Okay, at least for the next few posts I will try and proof read the blog before posting. I have found after rereading many of the posts, they have one error or another, ones that I could have easily fixed if I had just reread it. So...once again my apologies.
For those of you who don't know, I learned my grammar by reading, and I never paid much attention to commas, colons, semicolons etc... By the time I got into school that whole basic grammar thing had been learned and I was left out in the cold. I have no idea what a participle is let alone a dangling participle. Adverbs and adjectives I have a glimmer of an idea what they are but I have to stop and really think about it.
I was told by my English teacher that all great artist need to know how to punctuate before they can disregard the punctuation rules. This was the teacher who xeroxed my paper and handed it out to the class to show other students how not to write.
Now I can look back at it and say shame on her, but at the time I was the one shamed. It is clear to see how easily we let the world judge us - In so many different ways.
For those of you who don't know, I learned my grammar by reading, and I never paid much attention to commas, colons, semicolons etc... By the time I got into school that whole basic grammar thing had been learned and I was left out in the cold. I have no idea what a participle is let alone a dangling participle. Adverbs and adjectives I have a glimmer of an idea what they are but I have to stop and really think about it.
I was told by my English teacher that all great artist need to know how to punctuate before they can disregard the punctuation rules. This was the teacher who xeroxed my paper and handed it out to the class to show other students how not to write.
Now I can look back at it and say shame on her, but at the time I was the one shamed. It is clear to see how easily we let the world judge us - In so many different ways.
Yeah and don't forget the teacher who downgraded my story because there was too much blood in it! If only we had perspective when we were 13 years old.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to have that teacher AND your accounting teacher at Seattle CC visit my rifle range. We'd give them a sporting chance & let them start running at 200 or 300 yards (well, maybe that isn't such a good chance, but .....)
ReplyDeleteT3 needs to remember that she was schooled in Hindi when grammar went around. Her "TSH" mate is a good grammarian but a DULL writer.
I'll take T3's blogs ANY DAY!!!!