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The eight parts of speech are all significant in their own way in changing minds. By understanding and controlling each part, you can make a greater whole.

• Nouns: things that seem concrete.
  • Using concrete nouns: creating tangible reality.
  • Using abstract nouns: creating conceptual reality.
  • Nominalization: Turning a verb into a noun.
• Pronouns: that reference people and things.
  • Types of pronoun: Different types of pronoun
  • Connecting with pronouns: Using pronouns to create togetherness or separation.
  • Pronouns and possession: Creating desire with possessive pronouns.
• Verbs: actions, tenses and perfection.
  • Types of verb: the different varieties of verb.
  • Completion with verbs: using tense, perfection and continuity.
  • Possibility with verbs: opening up possible action.
  • Imperative with verbs: showing essential action.
  • Active and passive verbs: changing the dynamics of the action.
• Adjectives: that describe nouns.
  • Enhancing with adjectives: to add power to nouns.
  • Quantifying with adjectives: focusing choice and decision.
  • Definite and indefinite articles: taking general or specific instances.
  • Comparatives and Superlatives: showing which is better and best.
  • Cardinals and Ordinals: absolute and relative number.
• Adverbs: that describe verbs.
  • Enhancing with adverbs: to intensify and increase communication.
  • Quantifying with adverbs: to show relative frequency and size.
• Prepositions: that move nouns in time and space.
  • Prepositions of place: Locate things in space, answering the question 'where?'
  • Preposition of time: Locate things in time, answering the question 'when?'
• Conjunctions: that connect phrases into sentences.
  • Types of conjunction: simple, correlative, compound, subordinating.
  • Associating with conjunctions: associating things together.
  • Complexifying with conjunctions: making things more difficult than they are.
  • Adding conditions with conjunctions: creating subtle choice.
• Interjections: that inject emotion and uncertainty.
  • Using exclamations: Natural exclamations that inject emotion.
  • Using hesitation devices: Pauses that retain control.

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Using syntax

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