10/7/16 Eric Lesch

Today in class, we discussed how syntax affects clarity . Syntax is the use of word order and word choice. We analyzed this topic by going over the 6 interrogative verbs (who, what, when, where, why, and how) and how they create specificity. As a class we looked at a picture on the board of Micheal Scott from the infamous T.V show, The Office. Mr. Rivers provided us with one sentence about the picture. The sentence was "The shot shows a nervous man". We then began to analyze the sentence in our groups to try and figure out how we can make this sentence more detailed and specific. Each group posted a comment on classroom of their new and improved sentence using multiple interrogative adverbs. As a class we decided that the sentence, "The shot shows the office manager Micheal Scott at Dunder-Mifflin Paper Company nervously biting his lip", was the most developed sentence using the interrogative adverbs. Just by going over the 6 interrogative adverbs we were able to change a very broad sentence to a very specific and detailed sentence. As a treat, Mr. Rivers showed us the clip from an episode of The Office, where the image was taken from. In this episode, Micheal runs over Meredith and has to let the rest of the office know that he did it. Micheal does this by being very broad and not specific making it hard for the office to understand what happened. The hilarious clip, shows us that the use of syntax and specific adverbs really helps when trying to discuss in detail about a topic. After we had a good laugh and finished discussing the clip, we dove back into our Intertextuality Essays and tried to take one sentence that we felt could be improved on with the use of syntax and make it much  more detailed and specific. Then, the bell rang.

The clip we watched in class:
DISCLAIMER the clips linked below are taken off Youtube and are not the best quality. It is not the entire clip we watched in class, but it should give you a feel of what we watched in class.

Meredith getting hit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqivZzA2dvY

Micheal trying to explain the incident:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFn5vD0HDKk