction
"My house is over there"
Their- they own it
"That's their house"