Article 1 Response

I liked the way the article was broken up into the different types of grammar problems people have. It was easy to read and understand. I made a connection with me, myself, and I . My aunt always used to correct me when I would say me and so and so, instead of so and so and I. The article talked about how "... most of us have said it ourselves; for some reason, it comes trippingly off the tongue. We also (most of us) know not to use it in a piece of writing meant to be published." I don't do it anymore since I have been corrected so much. Something I still have problems with is parallelism and the article didn't help very much. It was one of the smallest sections. Something I think I am starting to master is semicolons. You use it to separate two complete clauses or to separate a list of items that already contains punctuation. This article is a good, small look at some common grammar problems people have. I think it was both helpful and a little too simple. Things weren't explain as well as they could be for all sections, I had some confusion with the smaller sections. In class I would like to discuss the quote "Moreover, grammar is one of the least pressing problems when it comes to the poor state of writing today." I think that is interesting because if the problems aren't things like what is talked about in the article then what are they. I believe if you have the learned skills like grammar, then you can be at least some what successful in writing.