Reflective Essay About Grammar Skills

Taking this writing course has helped me to learn a lot more about grammar skills. Before taking this course,I would always have a hard time writing papers because I did not use proper grammar skills. By using the book Evergreen that we use in class it has helped me come a long way,I liked the fact that it gives me alots of examples. It also has exercises for me to practice after I have reviewed what I have learned. By writing more on a daily basis, it has forced me to reference my grammar, and spelling skills that I had developed as a student. Spelling was a big one for me,I grow up all my life spelling words that I thought where compound words and come to find out some of them were not compound words. Also as a child I would often get words …show more content…
I remember when I got my first essay back and my professor wrote on my paper sentence fragment. I said to my self sentence fragment had no idea what that meant. Before I would write sentences and to me it seem 'ed like they were ok and sounded ok as well. So learning how to use sentence structure help me make sure that a sentence will be fully understood and also be a complete sentences instead of a run on sentence as well. I learned how to go back and repair my sentence fragments, or else combine choppy statement into a compound sentence in order to improve my sentence structure. Using proper sentence structure makes the information more logical and easy to read. It keeps my topics more …show more content…
I have never been good with capitalization or punctuation. I never knew when I should use a comma, exclamation, or a semicolon in a sentence, never knew where they belong either. I always know after a period you would also start your next sentence with a capital letter. Commas has always been hard for me, but taking this course has help me understand how to use a comma. Commas are used in multiple uses, I learned how to separate two ideas in a sentence. It is also are used to separate multiple adjective that is describing the same thing. They also use to separate three or more comma sets off subordinate clauses that qualify main clauses. I learned to proper way to use a semicolon in a sentence. In order to use a semicolon you have to have two complete sentence on their own in order to use the semicolon. I learned what an exclamation point is and what it means and the correct way to use it. It is used to end a sentence, but it also add 's