I found this week’s chapters more of a review than new
knowledge, mostly because of my my 8th grade English teacher (thank
you, Mrs. Greco). She was a stickler for
active voice, because of this we were forbidden from using all the forms of “to
be” in our papers. To the tune of
twinkle-twinkle little star we would sing, “is am are was were be being, been
have has had se-e-ems” while writing every paper. This forced us to write in
simple past, present, or future tense. This also
forced me to learn active voice.
I highly recommend every student learn to look
for the “to be” verbs, as they help identify tense changes and passive voice.
Sing the song to yourself, learn it. You won’t be sorry!
Something that really caught me off guard was perfect and
progressive forms. I knew they were a form of tense, but it was really
interesting learning their rules. I found it intuitive once I started thinking
of of “perfect” as “completed”. So in
past perfect, it’s a past tense verb that has already been done. “He has thrown the ball”. Future perfect, is an action that will have
been done. For example: if your making a
plan in the future about a football play “he will have thrown the ball by the time the receiver
gets to the hook”.
It also really helped to remember that all progressive
tenses, the verbs end in -ING because something is currently progressing.
This week I found this poster on campus. Who can find the
commonly misspelled word? Also who noticed the sentence fragment and the misuse
of the period, how about the verb subject agreement (who love children). This whole poster really
needs an editors help!
I may or may not have laughed out loud at your example of a flyer you found on campus. As far as your song, I wish this class was in person so you could teach all of us. I feel like it would help me out a lot if I fully understood. Thanks for your post!
ReplyDeleteHaha! If you come to the test review on Friday I'll sing it for you!
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