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We can "**tell"** what we saw by using non-participle sentences such as:

Kirby watched his family leave. He was scared and sad.

However, better yet, we can use participle sentences to "**show**" what we saw by writing:

In this second example, we did not explicitly say that Kirby was sad or scared, however, the description of "his eyes tearing and lips trembling" allows us a more vivid image in which we not only "**see**" feelings of being scared and sad but the image we create to our readers is more exact in how he shows these feelings.

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