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- Multiplied Intelligence Personnel Simulator (M.I.P.S.)
- Copyright 1987, Michael Reed.
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- ║ COMBINING SENTENCES ║
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- Combining sentences allows M.I.P.S. to answer more than one
- question using a single answer.
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- Combining sentences also allows users to be more
- flexible when asking a question.
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- Only teachers need to learn how to combine sentences.
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- Combining sentences is really very simple.
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- First, write down all the ways
- you think someone might ask the question you are
- trying to teach a M.I.P.S. personality.
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- Then type the longest sentence from your list followed by
- a space, a period and a space.
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- Then type all the words from the other ways you worded your sentence
- that are not already in the first sentence.
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- If you do not understand, here is an example:
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- EXAMPLE: (How to teach a personality to tell you its name)
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- │ Can you tell me your name? │
- │ Tell me your name. │
- │ What is your name? │ ══╤═ 5 ways to ask the same question.
- │ What's your name? │ │
- │ Do you have a name? │ │
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- ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Can you tell me your name? . Tell name. What is What's Do have a │
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- First type the longest sentence (by number of words)
- and type a space, period and a space.
- Follow this with each new word from the other sentences.
- There is no need to repeat words used more than one time.
- NOTE: "name?" is read differently than "name."
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