What helped you the most with your spelling and grammar? - Keeping grammer Nazis at bay
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Reading books is how I got along. Simple answer but that's about it.
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Reading books and interestingly enough, forums.
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The most helpful thing for me when it comes to spelling and grammar is reading. A lot of people might not think that reading can help with your spelling and grammar, but it actually does! When you read, you are constantly seeing how words are spelled and used in sentences. This helps your brain to better remember how words are supposed to be spelled, and also gives you a good idea of proper sentence structure. Another helpful tip is to proofread your own work before turning it in or sending it off. This allows you catch any mistakes that you may have made so that they can be fixed before anyone else sees them.
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Video games, probably. Lots of reading involved to learn the game as well as comprehend the plot. The vocabulary used in some games still catches me off guard. The other day I was playing Fire Emblem Three Hopes and a word came up I didn't know so I look it up. The Final Fantasy series is riddled with interesting vocabulary as well as archaic words.
By middle school, my teachers claimed I was allegedly at college reading level, whatever the fuck that means. The United States average reading level, and the reading level most media is designed for, is 8th grade. If you ever wondered why so many young adult/teen novels become movies, now you know.
By middle school, my teachers claimed I was allegedly at college reading level, whatever the fuck that means. The United States average reading level, and the reading level most media is designed for, is 8th grade. If you ever wondered why so many young adult/teen novels become movies, now you know.
My autistic ass will never learn this so long as websites have edit buttons.
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Reading and knowing word roots. If you know that "somnus" is Latin for sleep, you start making important brain connections with "insomnia" or "somnolent". The spelling can get a little off on rare occasion, but knowing how the original pieces of your words are spelled helps when modern English mashes them together.
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Read a lot since I was young. Always enjoyed reading and writing. Never much cared for math though. I've always been terrible at that.
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Think about what you are writing semantically rather than phonetically. "I should of known your retarded" might sound close enough when spoken aloud, but it doesn't make any sense when you take every word for what it really means.
Take the habit of checking if you have any doubt on what you're writing. There's really no excuse for incorrect spellings when you can check in under 10 seconds in another tab.
Take the habit of checking if you have any doubt on what you're writing. There's really no excuse for incorrect spellings when you can check in under 10 seconds in another tab.
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Right, I get the feeling a lot of the sort of overthinkers you're going to find in a place like KF probably just had it happen naturally; they wouldn't be reading and writing on an internet forum if that wasn't the case.
Tbh I used to be proud of shit like SAT scores and whatnot, and then you realize scoring in the top percentiles doesn't mean nearly as much when this is national, meaning there are people from the inner city and the south and whatever else taking this shit who have awful underfunded schools. As such if you go to a good school and still score below 80% of test takers, you probably qualify as functionally retarded.
The department of education says ~19% of high school graduates are functionally illiterate, so what does it even mean to read "at a college level" anymore, you know?
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Learning a foreign language made me think more deeply about how English grammar is constructed. If you grow up speaking idiomatic, fluent English every day, you may be able to reliably hit on the correct grammatical construction because "it sounds right", but you won't understand the logic behind it.