Week 4

While doing the active voice assignment, I wondered when I would need to use passive voice. I feel like it is easier and better to use active voice when writing. It seems to flow much better that way. Reading the book, however, helped me see when passive voice would be a benefit. Here is the quote from our book: “You might want passive voice when you need to stress the receiver of the action rather than the performer or when the performer is unknown.”

I learned many other things this week about grammar and editing. Another thing I learned was what an appositive is. An appositive is a phrase or word that adds information about the previous word. We see this often when names are used. The example in the book is: “My friend John helped write headlines while his friend Susan did the design.”  Susan and John are both appositives. I also learned that good writing takes time. It takes a lot of time to come up with powerful verbs that express similar messages.

The mistake that I wanted to post this week has to do with run-on sentences.  The mistake was found today on Facebook.  This is what it says:

“Good morning everyone I’m up and going put a roast in the crockpot with potatos celery mushrooms onions and corn, and going to go do my laundry at the laundry mat to wash my clothes, my hairs not done o well.. Hope everyone is having a great Saturday”

This sentence needs a few more periods and commas. In addition to the run-on sentence, "potatoes" is spelled wrong.