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Date Posted: 15:10:51 05/23/07 Wed
Author: Thaís
Subject: Task 3

Are you a very concise person? Do you suffer when asked to write whatever number of pages minimum? Does it take forever for you to fill in an entire page because of your short and direct statements? Do you work getting paid by the word? If any of the answers were affirmative you would surely be benefited by Kathy McGinty’s humorous tips to lengthening sentences.
The first step towards multiplying the words in your statement is to refer to studies even if you have no knowledge at all of any of the cited studies. For instance, a sentence like ‘Youth gets angrier day to day’ would turn out to be ‘Studies have found that youth gets angrier day to day’.
For further improvement, simple words should be replaced by longer expressions or other words with multiple syllables. It would cause the following in our previous example: ‘Studies have found that adolescents get more choleric every passing day’.
A third step would be to use sophisticated, vague verbs – according to McGinty the vaguer the better. In our example, the verb ‘find’ is too simple and clear, whereas verbs like ‘indicate’ or ‘identify’ – that can be used in almost any context – are superbly adequate. And if it is the case that you do use them, the statement can be further lengthened by attaching ‘the fact that’ to it. Putting it into practice: ‘Studies have identified the fact that adolescents get more choleric every passing day’.
An ultimate advice the author gives is for you to pour classic but meaningless redundancies into the sentence, adding, for instance, ‘juvenile’ to ‘adolescents’. The final version of the innocent initial ‘Youth gets angrier day to day’ would, then, be ‘Studies have identified the fact that juvenile adolescents get more choleric every passing day’.
Following these simple, abstract and witty tips it is possible, as shown, to double your sentence size without much of effort and, best of all, with little or no change in meaning!

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