Hello, and welcome to strategy three, technique three. We're moving right along in the course. And I hope you're enjoying it. And I hope you're getting a lot out of it. And I hope that you're able to apply the techniques that you need to cover in the course if there's a particular section that will help you more than it might be good to skip ahead to that section, even though a lot of this course is built in a sequential sort of scaffolding building on the previous step process, but you can still use each of these sections, in a sense where it stands alone. For example, if you feel like you need to work more on your habits, and you have a weakness with sentences, you might go back and just rewatch those particular videos and presentations and go through those sections extra times or go through those sections first, whatever works for you.

That's what you should do for the course. But technique three is place words of emphasis at the end of the sentence. Now, you might be scratching your head thinking doesn't think predict what was said before. And that would be a reasonable thing to assume at first. But when you look at the explanation, it clarifies it a little more. And this is from classic grammar, scholarship and classic grammar sentence diagramming.

And this is how you should emphasize the words in your sentences. And by the way, if you spend time working on tight poetry, even if you're not a poet, it makes you a better prose writer. Because you're forced to compress your language, you're forced to compress your words, you're forced to simplify, simplify, simplify, without dumbing down. And then so for poetry. This also applies to place words of emphasis in specific places in the line. So it says building on the previous technique, the Elements of Style states and the Elements of Style is a classic handbook and technique of style writing, and it's been around for a long time.

It says place in fat words are words for emphasis in a sentence at the end placed emphatic words in a sentence at the end. In other words, emphatic words should go at the beginning and end of a sentence. So remember this way 231 start with the Senate's start the sentence with the second most emphatic phrase. So you're still starting it with what you want emphasize, but it might not be what you emphasize the most, hide the weak elements in the middle, and then put the most important words last, when you have a compound or a complex sentence. This especially holds true and if you take some of your sentences that aren't structured this way and restructure them. Once again, there are exceptions, but in most cases, you'll find that your sentence flows better that you're trying to, it's more on an unconscious level for the reader.

But when you consciously change the structure of the sentence in this way, you'll find that your writing flows better and your sentences are stronger. And so follow the 231 emphasis two being the second most emphasized element in the Senate, three being the most minor and one being the most emphatic idea, word or phrase in the Senate. And so poetry puts emphatic words at the beginning and ends of lines as well. And so just listen to the lines here. It doesn't do it in everyone, but in most lines, you'll find that the emphatic words are at the beginning and ends of the lines follow along as we read this poem, my life has stood a loaded gun by Emily Dickinson. My life had stood a loaded gun in corners, till a day, the owner past identified and carried me away and now we Roman sovereign woods, and now we hunt the dough and every time I speak for him, the mountains straight reply and do I smile, such cordial light upon the Valley glow, it is as a Vesuvius face had led it's pleasure through and when at night are good day done, I guard my Masters head to is better than that eater ducks the pillow to have shared to follow of his and deadly foe.

Nun stir the second time on whom I lay a yellow eye, or an emphatic phone. Though I didn't, he may longer live, he longer must than I, for I have, but the power to kill without the power to die. Emily Dickinson and if you go through there, you'll notice that in the majority of the cases, what needs to be emphasized the most is at the very end of the sentence, and that especially holds true in poetry are at the end of the line in this case, but in many cases, it's also true in sentences two, three One, two in the middle three, the least emphasis one the most emphatic, and that is on strategy three. And that technique to emphasize what needs to be emphasized the most at the end of the sentence, when you take it in the context of the previous technique to emphasize what's at the beginning, you put them together, it makes a lot more sense to look at the context of the situation and see what needs to be emphasized.