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Monday
Mar012010

“If you like chocolate, you'll love...”

You hear a commercial for chocolate chip cookies. It says:   

If you like chocolate, you'll love Tollhouse double chocolate chip cookies.

if you like ___, you'll love ___   

This structure is often used in advertisements to tie the product that's being sold to something else that the customers already like.


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