James Somerton was making $170,000 a year with nearly 6 million views and 267,000 subscribers on YouTube, until…

  • @TheActualDevil@lemmy.world
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    -51 year ago

    I have no issue with the content provided, but I wanted to give a little constructive criticism on the structure of your writing. Real small. When you say,

    There was another aspect to this video, which was that when Somerset actually…

    When you say there is a thing, the reader is going to assume the next thing you write to be that thing. So you don’t need the “which is that.” You can just launch right into what you’re going to say, you already set it up. You basically said “I have a thing to say. The thing I have to say is this:”

    Everything else is informative and well presented. No other notes.

    • @SomeoneElse@lemmy.ca
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      61 year ago

      Would you need a semicolon then or not?

      There was another aspect of the video; Somerset actually made up…

      • Eh doesn’t really flow compared to the original. I would have to reread to understand.

        I’m all for omitting unnecessary words, but certain cliché connectors are so ubiquitous that they act as punctuation. You don’t notice them, but reading is less comfortable when they’re missing.

    • Gnome Kat
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      61 year ago

      No other notes.

      There is another aspect to your comment, which was that it made me laugh really hard.:)

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