An Everyday Problem

Hi, folks. I want to remind you that "everyday" is an adjective, not an adverb. Here's a quote from one student's blog:

I hope I can see and chat with them everyday.

That should be, "I wish I could see them and chat with them every day." This is because "see" is not a transitive verb, but "chat with" is a transitive verb phrase; the "with" doesn't go with both verbs, only with one of them, so they need to be separated. Also, the "everyday" is fixed, changed to "every day" as it should be.

By 4/23 (yesterday), everyone should have had 24 blog entries--eight full weeks. Sadly, most students did not keep up with that schedule of 3 blog posts per week by the end of their first grading periods, so that cost them many points. Please keep up.

I still see lots and lots of errors in your blogs, though fewer than at first. Take care to avoid comma splices, and please also use the correct word forms; don't use a noun when the sentence calls for an adjective, for instance.

Everyone needs to get going on the mid-term assignment, due at the beginning of class next week--see the Yuntech homepage.
They must be free of grammar errors to pass. Please, go beyond elementary-school level grammar errors and start writing like college students, if you aren't doing so already. I would be ashamed to let anybody pass this class who cannot do that, and I'm not willing to do that or feel that way. Boost yourselves up and get ready to be high level English writers. I am aware that you studied essays and paragraphs and stuff last semester, but unfortunately the class seems to have had but little effect on your writing, so we're stuck in first gear till you can show me you can write even a basic paragraph without childish errors. Sorry to scold, but being an English major means that you are ABLE to use English at near-professional levels already. Some students in DAFL are not even near middle school levels!

Nobody got any bonus points for the Shakespeare's birthday bonus opportunity! Why not??
Chris

Funny Or Die: The Landlord » Gwarm

Funny Or Die: The Landlord » Gwarm

I don't know how they did this, but it's great to find someone who can understand this kind of talk. Was she trained, or what? Impressive attempt. Let's try something longer next. . .the next Star Trek movie, perhaps.

Do not attempt to write like this! Bushisms come to the Paperhood

I am now including a quote (which will change each time you reload the page) by temporary leader of the USA, George W. Bush, former cheerleader and brander for the "ΔΚΕ" fraternity. I do so in order to give you access to a mind that cannot use English at reasonably proficient "native speaker" levels (he grew up in Texas, a place stereotyped as one of many areas of the USA where standard English is not always heard) and you can practice analysis of bad English so that you can become better at self-editing. The quotes are found in the left-hand column of this blog.
I don't have an opinion about how intelligent he actually is (I'm lying), but at any rate his poor speaking skills give him the appearance of a dolt.
This is most unfortunate, as the President is, to a large extent, the "packaging" of a country for the time he's in office, and he is doing little to improve the nation's prestige, at least as far as his public speaking record goes.
Anyhow, I hope these quotes will both amuse and instruct you! For bonus points any time, just respond to this message or send me email that includes the quote and your interpretation of what's wrong with it--what he meant to say, and what his actual quote means (not all quotes will be quite suitable for this treatment; he just spouts utter nonsense sometimes).
Chris

New Google Service!

For your information, I'll mention this free new service from Google. I hope everything will come out all right for this new and exciting "underground" project.

Gratefulness

Hey there students,
Just wanted to thank you for being so good about checking your homepage at Yuntech. Check out the counter at the bottom of the page! Whoa!
Sincerely,
Chris

New Bonus Opportunity for Shakespeare's Birthday!

Check out my homepage's calendar to make sure when the birthday is. . . . . hee hee!

There is an amazing array of sort-of dumb stuff available here at a fellow Blogspot blog. I used the most recent post to create one of my own .

Now it's your turn! Find one of the generators that creates a picture with text of your own for bonus points. Make it clever and creative--funny if you can. Have fun. Make more than one. See which ones are your faves.

1. When you have done it, please first post your creation on your own blog.
   
2. Then comment on this post and include YOUR post's web address so I can find it quickly and easily.
   

• I want to choose the best 5 creations--you can enter this as often as you wish, though I know you don't have unlimited time for this foolishness.

Of course, any bad English will disqualify your entry, unless it's bad for a Reason.
So anyway, my dear students. . .have at thee! I hope you enjoy this.


Chris