Timeline for Description: How to apply an adjective to a list of nouns without seeming redundant?
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| Jul 27, 2016 at 13:54 | comment | added | Chowzen | @KenMohnkern Your point is well taken, but the narrator owns the property; the buildings have been empty for years. The statement simply informs the reader of information that the narrator already inherently possesses. | |
| Jun 16, 2016 at 17:47 | comment | added | Ken Mohnkern | Hm. As a rather picky reader, I wonder whether the narrator actually knows they're empty just from driving by. What does she actually see? "The stables stood open and the servant's quarters were dark as I drove by..." | |
| Jun 16, 2016 at 17:32 | vote | accept | Chowzen | ||
| Jun 16, 2016 at 16:24 | comment | added | Goodbye Stack Exchange | To the person who flagged this as possibly being a request for rephrasing: If people vote to close this on those grounds, I can see why, but I think this is a common enough problem that a light edit may help. I've given it a try. | |
| Jun 16, 2016 at 16:22 | history | edited | Goodbye Stack Exchange | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Edited to make the question applicable to more cases
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| Jun 16, 2016 at 9:07 | answer | added | Cakebox | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 16, 2016 at 5:18 | answer | added | user16226 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 16, 2016 at 2:23 | history | asked | Chowzen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |