[Essay] Can you please correct two things, vocabulary and usage of phrases and sentence

[wulala]

Re: Sharks

Finally:

Besides that, there have been numerous cartoons with sharks in them. In those cartoons they are shown in a more affable and portly form, unlike those brutal creatures usually portrayed perpetrating some horrible attack on human beings.

Sorry. I do not understand why use the word portray and why this word in past tense.

 

[emsr2d2]

Re: Sharks

Sorry. I do not understand why use the word portray and why this word in past tense.

Does this help?

... unlike those brutal creatures which are usually portrayed perpetrating some horrible attack on human beings.

Have you looked up the definition of "to portray"?

 

[Tarheel]

Re: Sharks

Well, if you insist. Try:

In the movies they usually portray sharks as man-eaters. It sells more tickets.

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