As a recent joiner to the major of English Education, I have been skeptical about what is going to be in store for me. Yet, with my nerves set aside I am glad to say that I am excited to take this specific course, because my grammar skills are week. I am in no way a professional writer, and teaching writing and grammar has been one of my fears.
My grammatical weaknesses range in many ways from commons, semi-colons, and apostrophes to making a sentence just sound plain awkward. Fortunately, I have had the benefit of others proofreading my papers and fixing my errors. Yet, what happens to me when I’m the one who’s supposed to be proof reading?
Like stated in Professor Monroe’s blog entry, I wonder how my grammatical skills are not as strong as I would like them to be. When, I look back and reflect on my school years, I cannot remember hounding down the grammatical rights and wrongs like others do. I think partially have this reason to blame, yet I think a lot of it has to do with how we communicate these days. We use a lot of slang, or acronyms in our writing, and due to this we forget the proper ways of writing.
Like I stated a lot of my writings can be small errors to fix such as using a “we” were I should use “one”. I tend to think about how to write it in my head, but when it comes out on paper they don’t match up. Also I rarely use hyphens or dashes in my writing so when I do I improperly use them.
“It consists of fresh out of the oven cinnamon rolls, donuts, strawberries, and milk”, when it should be “It consists of fresh-out-of-the oven cinnamon rolls, donuts, strawberries and milk”.
Yet my worst habits to break are commas, and apostrophes. I try to put them in, yet when people proof read I put them in the wrong spot, there should be more, it should be a semi-colon and so on. I also have a tendency to have run on sentence, because I feel I need to insert more commons, when really I should just end and begin a new sentence.
“To develop an inside source, an interview was done with Mary Crowell a Teaching and Learning faculty member at Washington State University. Before starting this interview Crowell was asked several questions beginning with…”
Once I went over it I realized that a lot of my commons were not in the proper place and it really did not make sense. I have corrected it by rewording and to put commons in places such as “Before, starting”. As for apostrophes I have a bit of trouble with possession and whether to put the apostrophe on the outside or the inside.
“Sarah’s teacher was overwhelmed with the grading she received after being gone for so long”.
When it comes to the apostrophe on the inside like the above sentence I understand, yet it’s the apostrophes on the outside that I need to work on.
As for a last not I sometimes mess up with things such as whom and who, and sometimes will change the voice when I’m writing. Overall, I am eager to start re-learning my grammatical skills and improve my writing!
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