Verb choice matters.
Take this sentence: “He walked past the window”
Now imagine I substitute a different verb – I take out “walked” which doesn’t tell me a lot about HOW he walked, it just offers me a bland fact – he was walking. I can’t picture HOW he walked – but if I change the verb, look at how the picture in your head changes:
He crawled past the window
He staggered past the window
He danced past the window
He skipped past the window
He bounced past the window
He strutted past the window
He shuffled past the window
He stumbled past the window
He tip-toed past the window
He strolled past the window
He ambled past the window
He crept past the window
He scampered past the window
He glided past the window
He charged past the window
He lurched past the window
He trotted past the window
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