Descriptive Essay : An Arctic Scene
...vors of salt water, clean air, and musty fur combine to form a distinct bitter taste. Gentle winds caress the bear. This paragraph was done for a ninth grade English class. The requirements were that it be at least six sentences, no dead verbs (am, are, be, is, was, were) could be used, and it had to be in present tense. All requirements were met. This paper received a one-hundred from the teacher on August 19, 2005. Please feel free to copy it and use it as an example of a descriptive paragraph. The author of this essay has given up all rights to it. The paragraph is eighty eight words counting all articles. It is seventy six words without the articles a, an, and the. Four hundred seven characters are used within the paragraph, not counting spaces....