Exercise 1 — Label the weld

Ten stuck sentences. For each, name which of the six is welded shut. One answer each; no reframing yet.

1. "I've never been good at money."
2. "Everyone in my cohort has a book out."
3. "There's no point raising it, they've already decided."
4. "I don't know why I check his messages, I always feel worse."
5. "If I'd been sharper in that meeting none of this would have happened."
6. "This has been going on for years."
7. "I'm a private person, it's just how I am."
8. "By the time I'd have finished the degree I'd be forty-two."
9. "I keep saying yes and I can't work out what's wrong with me."
10. "Compared to what she went through, I've got nothing to complain about."

How to tell if it's any good: your answers should take under ten seconds each and you should have used at least four different frames across the ten. If you labelled six or more with the same frame, you are pattern-matching on content rather than grammar — go back and read only the verb and the noun of each sentence, ignoring the subject matter entirely. Two of these are genuinely ambiguous and defensible either way; if you found no ambiguity at all you were not reading closely, and if you found it in more than three you are overthinking a recognition drill.