The reading for Thursday, the 21st is basically about grammar. I just expect you to go over things that you need or want to learn more about. There won’t be a specific quiz (yet) about grammar things. There will probably be one about general grammar principles, though.
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The best example I have of funny grammar is not from a written text. A guy I work with always uses the word was, in place of were. For example we was at the grocery store, or we was watching nascar. I never correct him, I just think its funny.
One of the mistakes that I make is deciding between who and whom. In my grammer book it says that who is the subject pronoun and whom is the object pronoun. A pronoun takes place of a noun. Subject pronouns are used when the pronoun is the subject of the sentence and object pronouns are used everywhere else.
Incorrect example:
Who did you send the letter to?
Correct example:
To whom did you send the letter?
Remember that subject pronouns are words like I, he, she, we, etc and object pronouns are words like me, us, him, her, etc.
Who=subject
Whom=object
You could also say “Whom did you send the letter to?” Although, some English teachers think this is poor grammar.
In actually, it is perfectly fine in English, but poor in Latin.
The reading was way too long to grip my attention. I just looked over all the pages. The first part talks about equality in every aspect of your paper. The second part informs on the structure of sentences and what each part of a sentence is.
One of the biggest mistakes that I see involves their, there, and they’re. I was helping a college classmate revise her paper and she kept saying, “There main purpose was…” It’s sad how common this occurs.
That’s why I said to “review” it
The dangling participle is one grammatical mistake I’m sure I make all the time.
Incorrect example: “Featuring high quality tunes, we highly recommend this album.”
What has high quality tunes? “We” or the album?
Modifying phrases put at the beginning of a sentance need to be immediately followed by the object they are modifying (i.e. the oranges, not me).
Correct Example: “Featuring high quality tunes, this album comes highly recommended by us.”
Good correction.
But now you have passive voice. Is that OK?
The biggest grammar error we make in my family is using learned instead of taught. That’s how my grandma talked and we all do just to make a joke of it. Indstead of saying I taught her a lesson we say I learned her a lesson. Odd I know
My biggest problem i have is i always use different tenses throughout a paper. So i have to focus on that more.