Formal grammar

This highly informal, written conversation on Facebook messenger is between two cousins, James and Natalie, with the audience being each other. The function of the text is to arrange and discuss Christmas plans and to intend to see one another. The informal register reflects and supports the social purpose to consolidate their relationship and familiarity. The jovial and relaxed tone also shows their close relationship. The primary function of this text is to inform each other about their…

How do we decide what is correct and incorrect in terms of grammar and who decides this? Prescriptive rules and language authority are often talked about in the book How English Works by Anne Curzan and Michael Adams (Curzan and Adams, 2012). After doing some reading and research, the usage of prescriptive grammar rules in my future classroom would be very limited. I would limit these rules based off of language authority and grammar rules. Back to the question stated in the introduction, who…

Language Shifts in an Academic Article and Tweets Edward Finegan’s article, “What’s right or wrong about language, and who decides?” It is an academic article. Finegan explains that 1.what is “correct” Language, 2.Descriptive vs. Prescriptive Grammar, 3.Who’s Right? In re-writting the whole thing of Finegan’s article as some Tweets, I try my best to make it shorter and more informal. They have a lot different, like language choices, organization and formatting. In the original article, Finegan…

When I began this class, I was ignorant of the formal rules that govern the English language. Although I am an avid reader and I have always been confident of my vocabulary skills and comprehension ability, I knew that I was not a skilled author. I was unsure of the proper placement of colons and semicolons…

the children to learn how to write a correct sentence by Christmas. She uses a lot of gestures, direct instruction, she stops and explain difficult words while she talks, how words can have different meanings. Miss Krag said that her job is to teach formal English not the informal that they may learn in the street. Other accommodation that I noticed is that she asked 1st grader students to write small sentence, instead the second grader should form longer sentences. Another challenges that…

several courses through our Judicial Online University (JOU). The eleven courses I took were very informative and complex, so I have divided this report into two sections: grammar skills and the writing process. GRAMMAR SKILLS Grammar is extremely important because it is the foundation of communication. The better the grammar,…

At the point when many people consider the linguistic use they simply consider how our sentences are organized, and sincerely after grade school they have no idea how to truly put into syntax. Many individuals detest language structure on account of how much linguistic use was constrained upon them growing up, I was one of those individuals. When I got to school, I understood, that I give careful consideration to linguistic use than I suspected. Punctuation is truly essential to the English…

These more formal and more technical words are useful because they could capture more complete and complicate meanings than native words. Words like body parts, natural objects, and familial relations are native words; words like toponyms, food, and technology are…

own issues with grammar that they struggled with. The writing center afforded me the opportunity to address their issues and make them a better writer in the English language. It wasn’t enough to just correct the mistakes, but notice that they all stemmed from a commonality such as subject/verb confusion or sentence order. That correlates with Harris’ argument of “Why Writers Need…

structure, and how use of punctuation allows for sentences to be grammatically correct. One aspect of the grammar lesson that positively affected my writing was the use of a comma after an introductory phrase. The example from my ED three is this sentence: “In my experience, Pinterest is a good way…” The were a few cases in my ED three that I corrected the lack of such comma. The second grammar tool that I used to better my writing was the semicolons and colons. I have used semicolons before,…