The St. Olaf Orchestra is hard at work, VERB ENDING IN ING and getting ready for their upcoming NOUN. The orchestra room is filled with NOUN as the ADJECTIVE orchestra practices. The strings are playing ADVERB , the woodwinds are VERB ENDING IN ING their instruments, and the brass are VERB ENDING IN ING so loudly you can hear them all the way in PLACE . The ADJECTIVE musicians are working hard.
But ORCHESTRA DIRECTOR isn’t satisfied. “Stop,” he cuts off the orchestra. It takes the musicians AMOUNT OF TIME to finally stop playing, but once they do, everyone’s eyes turn toward the ADJECTIVE conductor.
“You need to play it more ADVERB . Like you’re VERB ENDING IN ING a NOUN. Pretend you’re at/in PLACE with a glass of ADJECTIVE TYPE OF LIQUID in your hand. Sound like that when you play. Ok?”
The orchestra, though they are ADJECTIVE, VERB ENDING IN S in response, getting their NOUN ready to play again. ORCHESTRA DIRECTOR gives them a cue, and they start to play again, this time with more NOUN in their sound.
Evidently, this is not ADJECTIVE enough for ORCHESTRA DIRECTOR . “No, no, no,” he VERB ENDING IN S at the orchestra. “You’re not VERB ENDING IN ING correctly. Play it like CELEBRITY is VERB ENDING IN ING in the audience. Think PLURAL NOUN, lots and lots of SAME PLURAL NOUN . I want to feel like I’m being PAST TENSE VERB when you play. In fact... don’t even play this time. I want you to VERB instead.”
The orchies all look at each other with ADJECTIVE expressions, but they follow their conductor’s NOUN. The sound they make is extremely ADJECTIVE; surely this can’t be what ORCHESTRA DIRECTOR wants?
But when they finish, the conductor breaks into a smile. “Yes, that was ADJECTIVE,” he says. “Play it this time, but keep that NOUN in your sound when you play.”
The orchestra VERB ENDING IN S, feeling ADJECTIVE, but they play it again, ADVERB. At last, it seems, ORCHESTRA DIRECTOR is satisfied.
