Brian S. Hook
1 min readJun 28, 2019

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  • “Unimpressed” and “distracted” signal to your reader the specific attributes you and the actress sense and displayed, respectively, whereas “wasn’t impressed” and “didn’t appear to be focused” merely point out what you and her didn’t sense or display. (emphasis mine)

“What you and she didn’t sense or display.” Nominative rather than objective case here for two subjects.

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Brian S. Hook
Brian S. Hook

Written by Brian S. Hook

Dad, classicist, mountain dweller, erstwhile triathlete, wannabe woodworker, follower of Socrates and Jesus (two famous non-writers), writing to avoid raveling

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