I’m going to use this blog to express how I am still having difficulties in class. This week I was able to understand transitive and intransitive patterns better, but still have a hard time applying them. Even though I can apply them to headlines in the Daily Evergreen, I’m not sure if I would be able to do much more. I can identify a prepositional phrase but I couldn’t honestly tell you what exactly it is. I’m starting to think that I never learned about this because if it had, some sort of memory would have sparked by now. I’m extremely tempted to go out and buy a Grammar for Dummies book. I’m excited for the mini lessons because there are topics that I’m not familiar with at all. Such as: nonrestrictive elements, parallelism and indefinite pronouns. Should be interesting…
I’m not sure what else to mention here. I didn’t feel that I learned a lot this week, especially with the Dora article. I’m hoping the second part of that story is easier to relate to. I don’t want to seem like this week was a total waste of time, because it wasn’t. I think I’m just having a harder time than usual with this.
So my question for the week: does anyone know of a good reference book besides Nitty Gritty or Dummies that would be a good grammar guide?
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Hey Kim, I too struggle immensely with grammar, and I realize we're expected to know it when we teach, so one night, I decided to go on amazon.com and research what resources there are for grammar. I read reviews and looked at ratings for all the stuff on amazon, and everyone seems to like a book called Painless Grammar, by Rebecca Elliott.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the product description, it's "lighthearted, often humorous... transforming details that might have once seemed boring into... interesting."
I actually read a little bit of grammar for dummies, and wasn't terribly interested in it (probably because I'm not that interested in grammar).
I haven't read Painless Grammar, but it sounds like it has a lot of potential.