Mistakes are inevitable in everything we do. After I have gone through the process of writing the two writing assignment, the various text editing practices and the two graded tests, I could roughly identify some of the weak point of my grammar mastering. First of all, I found that I have trouble identifying grammar errors from the text editing practice articles or test articles in the first place. This does not mean that I do not understand the grammar error or how to correct it but instead; this hinted me that I should and must read the article more carefully in the future. Through the practices and tests, I have found out many errors which I might not have spotted in the first place and this would help me greatly as I would remember them as examples and try my best to spot the errors of the same pattern.
Other then error spotting, I make mistakes sometimes with the need to use base form after certain words such as modals, gerunds or infinitives. Examples would be after the words "could", "does" or "would". I used to have problems with the usage of has, have, had words as I am uncertain when to use the word had. I have a better understanding now after the lecture on that particular topic. Example is that the word "had" should be used when an event happens before another event mentioned in the same sentence. Another simple example would be "I had my breakfast" where it indicates that the event has already taken place and over already.
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Yeah I totally agree with you that making grammatical mistakes does not always mean lack of knowledge. It hints us that we need to concentrate more on it inorder to correct the grammatical mistakes.
ReplyDeleteJust exactly as what you have mentioned, at times I also can point out the errors correctly, but the challenging part is to replace it with the correct word. For that I think we need to be more experienced with reading and writing articles and essays.
I would say the grammar mistakes happen mostly due to the lack in practice rather than anything else. I agree with you the fact that through the practices and test we can improve our grammar usage as well as rectify the common errors that we used to make.
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