Answers to Practice Exercises: Vary and Very

(a) Lord Lucan has been gone for a very long time.

(b) "She would vary her steps, sometimes walking sedately, sometimes skipping, sometimes hopping and humming, one plump hand always clutching the handkerchief that contained the lump of ice."
(Tennessee Williams, "Three Players." Hard Candy: A Book of Stories. New Directions, 1954)

 

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