Week 3

The 11^th Secret:

The secret to achieving the least amount of grammatical mistakes possible, is to read your writing aloud. While taking the quizzes this week I found that when I came upon a question I did not know the answer to, I read the two paralleled statements out loud and picked the option that sounded correct. It is unbelievable how many mistakes we can find in our own writing as we read aloud our words. If able, we can take it a step further and have a third party read our writing out loud. I believe it is the most simple way to proof a piece we write.

Mistakes:

Rule #2: Currently I am over the service team at WSU and have been communicating with a lady within the design guild who is designing shirts for us. In an email I received just yesterday, she told me she placed an order for the shirts and said this: “There is a bin full of shirts that are yours to take come Thursday. That is when we will be done printing.” The subject and verb did not agree. The sentence should have started with “There is a bin full of shirts that is yours to take come Thursday.” The bin is the subject. 

Rule #7: This rule I find pretty often through text. I know people tend to talk in a lazy manner in text, but it happens to be a pet peeve of mine. I was texting my sister the other day who said, “Your going to dinner in Draper Thursday right?” The clear mistake in the sentence is the word your should be you’re. They are completely different functions. Your is possessive, while you’re is a contraction posing for you are.

Rule #9: This example also comes from a text. That is where I find most of my errors in writing. My mom texted me the other morning and said “Have a good day I love you so much see you tonight.” This is the perfect example of a lazy text, I even through in a capital letter to start the sentence off, which she didn’t even have. However, the mistake is found by not using a comma! It is clearly needed in this case. “Have a good day, I love you so much. I’ll see you tonight” would have been a much clearer statement.