Manipulation...bwahahahaha!!!

Style Academy #4
Manipulating Parts
I expect that this will show me how to use syntax and sentence order to make my sentences more powerful and impactful. I'm hoping to learn how to add more variety to my writing and make it more interesting to read.i know that word order and sentence order is powerful, but i'm interested to see how they play with it; you really can't play with syntax and word order too much while writing prose or else sound like Yoda you will, which is obviously not the most professional way to come across, especially in an academic paper.
So, the video teaches that every sentence is made up of two major elements: main ideas and modifiers. The position of the modifiers, as openers, closers, or interrupters, can determine their importance to your reader; for example putting a modifier in the closer position will cause it to stay in the reader's mind because it's the last thing they heard in the sentence, but the interrupter, put in the middle of the main idea, is seen as subordinate or simply adding fun extras to the main idea of the sentence.  a modifier placed in the interrupter position does have merit, however, in that it makes our writing sound more conversational and is effective in referencing things that were brought up earlier in the piece. you can make a modifier a main idea, or a main idea a modifier, depending on what effect you want to have. you can also have multiple modifiers and main ideas in the sentence and create patterns with them.
It's all about how the modifiers effect the main idea of the sentence and how important that modifier is to the point that you want your audience to believe, and what you want the audience to take away.

Exercise

Main: Snowden self-indulgently short circuited the democratic structures of accountability.
Modifier: he was putting his own preferences above everything else.

• Opener:
• Putting his own preferences above everything else, Snowden self-indulgently short circuited the democratic structures of accountability.
• Interrupter:
• Snowden, putting his own preferences above everything else, self-indulgently short circuited the democratic structures of accountability.
• Closer:
• Snowden self-indulgently short circuited the democratic structures of accountability, putting his own preferences above everything else,