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Manipulating word classes
A style with lots of adjectives
Below is a passage from Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner  .
Consider the effects of the adjectives in the extract
(which we have highlighted for you) and then compare your findings with
ours.
The Hotel du Lac (Famille Huber) was a stolid and
dignified building, a house of repute, a traditional
establishment, used to welcoming the prudent, the well-to-do, the retired,
the self-effacing, the respected patrons of an earlier
era of tourism. It had made little effort to smarten
itself up for the passing trade which it had always
despised. Its furnishings, although austere, were
of excellent quality, its linen spotless,
its service impeccable.
(Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac, p 13)
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