Comments on: Reading for May 21st

By: jpmurri

jpmurri — Fri, 22 May 2009 03:16:23 +0000

My biggest problem i have is i always use different tenses throughout a paper. So i have to focus on that more.

By: Garrett

Garrett — Thu, 21 May 2009 23:08:42 +0000

Good correction.

But now you have passive voice. Is that OK?

By: Garrett

Garrett — Thu, 21 May 2009 23:07:12 +0000

That’s why I said to “review” it

By: Garrett

Garrett — Thu, 21 May 2009 23:06:27 +0000

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.

By: lorimiller

lorimiller — Thu, 21 May 2009 22:00:37 +0000

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

By: mikeclove

mikeclove — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:56:06 +0000

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.”

By: Henrik

Henrik — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:48:48 +0000

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.

By: kevin.bell13

kevin.bell13 — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:07:18 +0000

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

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:56:19 +0000

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.