Sunday, September 21, 2008
W5T2-My grammar mistakes
No matter how good you are at English writing, you may still make some kinds of mistakes, such as grammar mistakes or vocabulary mistakes. As English is not my native language, I always meet some grammar mistakes in my English writing. Looking at some articles I wrote before, the most mistakes in my article is about sentence structure. The reason why I often make this mistake is that English sentence structure is very different from Chinese sentence structure. Therefore, I always write English sentence in Chinese sentence structure. Firstly, I always use “there have/has” instead of “there be” sentence structure. For example, when I want to express that there is a river flowing in front of my house, instead I may write as this way, “there has a river flowing in front of my house.” Another problem is about the object clause. If the object clause is an asking sentence, the object clause should be in stating form; however, I usually use asking form. For example, if sentence should be “Can you tell me where you are from?” probably, I will write “Can you tell me where are from?” Some similar mistakes happen frequently in my English writing, if I do not pay much attention when writing. Secondly, I like use coordinating conjunctions together, because in Chinese they always come together. For example, in my writing, “although” and “but” come together, “because” and “so” come together. I am used to applying language in Chinese way. It is difficult to change this habit. But if I want to improve my English, it is necessary to think in English way.
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Dear Mengzhao
I see your effort in the eportfolio. But do rememeber to be complete. The grammar post should include some short exercises for your friends to try. Secondly, you should attach your mid-term reflection. Well, there's time to catch up. All the best!
I believe these problems are caused by your speaking habit. Maybe u just need to listen more and speak more. While writing a sentence, u can feel the sentence reading out in ur mind, not just u come up with some words and form a sentence by following grammar.
Good try!
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