Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 17 AIL 1638 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Trap: Milton Read at Speed
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The idea
His sentences are long enough that a reader can reach the end of a passage without having located a main verb. The sense then assembles from fragments and is usually wrong. Slow down and parse, which costs less time than answering from a misreading.
In practice
Parse it; do not skim it.
Where people slip
Skimming assembles a wrong sense.
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