One of the most important things I learned this week was a review on compound modifiers. I was never very clear on that topic and reading a little review on it was extremely beneficial. I also found chapter 7, the agreement chapter, to be particularly helpful. As we expand into harder material, I’m finding that I make a few of these mistakes unknowingly. I’ve been known to misplace modifiers and leave the poor things dangling a time or two.
This editing stuff is A LOT more complicated than I ever expected! The “cases” assignment pretty much freaked me out. I can spot the mistakes but I have a really hard time justifying why they need to be changed at all.
Amid all of the complicated vocabulary and countless rules, I am finding myself becoming more editorially analytical on a daily basis. For example, the other day I received a baby shower invitation for my stepsister-in-law and immediately noticed a punctuation error (the case of the missing comma).
Last week I edited an assignment for my group in one of my classes and was able to catch mistakes I know I wouldn’t have caught before. So as overwhelming as it can be to read rules upon rules every week, something must be sticking in this brain of mine!
Compound modifiers have never been very clear to me either. I think that if we just use common sense, most of our sentences will come out correctly.
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