Personal Narrative Analysis

English was extremely foreign to me when I first began to learn the English grammar. I could not comprehend what I should write and not write because my use of words did not give the same effect as what I wanted to say. In result, my sentences became run-ons, and I did not know when to stop a sentence and how to start a new one. It may sound really simple considering how I am doing essays now, but in the past, I could not get anything out of my mind. It made my grades take a blow from this disaster, and it looked highly improbable that I would bring it higher than a C. Another addition to my grammar problems is the new words I confronted through the years. I love to read books, and I could not take my attention away from one. It was difficult

My teacher was an angel sent from heaven, and the angel’s name was Mrs. Julia Faulk. She was a very generous and caring woman who was not afraid to put students in their place, but she did everything in her power to help us in English and Reading. Mrs. Faulk would have us read from a workbook because what we read were suffixes, prefixes, and root words. It sounds strange to do these in the mornings because we never did this in elementary, but it was interesting. I began to understand all the little parts that make up a word, and the meanings of those parts gave clues of the definition to the word itself. Mrs. Faulk then showed us how we can use simple words to become clues in order to find the definition of an unknown word, and it helped a lot knowing suffixes, prefixes, and root words. With everything Mrs. Faulk taught me, I utilized what I learned into my reading, and soon I knew every word in the book. The book turned out to be my solution disguised as a problem because it not only helped me learn new words, but it also helped me know how sentences should be written. I thought books were the only thing I loved that can jeopardize my grades, but it actually helped me bring my grades up to a high A. As I continued to read books throughout middle school and most of high