Was Grade School Really That Long Ago?
I took a computer based course at work that was meant to improve writing in business. The main topic was an in depth discussion of the eight parts of speech. For those of you who have also forgotten, the eight parts are as follows: Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adverbs, Adjectives, Conjunctions, Interjections and Prepositions.
I took a computer based course at work that was meant to improve writing in business. The main topic was an in depth discussion of the eight parts of speech. For those of you who have also forgotten, the eight parts are as follows: Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adverbs, Adjectives, Conjunctions, Interjections and Prepositions.
I am embarrassed to admit that I received a score of only
68% correct on the pre-course exam. (Struggled to answer any Simple, Perfect or
Progressive verb tense questions correctly.) Although I took this course
lightly, thinking that this was all taught back in grade school, I was shocked
at how much I’d not retained. Plus there have been numerous changed in English grammar.
For instance it is now proper to begin a sentence with a proposition, such as “but”.
I thought that for as much as I read and write on a daily basis, an English
grammar course would be a waste of time, it wasn’t. Well, hopefully my writing has
not truly been God awful all this time!
In this series of posts I am going to share some of what I was retaught in this class.
1) The 8 Parts of Speech
2) The Use of Nouns
In this series of posts I am going to share some of what I was retaught in this class.
1) The 8 Parts of Speech
2) The Use of Nouns
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