Connect Extra Credit

Subject Verb Agreement:

This particular assignment was a good refresher of basic grammar that I learned many years ago in elementary school. Because of my hastiness, instead of earning 100% awareness in knowing the answer, I missed a few relatively easy questions. I find this particular assignment to not be very helpful because most of the exercises that were given were merely quick problems that did not require much thought in thinking which verb belonged to the subject of the sentence. Most of them had the same pattern over and over again, although this is understandably the whole point of the exercise. The question was always asking whether a plural or singular subject matched with the following plural or singular verb. Since this was more of scouting for the correct verb to fit in the puzzle, I did not gain any learning experience from this one exercise.

Apostrophes

This exercise was much more useful to me. I received a lower score than average of 71% for being aware of the correct answer, demonstrating that I had more struggles in this category. This was more helpful because I kept missing the questions that had more than one subject in the question and I was requried to identify the apostrophe that belonged with each subject. I learned that if the two subjects have a collective possession, then only the last person's name must have an apostrophe. Otherwise, if each subject did not have a collective possession, an apostrophe was required for both names.

Coordination & Subordination

This exercise was fairly easy for me, as indicated by the 94% on the being "aware that you knew the answer potion." This exercise involved combining short phrases and sentences together in a more succinct sentence that didn't require much punctuation and instead used conjunctions or semicolons. The exercise, although easy, was very useful because it helped me fix my own sentences in the advocacy project to give more variety and more of a professional tone because I was able to incorporate a multitude of sentences into my essay. Overall, this was very useful.

Adjectives and Adverbs

In this exercise, I also did fairly well, earning a total of 88% on the being aware that I knew the answer. This exercise mainly involved matching the correct adjective and adverbs for each sentence. I found this to be not particularly useful either because this is a pretty elementary skill. I was also again rather hasty in completing this simple exercise as the percentage incorrect is rather high for an easy exercise.