Reading a newspaper article. My first inclination in regards to the article, was not if the sentences are structured grammatically. Thinking of grammar makes me queezy inside. Even while learning about it I get nautious, because I think of sentences and how they should be structured and when I think about it to much, I cause my self a headache.
The thing I like about grammar is not a single thing. Me and grammar are on complete different ends of the spectrum. While she is very organized, structured and mechanical, I’m none of those things and Mrs. Cullar, you knew that from day one.
Grammer is very hard for me to understand. I think it is a very tedious task, you might spend hours on looking for grammer and end up screwing up on one sentence, so then it throws a chain reaction to the essay that you spent so much time on and messed up on one sentence. It’s hard for me to disect a sentence and find the intricies of it, then figuring out the proper grammar for that sentence, thus making the sentence flow better.
The thing I think that would help me understand grammer better, is to find the types of grammar that people usually screw up on. Because I am deffinately a “rookie” when it comes to grammar, and if we take baby steps with grammar, I might just start to comprehend it better.
My biggest pet peave when it comes to grammar is when I am reading a twitter post and someone completely uses the wrong word, although similar spelling and it sounds the same, the meaning is completely different. Also just reading Facebook statuses in general, they almost none of the time have the right grammatics and the facebookers’ write this very long status and with one error in a similiar word, but they don’t use it correctly completely turns off my interest to even read the status.
If only Mr. Lindley Murray was here today. To to see what grammar has come to today in the USA. By the way Lindley Murray is the father of grammar. I am still on my quest to make Lindley proud.
– Will Nystrom
