Week 4

WEEK 4:

This week’s assignments started off pretty well.  I felt comfortable with “It’s” vs. “its” and I also felt pretty good with run-on-sentences and active voice vs. passive voice. Then came the verb assignment… I was not so comfortable anymore. I didn’t realize how much I struggled with verbs and how many different kinds of verbs there are out there. I have never even heard of the word “gerunds.” I didn’t even know how to pronounce this word at first. I had to ask my husband and then look up a few different definitions and examples of this kind of verb. After looking it up, I figured out that a gerund is “a noun made from a verb by adding “-ing.” “The gerund form of the verb “read” is “reading.” “You can use a gerund as the subject, the complement, or the object of a sentence.”

Errors:

Incorrect: I am thinking to write a book.

Correct: I am thinking of writing a book.

Incorrect: I like singing, dancing and to paint.

Correct: I like singing, dancing and painting.

Incorrect: There is no hope of the fog’s lifting.

Correct: There is no hope of the fog lifting.