Personal Narrative Analysis

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The revision lessons were a helpful tool to learn. The best thing I learned was to read it aloud as opposed to reading it in my mind. I caught much more of my mistakes reading it aloud since I could hear the parts that I stumbled on, whether it be because of bad grammar or even just not making since as a whole. One item I believe that was lacking in these lessons was to identify passive voice in sentences. I know how to fix a sentence or phrase that is passive, but I still have a hard time identifying when it is passive. However, I am pretty good at not writing in passive voice in the first place I believe that a little more time could be spent teaching how to identify passive voice for those that write in passive voice excessively. Finally,

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