LEL lesson 3 and 4

Grammar Skills 3: Practice with Subjects, Verbs, & Pronouns

a) Your interest level : I find that really resumes the importance of all this «Listen carefully to people today. Do you hear common errors such as "I could of gone out if I had done my work"? Once you make it a habit to listen for verb choice errors, you'll realize how many people make them. Some mistakes are so accepted that they might not sound strange at first. The more sensitive you are to grammatical errors, the less likely you'll be to make them yourself—in both writing and speaking.»

b) Difficulty level for you: I had problems with, here are some examples:

Answer: Before I opened the door, I had rung the doorbell.

You Said:		rang
Answer: The president wishes he would have taken a stock option rather than a salary increase. You Said: of
	Answer: Boswick wishes he would have ordered a bigger sweatshirt because his is too small. You Said: was

c) What you learned: (verb tense)

Subjunctive Mood

When Tevya in Fiddler on the Roof sings, "If I were a rich man. . . ," he uses the verb were to signal that he is, in fact, not a rich man. Normally, the verb was would be used with the subject I, but were serves a special purpose. This is called the subjunctive were. It indicates a condition that is contrary to fact.

Examples:

If I were a cat, I could sleep all day long and never have to worry about work. If he were more attentive to details, he could be a copyeditor.

d) Your score: There was no score at the end for this lesson, but I guess I would of had 75%, because there was ones again a lot of theory, but I think I would of had to have more exercises to practice one to have a better mark at the end. It is with practice that you become good with all I learned in this lesson.

Skills 4: Adjectives, Adverbs, & Confusing Words

a) Your interest level: In this lesson, you lurn things little details, like depending where you put a word, it can change the meaning of the sentence.

b) Difficulty level for you: I would say that it is good for students that are already very comfortable with English because, the grammar rules are filled with very little details, if I can say, making it not that obvious, even for me. Not everything was easy for me, it was a lot of grammar that I never paid attention to!

c) What you learned:

Good and Well : I did not realise that there was a proper time to use one or the other.

Good is an adjective. Well is an adverb. Sometimes good is mistakenly used to describe a verb. Use well to describe an action. The words modified by good and well are underlined in the examples below.

Brenton did well on the test. Raul felt good after the marathon.

Avoid Double Comparisons : At first, I did not see the errors in the example given to me:

Wrong	Correct
Diane is the most friendliest person I know.	Diane is the friendliest person I know.

A double comparison occurs when a writer uses both -er or -est and more or most.

d) Your score: