When I think of grammar, the first thought that pops into my head is "say what you mean and mean what you say". Hypothetically speaking, a person who hears grammar automatically goes into a default of punctuation, sentences,and blah blah. When you begin to study things; you should study things more into depth find a common ground and work from there.
Grammar be used for multiple things, such as: professionalism, expression, and clarifications. Think of grammar as your body; you need arms, legs, feet, and the rest of the things to create a functioning human body. Just to name several; grammar consists of capitalization, apostrophes, commas, and subject/verb agreements. Capitalization is used to highlight important people, places, and things (ex: book title). Apostrophe's are used to show possession. Commas are used as transitions. They help to shift the sentence in somewhat a new direction. Comma splices happen when you place commas between fragments or blatantly into random places. Run-on sentences are self-explanatory; they happen when someone continuously carries a conversation and it never has a period of any form of punctuation. Subject/verb agreements, irregular verbs, pronoun/antecedent agreements, pronoun references, pronoun cases, misplaced modifiers, and parallelism: generally have the same rule. They want you make sure your sentences or stories correspond. These subjects are used to make sure all your tenses (present, future, past) match, to make sure number and gender match, and to determine what sounds grammatically correct. In a lot of cases if you read thoroughly and precise, you are able to be aware of your errors. It also helps to read aloud.
Next time you see grammar, don't think about it as blah blah. Think of it as forms of expressions. View as a way to mold your future. You can spend all this time fighting it but embrace it. When you talk to others: you are selling your brand. Do you think if you sound inarticulate and illiterate someone will believe you have a degree?
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ReplyDeleteNice way to highlight grammar as a tool box that helps us to craft our thoughts. I love to craft things so it helps me to think of grammar as another craft. Commas are really neat when you start realizing what patterns of usage they follow and that you can use them subjectively.