Image Grammar...

I really liked how Noden approached how to teach the art of image grammar through the five brish strokes. 1) the participle, 2)the absolute, 3) the appositive, 4) adjectives shifted out of order, and 5) action verbs. Before reading this, I had never heard of the brush strokes. The first example of adding a few ing words, participles, to the beginning of the sentence made the sentence more aciton packed and complex. I have, in my own writing, used this but I didn't know what it was called. I think that these techniques also help explain why and what these parts of speach are.