Week Three Blog

This week was pretty challenging for me, as a lot of the sentences that needed correcting (like that/which issues, how many ____ are in this sentence) were concepts I haven’t learned about, or even thought about, for many years. With that said, I reviewed some things and did learn a lot of things that I wasn’t sure about previously. Hopefully they will stick with the great way the book explains things.

The 11th secret I would add would be:

Read Your Writing Out Loud. For everything important that I write, I try to read it out loud before submitting it or turning it in. That way, if something is written funky, I tend to stumble over it while reading aloud and have to figure out what I need to change.

Here are my three found grammar mistakes:

I found this on Twitter. Jaclyn Hill is a makeup artist with many followers, so I understand that accidents can happen when you’re typing hundreds of responses. However, the sentence should read. “It takes a lot more than that to make me mad.”

A friend shared this meme on Facebook. I think that it needs a comma, so it would read, “If you don’t study, you shall not pass.”

The last one I didn’t get a photo of, but I was at a festival in Salt Lake City last weekend, and there were lots of food booths. One of the booths had a handwritten menu with the food they offered and their prices. All the prices were written as times (5:00) rather than the dollar amount ($5.00).