Finding grammar mistakes was really hard for me. I was able to find this great link to some extremely funny grammar mistakes. It’s funny because you know the person who wrote it didn’t mean it the way it’s read. I mean, who would want used toilet paper?! I think all of us have done that one time or another.
I would also like to share a little story about how grammar has changed how I read already. I have been trying to read The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, and it has been a struggle for me. The sentences are too long and it seems she has so may ideas in one paragraph that it’s hard to follow. After the readings last week, I started the book where I left off. To my surprise, it made so much more sense! I finally noticed the wonderful punctuation and the vocabulary she used. I am now totally loving this book. Thank you grammar!
New Vocabulary Words:
Patroon: a person who held an estate in land with certain manorial privileges granted under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey.
This was a word from The Age Of Innocence and this is the sentence it was in: “Mr. and Mrs. van der Luyden divided their time between Trevenna, their place in Maryland, and Skuytercliff, the great estate on the Hudson which had been one of the colonial grants of the Dutch government tot he famous first Governor, and of which Mr. van der Luyden was still “Patroon.”
Halituous: produced by, or like, breath; vaporous. You can make a fingerprint show up on glass by using your halituous.
Diffidence: The state of being diffident, timid or shy; reticence or self-effacement. As a child, Sarah always spoke with diffedence.
January 31, 2009 at 4:11 pm |
It’s amazing how much better you read after you can learn and understand grammar. It sounds like it has really helped you out.
February 2, 2009 at 7:23 am |
I need to read more. I know I would fall under this same category. Is this a good book?