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Thank you We sneak in Oh How many sentences do

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you think you said today Go ahead and think about

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it Maybe you said what you wanted for breakfast Maybe

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you ask your mom where your other she wass maybe

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you told a great knock knock joke to your best

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friend Yep you've probably set a lot People say all

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sorts of stuff that they're hungry for lunch How much

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we like our new jacket that if the bell doesn't

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ring soon we'll eat our new jacket for lunch Well

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maybe not that last one Anyway he sentences touch on

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very different things but a lot of them can be

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divided into two big categories Perfect and opinion facts are

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not only true but they can be proven to be

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true Whether it's through research observations or personal experience affect

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can always be proven in some way and that's a

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fact jack opinions on the other hands can't be proven

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they're based on people's personal beliefs or tastes And although

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they can be supported by facts they can't actually be

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proven to be true no matter how loudly there shouted

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across the thanksgiving dinner table Okay uncle jim Okay that's

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Pretty simple right But it's not Always easy to tell

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effect from an opinion Sometimes tiny slips of language allow

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opinion to creep into facts and that's no good If

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you like your facts to be super duper factual let's

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consider this sentence as an example The gorgeous actress and

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singer selena gomez was born in grand prairie texas If

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we consult her wikipedia page her birth certificate or make

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a long distance phone call to her parents any of

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those methods will verify that she was indeed born in

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grand prairie texas So that's a fact right We can

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call it a day Pack it up Go home Not

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so fast A bit of opinion has slipped into the

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sentence Can you spot it Yep the ward gorgeous So

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sneaky whether or not someone is gorgeous is a matter

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of opinion not fact So this sentence isn't purely factual

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but all we have to do to make this sentence

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completely factual got out that opinion word and bam fact

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once we know the differences between facts and opinions it's

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a lot easier to make sure sneaky opinions aren't creeping

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into our fact That being said there's nothing wrong with

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opinions and they can sometimes be a bit more fun

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than a pile of boring old back Well that's Just 00:02:15.04 --> [endTime] our opinion anyway

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