Sunday, October 16, 2016
This week I learned a lot from the AP book. Throughout the quiz I would read through the question and take a guess on what I thought it would be, it almost never was my guess. I again realized that I should never guess when it comes to grammar because it surprises me every time. One of the main things that shocked me were the numerals. In this section I learned something different every time. I also really enjoyed looking at different company names and how you refer to them. I never thought that the proper way to refer to eBay was like that. I also thought that it was very interesting how you properly do addresses and the times you are supposed to abbreviate different words in the address. I find it crazy how complicated some of the rules are and I often question who comes up with the rules. Another rule that made me re-think everything was the correct way to call a girl "blonde" I found this confusing because it is different for a girl and a boy. You use it as a noun for males and an adjective for all applications. I find it so strange that there isn't just one spelling for it. I think about people who have to learn English as a second language and just feel sorry that they have to also put up with all of these interchanging rules.
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I agree, Hanna. It is so difficult for us (now after reading this book) to imagine what it would be like for those learning English. I hear it is actually a difficult language to learn. But no wonder it is, there are so many different rules, it is amazing to see.
ReplyDeleteI thought the blonde thing was pretty funny too. Isn't weird that our society is taking such great effort into moving into a gender "neutral" world, but still have a specific name associated to only women?
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