In order to have a sentence with an active voice, you need to have to have the main subject perform an action.
"The revision (subject) gives the sentence (action) an active voice."
An understatement is the downplay of something.
4. a man and woman in love Jonesing (like the movie love jones)
5. star player: is steaming (hot, if touched will burn you)
Decoding is the reading or translating symbols into a language that is understandable or easily interpreted. It is also known as "word identification". Therefore, decoding is putting thoughts, ideas, and feelings into words and messages. Decoding also means to decipher or to translate.
At the minimum, a prepositional phrase will begin with a preposition and end with a noun, pronoun, gerund, or clause, the "object" of the preposition. In = preposition; the, weedy, overgrown = modifiers; garden = noun.
