I wrote a personal narrative about a memorable experience I had in high school. My peers reviewed it and I review it for errors. The following essay will explain the errors that were found in the personal narrative I wrote. In order to make this grammatical analysis easier to understand, I am going to break it down into five error categories: morphological errors, lexical errors, syntactic errors, mechanical errors, and stylistic choice errors. 1. Morphological Errors: Morphological errors are errors that occur with verb tense, subject-verb agreement, determiners, and noun endings. This narrative had two morphological errors. The first example, “Our band director had assigned me to a room with four other color guard members.” Changing “had assigned” to “assigned” would correct this morphological error. The second example, “They had rented a hall and provided a banquet-style feast for all of the band and color guard members.” Changing “had rented” to “rented” would correct this morphological error. 2. Lexical Errors: Lexical errors are errors that occur with word choice, word form, informal usage, idiom error, or pronoun error. This narrative had one true lexical error. The lexical error that was found was, “It was thrilling seeing all of the people and cameras.” If “seeing all” was changed to “to see” the sentence would sound better to the reader. 3. Syntactic Errors: Syntactic errors are errors that occur with sentence structure such as; run-on sentences, fragments, or comma splices. This narrative had seven syntactic errors, most of which were run-on sentences that need an addition of a comma. The first example, “Once we all settled in we drove for 16 hours stopping three or four times on the way.” The addition... ... middle of paper ... ...in both of these sentences provided organization within the narrative and lead to a greater understanding of the sentences for the reader. The use of transitional prepositional phrases also allowed for ease in reading the narrative. An example of this, “Once there, we checked into our hotel.” In this sentence, “once there” transitions the reader into the sentence adding stylistic flow to the narrative. In conclusion, errors were made in this personal narrative. It seems as though syntactic errors are my downfall. I tend to have errors with comma placement in sentences. I do feel that these errors are usually caught when proper editing is done prior to finalizing a draft. Analyzing your own work for grammatical errors is never an easy task; peer review is always a good idea before turning in a final product, as some errors may not seem like errors to the author.
The ELL made a few common syntax errors; such as, dysfunctional phrases based on position of the word while combining the sentence with a question.
This will impact his reading if this does not get fixed because he will always put a word to fill in the spot. This will also change the meaning of the sentence, they will have misinformation on what is going on in the story because the miscue altered the entire sentence.
Although conservative grammar abides by correctness, linguists say that errors often repeated are no longer errors. According to linguists, common errors are only considered to be incorrect by grammarians. As a results, linguists also claim that however people chose to speak should be considered correct with no regard for set standards. However, rules should not be thrown out just because evidence exists that they are being broken. Commonly broken rules do have the power to change language, especially by changing the meanings of words, but such errors should not make rules of grammar null and void. Without rules, communication would disintegrate, making this argument by linguists harmful to the purpose of
Many times, when an author writes a story, he will use different techniques to influence the way that the reader absorbs the work. Writers use both paratactic style and syntactic style. These two styles contrast each other greatly, but on the same term, they greatly compliment one another. In the book The Things They Carried, O'Brien uses both of these styles. In this essay, syntactic and paratactic style will be examined in the story "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong". Examples in the story will be examined and described according to the two styles of writing. The syntactic style will be focused on more intensely however, because of the way that it effects the sections of the story that will be discussed. It will also show that the historical context of the story effects the styles of writing.
In the following stories, the run-on sentences are still prevalent but they are not as abundant as the first. This slows the stories down; however, the run-ons provide us with the same bursts of description, action and thought. We feel connected, as if we are watching everything happen over the characters’ shoulders. One of my favorite stories in the collection, Dishes, has this balance. The balance, though, makes the run-ons jump out because readers are not as used to them. On page 26 the story opens with the first paragraph in four sentences. These sentences set-up the scene for us in a common structure. In other words, the sentences are all grammatically correct. They have a clear beginning, middle and end and have nouns, prepositions and verbs in all the common places. I
Williams claims that errors of grammar and usage are the most complex topics, which have been easily misunderstood by many people in our world today. Whether the grammar has to do specifically with literature or not, it has always obtained errors. William notably supports his claim by giving specific examples of professionals who have stated grammatical errors according to what they think is “right.” William also provided some personal experience and textual evidence to express credibility and accuracy of his argument. William’s argument is effective because the main points he focused on with evidence were powerful and stood out to the audience. The real life examples that William demonstrated to the audience gave a strong base to his argument because he showed how grammar errors actually exist in our society. He made it evident that the audience had their eyes opened to topic that had been ignored in the past. William achieved his argument by providing real life situations and by looking at various researches that analyzed the existence of errors in grammar. However, the ways that William could have made his argument more effective is by not having comments that seemed too self- indulgencing. Also he could have taken out evidence like the graphs that didn’t make
Pilkington, Andrew CDT I4 CO 16’ Assistance was given to me in fixing my grammatical errors. CDT Pilkington looked over my paper, fixing grammatical mistakes. When he was done, we discussed what was not clear and I fixed those errors within my paper. West Point, NY. 23 March. 2014.
Significant spelling, grammatical, punctuation, and/or capitalization errors were noted and/or APA was not followed closely.
Throughout this semester I have learned many ways of writing through two main essays literacy narrative and comparison and contrast. These two essays have taught me how to correctly fix my comma splices, thesis statements, and capitalization. I have engaged in numerous learning material during this summer class. Many times when I thought it would be hard to work on those three developments I never gave up. I gain more positive feedback from my teacher because he pointed out most of my mistakes I made on both literacy narrative and comparison and contrast essays to help me understand what is it that I need to work on. My development as a writer became stronger.
In the short story, “The Cask of Amontillado,” Edgar Allen Poe includes syntax throughout the story. The author’s purpose of incorporating syntax within a story is to attract attention to specific parts of the story that might be a sign of foreshadowing or symbolism. In addition, a writer will include syntax to catch the reader’s eye of significant ideas like a theme of the story. As an example, in paragraphs 8-12, Poe incorporates the use of specific punctuation
The letter to the Editor was a pretty difficult assignment for me because I had a 150 word limit. With so few words to work with, I had to put my focus on cutting out as many words as I can while keeping my ideas clear. Unfortunately this led to some grammatical mistakes. Even if I did stay focused on my grammar, I would probably still have made the mistakes with...
Gathering myself with all my work, and all the grammatical errors that cross through each page; I realized that those were simple mistakes that everyone creates. Surely I am a victim to myself; I leave most of my work unreformed in its pitiful expression, and not willing to change it. Each essay typed out, and sent was an extension of me; When the essays were handed back I did not welcome them with open eyes. My report “Samhain Celtic Festival,” is misinformed about what I know about it, and what information I took to explain it. My summary for “Just One More Game…” is misinterpreted, and lacks true focus on what actually needs to be summarized. I value my education, but what I did not include was how I was going to keep it all together.
Cerjak ,The English Journal, Vol. 76, No. 5 (Sep., 1987), pp. 55-57 Published by: National Council of Teachers of English
As a three-interrelated concept associated with the grammatical ‘verb’ form, ‘tense’, ‘aspect’, and ‘mood’ play important roles in narrative fiction in general, and in POV/focalization and speech and thought representation, in particular. If we take narrative as ‘the successive events that happen in time’, then what makes the events ‘happen in time’ is what but ‘tense’. In the English and Persian languages, tense can be divided into the three categories, given the present moment as deictic center: present, past, and future; the present time means co-temporality of the time of the situation and the present moment; the past time means the location of the situation prior to the present moment; and the future time means the location of the situation
The transition between high school writing and college writing marked a difficult time for me. In high school, I never had the motivation required to develop my writing skills and writing essays was not my forte. I would express my jumbled thoughts on a paper and turn them in for a decent grade. Upon coming into English 1101 with this lax mindset, I immediately encountered many weaknesses in my writing, struggling with constructing an essay with a proper direction, style and grammar. As I began reviewing my problems, I started understanding these issues and eventually learned to improve upon them. From my portfolio, I hope to demonstrate my improvement upon these weaknesses in English 1101.