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4. OPERATIVE WORD SCORING
This is one of the best text-analysis tools you can learn.
Exercise A: Highlight the Thought
Text: "I never asked you to do that."
Choose ONE operative word.
Examples:
  • I never asked you to do that.
  • (not someone else)
  • I never asked you to do that.
  • (not at any time)
  • I never asked you to do that.
  • (it wasn't my request)
  • I never asked you to do that.
  • (someone else maybe)
Each version gets spoken aloud.

Exercise B: Score a Monologue:
  • Underline operative words. (Basically: Operative words are the words you'd highlight in a sentence.)
  • Circle emotional turns.
  • Mark pauses (/).
  • Mark thought shifts (//).
Then perform.
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