Tài liệu 08) Very doesn''''t help ppt

Remove "weak" words Words like very , extremely and really seem to make your meaning stronger.. Remove "weak" words Consider the following sentence: It was a very cold winter and m

“Very” doesn’t help

Remove "weak" words

 Words like very , extremely and really seem to make your meaning stronger

But do they?

Remove "weak" words

 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

 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?

 A shopkeeper woke up in the morning and found that his shop had been

robbed in the night

 He called the police They arrested two local boys and called them in for

questioning

Who is telling the truth?

 The police asked the first boy: Did you rob the shop last night?

 The first 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?

 Then the police asked the second boy: Did you rob the shop last night?

 The second boy answered: No, I didn’t.

Who is telling the truth?

 Then the police asked the second boy: Did you rob the shop last night?

 The second boy answered: No, I didn’t.

 Do the extra words in the first boy’s answer help make it sound more truthful?

Shorter is stronger.

 Which is stronger?

I really, really, very much hate to eat spinach.

I hate spinach.

This?

Or this?

Shorter is stronger Simpler is better.

 Short sentences are clearer and stronger than long ones

About author

Hans Anderson

 2007-Present: Lecturer at FPT Greenwich Programmes, FPT University

 2007: M.S., Computational Mathematics, University of Minnesota

 2001: B.A., Computer Science, Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN