Week 4 - Topical Guide

Thus continues the ongoing saga of the realization of how little I know about grammar. This weeks focus...verbs. I was able to read a few of the blog post that other students submitted, and this seemed to be a reoccurring phrase, "I didn't realize there were that many verbs." My thoughts exactly. For example, future perfect tense. It is something that I understand, but never knew there was a term for it. It indicates that an action will be completed at some point in the future. This tense is formed with "will" plus "have" plus the past participle of the verb.

For example, if I were to say, "I will have spent all my money by the end of the night."

Another lesson I learned from the topical guide section of the textbook, is about when to use "compliment" or "complement". To be honest, I didn't even know these were two words. Now I won't forget. Complement, means to complete something, or bring it together. So I would say that my wife complements me. Compliment, on the other hand, is when you are expressing praise or admiration. So I would compliment my wife on how well she complements me.

Well I hope that I was able to share a few helpful tips for grammar that you can take away and apply. The grammatical error that I read this week was actually in Weber States Signpost. On the back page of the Friday edition, there was an article about the player of the week in the NFL, which was awarded to Josh McCown. Unfortunately, I don't have the paper with me to site the errors. If you get the chance to pick one up on campus though, there were multiple in the first paragraph or two. Including the misspelling of 'Josh McCown.'