ENG 1124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Waterspout, Infinitive, Anorexia Nervosa
5 Apr 2016
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English 1100 grammar lecture: (we will cover the four main areas that cause writers grief, and confuse/ irritate readers: punctuation errors, pronoun problems, Almost all of you make mistakes with punctuation: tiny errors that kill your writing. My notes below are designed to help rid your writing of these mistakes once and for all. Some of the examples are generic, others make reference to jennifer wood"s article, don"t you forget. A tiny bit of backstory: the need for punctuation arose in the west starting around 1100 when more and more people started to read silently. Before this time, a very large majority of people could not read, but were read aloud to (usually some religious text), and those reading to them knew where to insert the necessary pauses. Which is what are punctuation marks are for: to mark the places where a reader needs to slow. Down to communicate either the end of a sentence, or its complication through phrases.
