Exercise 1: Choices, choices, choices

1. “There was just something terribly off-putting about Sonic’s human-like proportions, furry human-like hands and worst of all, his creepy human-like teeth.”

2. There was something off-putting about Sonic’s proportions, hands and teeth.

3.

a) There was something terribly off-putting about Sonic’s proportions, hands and teeth.

b) There was something terribly off-putting about Sonic’s human proportions, hands and teeth.

c) There was something terribly off-putting about Sonic’s human-like proportions, furry hands and creepy teeth.

d) There was something off-putting about Sonic’s hands and teeth.

e) There was something off-putting about Sonic’s teeth.

f) Sonic

g) Off-putting teeth

h) Off-putting: unpleasant, disconcerting or repellant.

Thesaurus: off-putting, creepy, hideous.

i) There was something off-putting about Sonic’s proportions, hands and teeth; yet I couldn’t look away.

j) There was something incredibly off-putting about Sonic the Hedgehog’s human-like proportions, furry gloveless hands and pearlescent gnashing human teeth.

k) As soon as I laid my eyes upon him, there was something incredibly off-putting about Sonic the Hedgehog’s human-like proportions, furry gloveless hands and pearlescent gnashing human teeth.

l) As soon as I laid my eyes upon the abomination that is Sonic the Hedgehog, I could see that there was something horrendously off-putting about his disfigured human-like proportions, his hirsute naked hands and his pearlescent gnashing human-like teeth.

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