Grammar Online Week 2: PowerPoint presentations on sentences and clause structures

- Effectiveness of practice: (describe here what you have learned)

For week 2, we did a grammar Guide to understanding Grammar and Writing skills. These guides are made available with PowerPoint slides for easy illustration and appreciation. I focused on two weak areas – run on sentences and diagramming sentences.
For run on sentences, the writer gave a good analogy of by associating an independent clause as an independently operated train headed west and getting connected to another train headed east as well. According to the writer, three scenarios could happened which resulted in a run on sentences. Personally, these run on traps could be freed with proper understanding of the context of the sentence. To avoid run out sentences, three things could be done. Firstly, we could insert a period and start a new sentence. Secondly, we can insert a comma plus a coordinating conjunction. Lastly, we can use a semicolon.
On the other hand, diagramming sentence provides a way of illustrating the sentence structure. Although the way the writer explained it in the slides are quite confusing with the introduction of slanted and vertical lines. I think the gist of the whole slides is to understand the entire sentence and view it in its simplest form. The simplest form is basically the subject-verb-predicate relationship.

- Additional grammar work done in the area

Personally, I think the notes that were given to us adequate in covering sentence and clause structures. In these PowerPoint slides given, these grammatical understanding are being illustrated in great detail and examples are shown to perpetuate understanding and appreciation.