Comments on: Grammar Day

By: nathan livingston

nathan livingston — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:49:15 +0000

Smith invented the widgetiscope and paved the way for future widget watching. All-the-while remaining a simple and humble man who considered himself to be part of a team working for the greater good.

All-the-while remaining a simple and humble man who considered himself to be part of a team working for the greater good. This is not a complete sentence. The entire thing should be one sentence.
“All-the-while” does not require hyphenation.

By: joshdee8

joshdee8 — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:56:03 +0000

i have a hard time with grammer. i don’t understand how or when to use alot of grammar. i guess i could say it is hard for me to hear the grammar problems.

By: samfoster

samfoster — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:30:41 +0000

Bad Grammar Example: “You can never have too many, books.”

I believe we call this one a comma splice. It’s easy to think that a comma should be used every time we pause for a breath or for emphasis, but this is not the proper use of punctuation.

By: Garrett

Garrett — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:27:00 +0000

Actually, the first example is two complete sentences.

So, instead of Example: Little Billy jumped for joy. He had won.

Do something like this:
Example: Little Billy jumped for joy. Won.

By: Hayley

Hayley — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:13:06 +0000

A common grammar mistake that irritates me to death is when people use the wrong “too,” “your,” and “there.” Every time I read a text or email and the wrong word is used, I get so annoyed that usually I won’t even text back. If a boy is texting me and uses this grammar mistake I most likely will not text him back because it is such a huge turn off.:)

By: camille

camille — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:01:43 +0000

I am guilty of the overuse of commas. I tend to put, too many, commas, where they don’t belong. In trying to correct this() I end up not using them when they need to be.

By: lawrencebrowning

lawrencebrowning — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:25:36 +0000

A common grammatical error that I find myself doing is the sentence fragment. As defined in the dictionary a sentence fragment is when you have a partial or incomplete thought, such as a subordinate clause or a phrase, that is used as a complete sentence. Huh?? I never understand these definitions so I decided to give you some examples:

Example: Little Billy jumped for joy. He had won.

Revision: Little Billy jumped for joy, because he had won.

This is an exaggerated example, but I hope you get my point. This kind of mistake can distract the writer and make them lose focus on the message that you are trying to convey. As Master Winn put it, the person might question your credibility and level of literacy.

By: jessicawood

jessicawood — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:51:46 +0000

I really think that it’s funny that it’s a poster for an English course. I’m also not sure if “prove” should have been changed to “improve.” Maybe the class is a way to prove that you actually CAN write in English. (But not with that poster )

By: jessicawood

jessicawood — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:49:05 +0000

My sentence is about using articles. “Find organization plan to make habit for semester” is improper English because the three nouns (plan, habit, semester) are all singular and can be counted. So, the correct sentence would say “Find AN organization plan to make A habit for THE semester.”

By: Gregory Jones

Gregory Jones — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:03:19 +0000

“although I lost the car keys.” This sentence is an example of an incomplete sentence also known as a dependent clause. “This clause does not express a complete thought and cannot stand alone.”