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Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.41,0:00:05.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hello everybody and welcome to the Style Academy.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.49,0:00:08.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We hope you'll find the videos and the exercises on this
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.77,0:00:11.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,website really useful to you as you develop as a writer.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.81,0:00:14.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This one is on writing sentences.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.14,0:00:18.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, this may not be the best,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.72,0:00:20.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,news to some of you out there,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.12,0:00:20.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.20,0:00:23.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you are going to be a writer throughout your life,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.76,0:00:25.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no matter what profession you go into.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.70,0:00:30.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you're going to be writing a lot of different kinds of documents.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.46,0:00:31.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're going to be writing emails;
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.78,0:00:33.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're gonna be writing reports,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.54,0:00:34.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,analysis papers,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.94,0:00:36.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,blog posts,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.26,0:00:37.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,proposals,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.09,0:00:38.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,love letters.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.97,0:00:39.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who knows?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.69,0:00:42.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But every time you sit down to write,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.85,0:00:44.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're going to be writing sentences.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.00,0:00:47.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.40,0:00:50.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can't really improve your writing
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.20,0:00:54.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until you can improve the way that you write a sentence.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.50,0:00:57.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's what this lesson is all about.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.30,0:00:59.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As you already know,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.74,0:01:03.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sentences like the one you see now can be pretty simple,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.90,0:01:05.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.82,0:01:07.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they can be not so simple at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.67,0:01:11.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here is a gargantuan sentence from Virginia Woolf,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.94,0:01:16.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she's famous for writing gargantuan and lovely sentences.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.08,0:01:19.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I want you to do now is something you may not do very often,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.71,0:01:20.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.66,0:01:24.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pause this video and read this sentence out loud.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.80,0:01:27.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You may feel kind of weird because you're in a library
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.30,0:01:29.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or maybe you're sitting in your dorm room or something.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.90,0:01:30.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know where you are,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.26,0:01:31.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but wherever you are,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.02,0:01:34.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pause this and read this out loud
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.74,0:01:38.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and just listen to the way that Virginia Woolf makes this sentence,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.54,0:01:39.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then when we come back,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.82,0:01:42.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we'll talk a little bit about it just for two seconds.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.51,0:01:47.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,OK.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.06,0:01:50.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, what kind of sentence artist is Virginia Woolf?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.78,0:01:53.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I noticed that she begins by saying,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.26,0:01:56.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"considering how common illness is..."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.30,0:02:00.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she never completes her idea until the end of the sentence.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.30,0:02:04.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything in the middle is building upon that,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.34,0:02:06.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,putting more and more weight
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.46,0:02:10.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the sentence until the very ending when she says "it becomes strange indeed that..."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.10,0:02:12.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's the whole point of the sentence.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.58,0:02:16.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the main clause of the sentence if that language helps you.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.60,0:02:20.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, in using Virginia Woolf,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.21,0:02:22.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not saying that you need to write like Virginia Woolf,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.09,0:02:26.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and maybe you don't want to write like Virginia Woolf.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.73,0:02:28.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't want to write like Virginia Woolf.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.45,0:02:29.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I enjoy her writing,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.53,0:02:32.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I want to create my own sentence style
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.56,0:02:34.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that has my own stamp and my own
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.81,0:02:39.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,attitude and my own persona and all those things that come into writing sentences.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.57,0:02:40.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you should too.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.16,0:02:45.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, one of the cool things about sentences is that they come in all kinds of varieties,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.93,0:02:46.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as you see here.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.92,0:02:52.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I'd like to do an exercise with you that kind of demonstrates this point.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.40,0:02:57.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see two sentences on the screen.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.88,0:02:58.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Myka sang,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.04,0:03:00.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It surprised her mother.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.60,0:03:02.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I'd like you to do
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.18,0:03:06.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is combine these two sentences to make one sentence.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.02,0:03:10.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I want you to do it in as many different ways as you possibly can.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.20,0:03:14.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's shoot for at least ten—ten unique sentences
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.71,0:03:17.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that combine these two sentences together into one.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.35,0:03:19.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And here are a few rules.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.82,0:03:24.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I get this exercise from Max Morenberg in his book "Doing Grammar."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.75,0:03:28.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, you can change sang to singing,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.73,0:03:32.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or you can add commas or dashes or colons.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.73,0:03:39.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can also add adverbs or adverbials like since or because or in the afternoon
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.81,0:03:40.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or something like that,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.09,0:03:43.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but just don't change the essence of these two sentences.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.73,0:03:44.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,OK?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.69,0:03:45.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Put the two together,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.21,0:03:47.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,switch the order if you want,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.89,0:03:49.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and come up with at least ten,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.73,0:03:50.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then come back to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.75,0:03:55.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How did that go?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.15,0:03:57.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did you come up with at least ten?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.38,0:04:01.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As I was playing around with these two sentences,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.58,0:04:02.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I came up with
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.30,0:04:03.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.80,0:04:07.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You may have some of these very sentences on your paper.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.32,0:04:10.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, as I was writing things,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.60,0:04:14.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was thinking that I was pretty much writing the same thing over and over again,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.09,0:04:15.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but actually,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.24,0:04:18.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even changing the form changes a little bit of the
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.92,0:04:20.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,content or what the content is trying to say.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.48,0:04:22.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like these two examples.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.71,0:04:25.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Myka's singing surprised her mother,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.46,0:04:26.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if Myka sings,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.87,0:04:28.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it surprises her mother.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.18,0:04:32.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those are two sentences saying very similar things,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.14,0:04:35.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the meaning is just a little bit different.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.01,0:04:41.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another amazing aspect of sentences is that with all these different options,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.44,0:04:43.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rhetorical tricks and combinations,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.84,0:04:46.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can write sentences that no one has ever
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.28,0:04:48.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,written before in the history of the universe.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.84,0:04:50.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't believe me?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.16,0:04:52.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's try one right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.79,0:04:53.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.27,0:04:54.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm gonna write the sentence.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.05,0:04:59.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"This afternoon, while working on these keynote slides,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.49,0:05:02.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm listening to Feist and wondering if my wife
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.25,0:05:05.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Amy will plant more lantana in the front yard."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.51,0:05:07.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not a work of art,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.76,0:05:12.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but my guess is that no one has ever written this sentence in the history of the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.38,0:05:13.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in fact,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.97,0:05:14.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I proved it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.85,0:05:16.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I Googled this,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.61,0:05:17.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and look,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.60,0:05:18.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no results found.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.71,0:05:20.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one's ever written this sentence.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.01,0:05:25.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, what can learning to write sentences do for you?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.09,0:05:29.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, it can add variety
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.41,0:05:30.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to your language.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.68,0:05:34.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And let's get a little bit more specific about that.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.41,0:05:36.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's go back to our sentence Ben laughed.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.60,0:05:37.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.56,0:05:42.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what makes a sentence effective and artistic and
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.32,0:05:43.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,various
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.89,0:05:48.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is when you can build on something simple like Ben laughed.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.14,0:05:49.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, here's an example.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.43,0:05:51.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the afternoon,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.41,0:05:52.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after his soccer game,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.73,0:05:53.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ben laughed.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.81,0:05:55.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're gonna call that a sentence opener,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.25,0:05:57.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I've sort of given you a
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.93,0:06:01.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,little schematic of that with those dashes and then the X.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.23,0:06:03.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like da da da da da and then the main clause,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.65,0:06:04.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ben laughed.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.69,0:06:05.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bam!
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.51,0:06:07.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you can also have
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.36,0:06:11.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,build on a sentence by adding a closer.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.92,0:06:15.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ben laughed, and root beer shot out his nose in a wild gush.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.46,0:06:18.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've heard that some people,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.02,0:06:20.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some linguists would say that the
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.74,0:06:23.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,English language and maybe language in general
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.90,0:06:27.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,emerges kind of in this sentence closer pattern.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.60,0:06:30.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is often called right branching.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.26,0:06:30.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.54,0:06:34.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you've got Ben laughed as the main clause and then things branch to the right of that
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.06,0:06:36.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as opposed to to the left.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.79,0:06:38.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, this is kind of a sentence closer and, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.10,0:06:39.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you add variety,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.90,0:06:41.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can change it actually to
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.10,0:06:43.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what's called a participial phrase.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.94,0:06:44.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ben laughed,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.80,0:06:46.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shooting root beer out his nose in a wild gush.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.13,0:06:50.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then if you wanna get really fancy pants,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.88,0:06:52.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can use a sentence interrupter.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.36,0:06:53.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ben,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.92,0:06:56.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my oldest and by far silious child,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.28,0:06:56.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,laughed.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.15,0:06:59.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can see the schematic there with those X's how
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.04,0:07:01.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the clause is interrupted.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.04,0:07:05.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There'll be more of this kind of stuff in other places in the style academy.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.27,0:07:11.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, one of the many advantages of learning how to write effective sentences is
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.37,0:07:15.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you're putting phrases and clauses together in a variety of different ways.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.18,0:07:19.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You'll also learn how to write clear.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.18,0:07:21.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Writing effective sentences
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.30,0:07:24.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,means often writing clear sentences.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.06,0:07:26.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, you connect with your readers,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.42,0:07:27.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so they don't have to go
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.94,0:07:30.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through too much labor reading your stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.06,0:07:32.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It also gives you power,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.54,0:07:36.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rhetorical power to convince and persuade other people.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.23,0:07:39.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Heck, it might even make you happy learning how to write effective sentences.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.38,0:07:39.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.37,0:07:43.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.39,0:07:47.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you learn how to begin with something as simple as Ben laughed,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.55,0:07:49.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then build it to something like this,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.35,0:07:51.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then something like this,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.52,0:07:55.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you develop rhetorical power as a writer.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.42,0:08:00.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before we finish,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.54,0:08:01.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let's do one last exercise.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.94,0:08:02.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,OK?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.79,0:08:09.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Take a look at this sentence written by John Hersey in his book,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.03,0:08:11.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hiroshima.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.47,0:08:14.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's an account of when the United States dropped an atomic bomb
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.99,0:08:16.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the Japanese city
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.07,0:08:17.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Hiroshima.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.73,0:08:19.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And just to let you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.77,0:08:20.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you look at the top,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.69,0:08:21.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that first word,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.69,0:08:23.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"non-hibakusha."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.61,0:08:25.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hibakusha means
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.53,0:08:28.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,surviving victim of the atomic blast.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.73,0:08:36.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I want you to do here is take out a piece of paper or get a word processor humming,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:36.65,0:08:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I want you to just rewrite this sentence.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.41,0:08:42.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rewrite it exactly as it appears,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.01,0:08:43.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,word for word,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.85,0:08:44.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,comma for comma.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.58,0:08:47.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then, when you're finished,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.22,0:08:50.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be prepared to talk to somebody about
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.86,0:08:53.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what you learned about this sentence just by
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.50,0:08:54.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,copying it down.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.61,0:08:56.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in fact,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.11,0:08:57.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it may seem crazy to you,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.51,0:09:00.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but one of the more effective ways of improving your sentence writing
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.31,0:09:02.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to imitate,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.87,0:09:05.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to copy what another master writer has done,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.67,0:09:06.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's what's happening here.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.42,0:09:10.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One last note before you do that.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.46,0:09:13.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hope this lesson gave you some enthusiasm
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.66,0:09:16.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and some willpower to become a sentence artist,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.18,0:09:18.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because that's what you are.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:18.58,0:09:21.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're a writer and writers write sentences.