Groaners I find when I’m reading
If an actor is really angry about the part he is asked to play and he’s somewhat crazy and trying to make a point, he might crumple up his script and eat his role. But if he is out for a lunch date with his leading lady and orders ham on a bun, he would eat his roll.
I think I already told you about the grizzly death. No, no, no. It wasn’t a bear but it was horrific and grisly.
The man was committed to fulfilling his promises and wanted to be sure no one would worry that he might change his mind, so he didn’t waver as he signed the waiver that took away his right to protest.
He took one last breath and sunk beneath the waves. No, no, no. He sank beneath the waves.
Yesterday, he HAD sunk beneath the waves. Every day as an ongoing practice run, he HAS sunk beneath the waves, but finally, he simply sank.
His good shirt shrunk in the wash? No, no, no. It shrank in the wash.
He HAD shrunk a lot of his clothing because he knew nothing about doing laundry all those first years of his marriage, but now that his wife taught him how to do his own washing, he HAS shrunk only a few things. Very few of his shirts shrank in the wash anymore.
***We will soon have to have another go at lay and lie. It is rare that I can read a book without lay/lie being misused.