During my service in the Marine Corps, I noticed that most of my Marines tended to overexplain everything. Briefs, orders, and general interactions were always filled with more detail, context, and superfluous modifiers that didn't benefit the message they were trying to communicate. We used to harp on brevity—say what you mean and mean what you say. I found myself—whether in my head or aloud—constantly saying "Get to the point! (GTTP or GTTFP if you want some extra flavor.)
Since being reintroduced to that, now as a tool for identifying claims, I've found that it works for me almost every time and the same rule applies with isolating the subject and predicate. If you had someone rambling about botanists, plants, and phosphorous and you told them to get to the point with as little fluff as possible, you'd likely end up with the subject and the predicate. That certainly wouldn't be a very helpful sentence but it would, in fact, be a sentence.
I'm not sure if anyone will find this helpful but I'm thinking "GTTFP" with almost every sentence I initially read and its proved helpful so far.
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During my service in the Marine Corps, I noticed that most of my Marines tended to overexplain everything. Briefs, orders, and general interactions were always filled with more detail, context, and superfluous modifiers that didn't benefit the message they were trying to communicate. We used to harp on brevity—say what you mean and mean what you say. I found myself—whether in my head or aloud—constantly saying "Get to the point! (GTTP or GTTFP if you want some extra flavor.)
Since being reintroduced to that, now as a tool for identifying claims, I've found that it works for me almost every time and the same rule applies with isolating the subject and predicate. If you had someone rambling about botanists, plants, and phosphorous and you told them to get to the point with as little fluff as possible, you'd likely end up with the subject and the predicate. That certainly wouldn't be a very helpful sentence but it would, in fact, be a sentence.
I'm not sure if anyone will find this helpful but I'm thinking "GTTFP" with almost every sentence I initially read and its proved helpful so far.