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Sprinkling liberally your writing with any pet structures tends to make it stilted and artificial. It spices up your writing to diversify structures and sometimes— take bold leaps to flout the rules (This, of course, hardly means that you could make or breaks rules at will.)
Now—
He stomped off, muttering to himself.
is a perfectly valid construction, ...
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