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Chapter of Sweeping and Sweeping With and Sweeping It

A cleaning utensil is a kind of thing.

Sweeping is an action applying to nothing.

Understand the command "sweep" as something new.

Understand "sweep" or "sweep with the/-- broom" as sweeping.

Check sweeping:

if the player is not carrying a cleaning utensil:

say "You can't sweep without something to sweep with." instead;

Report sweeping:

say "Sweep-sweep-sweep. There, isn't it much nicer now?"

Instead of using the broom:

try sweeping.

Sweeping it is an action applying to one visible thing.

Understand "sweep [something]" as sweeping it.

Check sweeping it:

if the player is not carrying a cleaning utensil:

say "You can't sweep without something to sweep with." instead;

if the noun is the broom:

say "You can sweep something (with [the noun], for example), but you can't sweep [the noun] itself. Unless you have a second [noun]. Which isn't very likely." instead;

Report sweeping it:

say "Sweep-sweep-sweep. There, isn't it much nicer now?"

Sweeping with is an action applying to one visible thing and one visible thing.

Understand "sweep [something] with [something]" as sweeping with.

Check sweeping with:

if the second noun is not carried by the player, say "You must carry [the second noun] in order to use [them]." instead;

otherwise if the second noun is not a cleaning utensil:

say "You can't sweep with that." instead;

otherwise if the noun is a cleaning utensil:

say "You can sweep something (with [the noun], for example), but you can't sweep [the noun] itself. Unless you have a second [noun]. Which isn't very likely." instead;

Report sweeping with:

say "Sweep-sweep-sweep. There, isn't it much nicer now?"