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Transcription: There are seven expansion techniques. The first is contrasting. Now, in this expansion you would be describing something, some item. It might be old, it might be of little value or it's some kind of an object and you would compare it with the opposite. So old versus new, falling apart versus more advanced. Here's an example. Let's say that I need to buy a new computer and there's a better computer. The old computer is old and slow and a new computer is fast and saves time. So I'm gonna buy the new one. So you see how I'm using the contrast, the comparing to give the expansion. The positive, th ...