Hillmer’s Art of Persuasion

Corbet's Imitation Exercises

Sample Imitations:

Model Sentence from Orwell's Burmese Days

1. I ate my sandwich in silence sitting alone on the park bench and shivering from the cold grey winter weather.

Model Sentence from Orwell's Raffles and Miss Blandish

2. If she insists on being selfish, it is more effective if her mother financially cut her off than continue to cater to her every whim.

Model Sentence from Joyce's Counterparts

3. She raced down one of the soccer fields at Pleasentview complex, wishing that her coach would stop yelling at the team and believe they could win the game.

Variation and Expression:

Model Sentence from Joyce's Counterparts

1. Variation: Muttering to himself that they could all go to hell because he was going to have a night of it, he quickly went through the narrow alley of Temple Bar.

Alternate: He was going to have a good night of it, all the while muttering to himself that they could all go to hell, and then he quickly went through the narrow alley of Temple Bar.