(Second chance) Learning express Library- course 1

Grammar Skills for Writing 1: Punctuation in Sentences

1- Interest level

Grammar skills #1 interested me because I think we neglect our grammar in CEGEP when we write because we take it for granted. This course was about ponctuation rule and how to use each sign properly. This course also gave tricks to avoid common mistakes using ponctuation signs.

2- Difficulty

Level 1, 2, and 3 were much easier than the rest of the course. I only had to choose the sentence that was written corectly between the two choices offered. Most of the time, the error was obvious. In the two last levels, the exercises were longer and arduous. I had to analyse run-un sentences and fragments. Such exercices were new to me so it destabilized me sometimes. It was also difficult because I had to correct common errors that we do when we use the comma and it is one of my weakness in English.

3- What I learned (3 things)

First of all, I learned that we have to put a period at the end of a sentence that asks an indirect sentence. I thought we had to put a question mark because I sometimes transpose French rules to English even if these two langages are very separate.

Second, I learned that we have to put a question mark at the end of words that asks a question even if it is not a complete sentence.

Finally, I learned a lot about how to separate sentences properly, but I believe more exercises are needed to unterstand all possible cases.

4- My score

My score was higher than what I had expected. I got 90%. I don't think I understood everything perfectly, but my guesses were often good.

5- Course rating

On the one hand, all the information I have learned in the course was relevent. I think we overestimate our knowledge in grammar because I really learned new things about capitalization and ponctuation even if I am in CEGEP 2. On the other hand, the course was too long. Grammar is not a subject that captures my attention for more than one hour but this lesson took me more than two hours. I should look twice at the time estimate that they give in the course description next time I do a LEL.