Nice feedback guys, this clears things up for me a bit :)
Okay, thanks! I think I'm starting to grasp this :)
Thanks guys for the response! One more question about active vs. passive. Would this sentence be in the active voice? Magazine cut-outs covered...
I'm trying to rewrite something and here's the issue: A half broken bottle of wine was clutched in one hand, our cordless phone in the other....
I was looking up a word (Diminutive) and found an example at wiki.answers.com. Here's the example: She could hardly see a diminutive figure...
Separate names with a comma.