Hey guys we're going to talk about style today.
So style is the kind of thing you hear and you ask yourself how do I improve my style.
What does that even mean.
And I thought the same way.
But I'm going to show you that for the College Board.
They look at three things for style.
They're going to look at your tone how director sentences are as well as whether or not you use idiomatic
expression.
Let's take a look at those three things.
When looking at style we want to consider these three things idiomatic expression tone and directness.
Let's start with the first one.
This is kind of tricky because it just depends on what what sounds right what what's the right word
that we normally use in that situation.
So you have to read it out and it helps with that loud.
It is an excellent source of calcium and protein serves to be a digestive aid and contains few calories.
It's unsweetened low in nonfat forms so it serves to be a digestive aid serves as a digestive aid serves
like a digestive aid or serves for the age of eight.
Really out loud by replacing the phrase with with each of the choices and if one sounds the best Go
for it if you're not sure.
My trick is to usually take that expression and phrase and try it in a different situation that's familiar
to you.
Family friends school so how about I say my friend Susie serves to be a homeowner in school.
My friend Susie serves as a hall monitor in school.
My friend Susie serves like a whole month in school.
My friend Susie serves for a whole month in school which are those sounds right to you.
And of course the answer is B serves as if that didn't sound right to you.
No.
You can do just go with your gut.
The best choices all you can do now is to read a lot more read books read magazines read newspapers
and you build up that database in your mind of idiomatic expressions.
K What about tone.
The menu was modeled after those of fine restaurants.
So the food was leagues beyond the sinister affair travelers were accustomed to receiving in transit.
Which choice best maintains the tone established in the passage Sofaer means food the food that was
served.
OK.
So in terms of meaning the connected meaning we're talking about the kind of food that was served.
It be illogical to say the food was evil or had a bad temper.
So it's either going to be a bit more icky these both mean the food is terrible meaning why is they
both work.
But what's the right tone to use.
Well the right tone.
Ninety nine percent of the time is the more formal one.
You don't say things like icky anything that's too casual or informal it's the wrong answer.
So the answer here is C.
The only time you're going to have a casual answer is if the whole passage was in a casual style.
Right.
Let's say it's dialogue and it's like some kind of casual dialogue.
So what word would fit.
What kind of tone would be appropriate.
Yeah okay some casual dialogue tone but most passages are very formal in nature that presenting information
they're expository.
So in that case you're going to want that form and that choice so keep that in mind.
The formal tone is almost always the answer.
Directness typically the ice sheet begins to show evidence of throwing in late summer.
This follows several weeks of high temperatures.
Which of these is the best way to combine these two sentences.
If you go through these choices A B and C are all grammatically fine.
I have a if I have a modifier and I enjoy modifying the B.
I have comma and.
And then I have a subject and verb comma and subject and verb.
These grammatically incorrect because I have subject and verb but no comma before the end.
So D is wrong.
So a b and c a potentially right.
What's the best answer choice.
Of course the most correct one.
So as a best answer there it's the shortest answer.
That's a good one more example.
I know that many of you are going to look at go well obviously AK is the shortest and it is.
I mean honestly the short answer is right as long as it makes sense and a check that ABC need makes
sense.
But if makes sense it's the answer.
Does it make sense.
Well double check.
Also studies have found that those students who major in philosophy often do better than students from
other majors in both verbal reasoning and analytical writing as measured by standardized test scores.
Yeah that makes sense right.
It's they do better in these things as shown or as measured by the scores so a make sense as the answer
there to recap these rules.
Remember to try rephrasing.
Try rephrasing the points or the idiomatic expressions in familiar contexts to detect whether it sounds
right or not.
You pick the formal time for 99 percent of cases unless it's a really clear signal that it's informal
because it's dialogue then it's going to be the most formal tone and then for directness.
You want to pick the shortest answer that's correct.
All right guys.
That's it.
That's it for the writing rules.
The steps you needed know in the next lecture I'm going to tell you what to do next.
But come back to these lectures and do the practice tests and when you don't show come back to the lectures
to see which rules apply.