The entry for the week is to identify common grammatical mistakes that I commit in my essays and comprehensions. Reviewing upon draft 2 of writing assignment 2 and past exercises, I have identified grammatical mistakes that I tend to commit occasionally. Such mistakes include wrong verb tenses, misuse of articles and the semicolon.
Common verb tenses mistakes that I commit are with has, had and have. For example, “… the Singapore government had set aside incentives for industries…” is wrong, and should be corrected to “… the Singapore government have set aside incentives for industries…” since the event happened and is still ongoing, present perfect tense ‘have’ should be used.
In my writing assignment 2, I frequently make article mistakes such as, “… not only for ourselves but also to gain the support of the Asian countries as well.” Should be corrected to, “… not only for ourselves but also to gain the support of Asian countries as well.” since ‘Asian’ is a proper noun and does not require ‘the’. Another article mistake is, “…industries in Singapore would be open to any future expansion plans into the market as …” should be corrected to “…industries in Singapore would be open to any future expansion plans into the global market as …” with the use of ‘global’.
Finally, I have made several mistakes before with the use of the semi colon. The semi colon ‘;’ can be used at the end of a sentence if the following sentence have a similar meaning to it. A simple example such as “He did not go out today; it was raining since morning.” shows how a semi colon can be used for similar sentences. A mistake I made in the sentence, “…the Singapore government have set aside incentives for industries willing to convert to energy efficient equipment; up to 50% capital expenditures.” Should be changed to, “…set aside incentives for industries; up to 50% capital expenditures.”
This are the few mistakes that I tend to make, but I believe I may have made others as well. However, it may take several practices more before I can improve upon all the mistakes I have made since improving on one’s language is not about memorizing formulas but of frequent practice and usage.
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I like the way you gave good and clear examples and where you're mistakes were. In the last paragraph I think it should be "These" instead of "this" since you are referring to 3 mistakes and not one.
ReplyDeleteThe way you talked about your mistakes and corrected them is quite detailed. One point though, which is a bit vague is the sentence “… the Singapore government had set aside incentives for industries…” This could be true if the government used to set incentives aside in the past, you could also use has if the government set aside incentives in the past and is still setting them aside, this is just my opinion and I may not be correct. Overall I found you put a lot of detail into correcting your mistakes which is really good.
ReplyDelete"Improving on one’s language is not about memorizing formulas but of frequent practice and usage". This is very true. Learning language is more like a art than a science. Maybe you can have some spacing in between your lines as readers may have to strain their eye to read.
ReplyDeleteI like the way how you link and identify your common grammar mistakes through your EG1471 writing assignments.Learning english has no shortcut but to practise practise and more practise.
ReplyDeleteI like your writing style because you always support your reasoning with many good examples.
ReplyDeleteOne method to improve English is to listen to news and read a lot of news everyday.