This past week for me has taken me back to the good ole days of school. You know the days were school was quite enjoyably, and we were more enthusiastic to learn. This makes me have to say that I am continually excited to be enrolled in this class. Throughout this past week, I have felt that I have begun a complete refresher on elementary grammar.
Starting off, during these week we went over all world class aka “Parts of Speech” , which I enjoyed defining them and receiving quick examples that I can continue to look back on. I know now a day’s lots of us know what a noun, verb adjective and adverb does, yet sometimes it doesn’t help to refresh or learn more about them. For example with a verb you can always put an –ing on it. “They want to go jump…”, “They want to go jumping”. Also on adjectives knowing that they are comparative and superlative, is something I feel I may have never know or forgot. (i.e. “happy, happier, happiest”).
Secondly, going over what we titled hard core grammar, was also a bit of a refresher. I feel that this example of subject and verb is something students know a sentence must have, but never really check to understand. As any level teacher, including college, I feel that teachers should refresh on this specific grammatical concept. I say this because even in the newspaper activity we did, some of us were unsure of the subject and verb. Which, I might add the newspaper activity is a great exercise for this purpose.
Lastly, I enjoyed going over the personal pronoun chart. I felt that going over the singular and plural was stimulating, yet then going over it in different parts of speech helped even more, especially getting into the plural subjects. I know for myself as a writer sometimes I sometimes have trouble translating what I say in my head onto the actual paper. AND, I will end up switching my narrative form. My question for this week is somewhat a simple one, yet I have been struggling with it in class. In class we talk about transit and intrasit verbs I believe, what are these exactly and when can we use them in our sentences?
short answer: A transitive verb wants a direct object (a noun) to receive its action; an intransitive verb doesn't have a direct object.
ReplyDeletecheck out p. 6 in our coursepack for some example sentences.
We're going to work a lot more with transitive verbs a bit later in the course...discovering that they really are the building blocks for great sentences.