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More complex and fun terms about syntax! Also, watch me struggle to pronounce "frighteningly"!

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high class I'm being joined by Casper to talk to you about syntax Again part 2 the fun part first we're going to talk about where is of words in a sentence the first type is natural order and that's constructing a sentence that the subject comes before this is normal Jason threw the ball to Casper who's Jason cast you'll never write about natural order in an essay because it's not notable but you will write about inverted order sentence inversion I didn't realize that the speed limit thing was a gift this is number 10 and this is where the predicate comes before the subject the orders reversed that should have a d on it to emphasize the word that comes first or to create this is often used in poetry it's not something that you'll use in the essays you right but you might see it in some messages so an example is the ball to Casper through Jason that the entire predicate including the verb all comes before Jason and so what that does it is it emphasized that the ball because of all times first so we're thinking the Falls really important because kind of Romeo and Juliet never was seen so black a day as this then normal order would be a day as black as this would never seen but by putting the predicate first emphasizes how rare days like this are  and then split orders like inverted but the pet make it is broken into okay so to Casper Jason threw the ball so normally the predicate would be threw the ball to Casper so I Garden too and my subject is in the middle and that one emphasizes Casper and there's Jason throwing the ball send had a choice of a bunch of different stick figure dogs but decided Casper's Casper's first so that's the emphasis  and then this is really about order I guess it's about order because we're putting in a sentence in the middle of another sentence but interrupted sentences are when subordinate clauses come in the middle of the set off by dashes or commas dashes generally imply urgent intermediate in her up intermediate I'm more urgent Interruption, sand to be more formal either way the interruption of yours kind of informal because it's as if you're writing Disney right there in the middle but sometimes it's like I have to stick it in the middle because it's urgent so even though she had warned him about the haunted perhaps especially because you weren't him about it he went so and it's like oh I just had this idea maybe he's going in there because he wants to repel against her Authority so I'm going to stick that in the sentence right now definitely something you can notice an essay now we're going to talk about style in one stop flight I think has one or two words in his abrupt so really really short sands those of you that play musical instruments might be familiar with staccato on my plate I thought you liked push the key really fast and then took your finger off of it telegraphic is shorter than five words so very short sentence mediums about 18 words he probably won't talk about medium if you're analyzing an essay because it's kind of the norm and if its 30 words or more too long sleep off sentencings you generally don't want many of those in a row  and the pictures of really crazy looking animal I started to kind of get obsessed with them you'll notice them in the next slides and I named them the Super League of Frights and Lee frighteningly happy and odd looking also come up and future PowerPoints they're kind of going to change our life sentence so this is when the an idea which is the independent clause comes first then the dependent grammatical unit such as phrases and clauses come after this type fat next is informal relax your conversational so a loose sentence would be I arrived safely at work after being rescued by the amazing or League of rice and looking animals okay so it's kind of informal because I don't leave you hanging I'm like oh yeah Network you want to hang around till the end of the sentence you can force you to hang around is frighteningly happy-looking but the walrus isn't well he was let into the league because it was hot and then the next one is. sentence this is the opposite of loose sentence so its Central meaning is in the main or independent clause at the end after phrases or Clauses that can stand alone after subordinate clauses this adds emphasis and structural variety. Something to think about in your writing and is generally seen as stronger because holding your attention till the very end you have to stay till the end of the sentence so that you can know what the main point is so I just reversed the others after an inspiring Rescue by the Super League of frightened and Lee frightening Lee happy and odd looking animals I arrived safely at work so you don't get to know that I arrived at work which everyone's really excited about obviously until you get to the end I start subordinate clause right after an inspiring rescue can't stand alone okay now techniques you're usually familiar with setting the three dots in the middle of his sentence in Internet and she kind of trailed off and quoting it means that you cut Parts out so there's another type of ellipses means the same thing but doesn't feature is that punctuation and this is a deliberate omission of word or words that are implied by contact so am I to exam my pain was blue hers red you see that I left out her pain was for pain was and replace it with a, in this type of construction if you leave out words in the middle of a sentence you have to replace them with the, I'm only if they're Syfy contacts if you can't just decide to leave out words and be like it's okay he 8:30 Donuts but she 850 Donuts but the donuts isn't flat here's where I get to the really fun stuff I seen the time I always say it incorrectly and then mashed be corrected me it's a syndets on this is the deliberate omission have conjunctions in a series so generally list this, this, this, and this I put the, before the end play some a big fan of the Oxford, but I sent it on has no and or but at the end it has a lot of different effects it's really fun to use one of the things that does Casper sleeping on my  what is the things that says is create sense of speed and concision like I don't have time for the and I've got to get through this list and also seem spontaneous but if you don't have the and it's like you're just the things I thought about right now which also leads to the next effect it doesn't necessarily seem complete because it doesn't have that in and stealing it at the end there could be more things another thing you can do is it makes afraid seem like an afterthought or a completion or synonym of the previous idea I'll show you the example for that so she was obsessed with puppies booked ice cream sleep sing about but she's not limited she could be obsessed with other things that's all we've got so far I have a second example goes with my last effects there Soldier a hero right if I said he was a soldier and a hero but if I say he was a soldier a hero makes it seem like a hero is just a completion of the idea of soldier and then here's a quotation and some ways he was this town at its best straw hard-driving working feverishly pushing Philippine driven by ambition so big they seem to Texas boastful and there we don't have the and at the end and it speed I think especially with all of those ing verbs in there like all these things are happening so we don't have time for Anne's the opposite of asyndeton is polysyndeton and means without as a prefix poly means many so you can let me guess what this one's going to be this uses many conjunctions also super fun because you have a lot of conjunctions it often makes it seem like the idea you're trying to convey is so complex that you're trying to get it all these different aspects of it it also emphasizes the multi multiplicity and persistent or the intensity so it has this going on and also this so it's really multi-faceted or theirs this this and this I'm so it makes it seem like there's a lot of stuff going on it's really intense so they read and studied and throat and drill laughed and played and talked and flunked okay so that's like these are all the things they did they did so many things and I did so many of the office it and it go well and then by Maya Angelou let the white folks have their money and power and segregation and sarcasm and fake houses and schools and Lawn flightcar what's an Fox and mostly mostly let them have their whiteness okay I'm coming from especially a. That even more so mom had racial Prejudice that I'm had socioeconomic repercussions she's looking at all of these things right all of the ants make it seem like the make folks have everything I'm in their simplistic contrast that blocks are lacking all of those things and so their lives have all of these sing and that summed up in their whiteness and so the polysyndeton Gathering all of the different evidence and this is our last fight these just words to describe syntax and I have no idea why I have all of these tractors  some but they're important to have exposed first and syntactic fluency and this is the ability to create a variety of sentence structures appropriately complex and or simple Danberry in like so this is what we want to import you want to have syntactic fluency and your papers and I say that you analyze I suppose you could comment on that stew and the next one Jason's home to Casper left his excited and this is when an essay has sentence structures that are give me early complex are involved there often too difficult for the reader to follow now remember if you use that you don't get to say this author uses syntactic from you Nation as an excuse for why you didn't understand it if you're commenting on the syntactic permutation think about why the author might have chosen to write for instance in Paradise Lost John Milton famous lyrics with syntactic permutation on particularly when he is depicting Satan in **** because his tortured syntax describes the tortured nature of Satan's hellish existence I'm so again you don't get to use it as an excuse why you didn't understand me I say but if you can analyze a purpose for it that'd be great and that's the end of our syntax PowerPoints go out there can use rhetoric

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