Hello and welcome to technique two of strategy three structures. Technique two states that you want to start sentences with a subject and an action verb. Like always, this is not a catch all, but it is something that you want to try to do more often as much as possible. Start sentences with a subject and an action verb. And the reason for that is because you want to allow weaker constructions to follow the subject and the verb that puts the emphasis on the subject and the verb and usually in most cases, that is what you're emphasizing the subject in the verb and that's what you want to put first, because that puts it in the readers mind. First, experts call such sentences right branching, mostly because the descriptors and minor words come after the subject in the verb.

Not all well written sentences follow that structure, but writers like Steinbeck, known for type pros use that technique frequently. So, trying to use the subject and the verb first, emphasize what you want to emphasize at the beginning. So the reader is left with those thoughts. An example of that, as the wind beat branches and bonds, Jessica jumped from the cliff into the rippling current. Okay, that one does not do so it's not right branching. A lot of those descriptors are at the beginning, for example, as the wind beat branches and bonds, that is a subordinate clause, and there's no subject and there's no verb.

And so it takes us a little while to get to the beginning of the sentence. And so what should be emphasized in it isn't necessarily emphasized in the right place there. So this is a better way of correcting the sentence. Jessica jumped from the cliff into the rippling current as the winds beat branches and bombs. The most important part here is Jessica jumped from the cliff and so the subject The verb are first and we get that image in our mind first so that it is emphasized and it's a stronger sentence. And then as the winds beat branches and bonds comes last, and that still gives us some clarifying details, but they're not as emphasized as the part that we really need to know about.

And then another example, Beverly, for as long as she could remember had been working on her novel. That's one of their sentences, you understand what it means. But there's something a little off about the structure. So if you correct it, it works better this way. It has once again, a more active form, a more correct emphasis, the part this emphatic is at the beginning, and it just clarifies what's going on and it pops. Beverly had been working on her novel for as long as she could remember.

And you don't have that chopped up feeling that the Senate's had before. And so, you've got the subject Beverly, had been working on her novel had been working the verb Or the verb phrase, which are at the beginning. And so that's strategy three structures, technique two, which is start sentences with a subject and an action verb and that will increase the strength of your sentences, the emphasis of them and give them that tight feel that everybody wants in their riding.