Tài liệu 08) Very doesn''''t help ppt

“Very” doesn’t help
Remove "weak" words
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Words like very, extremely and really seem to make your meaning stronger.
But do they?
Remove "weak" words
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Consider the following sentence:
It was a very cold winter and many of the old people in the village died of hypothermia.
Is it any less strong without the word very?
It was a cold winter and many of the old people in the village died of hypothermia.
Remove "weak" words
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Consider the following sentence:
I love you. Will you marry me?
Does it sound better if we write it this way?:
I really love you. Will you marry me?
Who is telling the truth?
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A shopkeeper woke up in the morning and found that his shop had been
robbed in the night.
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He called the police. They arrested two local boys and called them in for
questioning
Who is telling the truth?
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The police asked the $rst boy: Did you rob the shop last night?
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The $rst boy answered: No, I swear to you. I didn’t do it. I would never, never,
ever do a thing like that. I’m telling the truth, you’ve got to believe me. Please
mister, I'm not lying.

Who is telling the truth?
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Then the police asked the second boy: Did you rob the shop last night?
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The second boy answered: No, I didn’t.
Who is telling the truth?
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Then the police asked the second boy: Did you rob the shop last night?
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The second boy answered: No, I didn’t.
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Do the extra words in the $rst boy’s answer help make it sound more truthful?
Shorter is stronger.
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Which is stronger?
I really, really, very much hate to eat spinach.
I hate spinach.
This?
Or this?
Shorter is stronger. Simpler is better.
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Short sentences are clearer and stronger than long ones.
About author
Hans Anderson
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2007-Present: Lecturer at FPT Greenwich Programmes, FPT University.
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2007: M.S., Computational Mathematics, University of Minnesota
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2001: B.A., Computer Science, Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN