Verbs

I was reading the long, drawn out explanations of verbs in the Parrott book. It made me reconsider my original simple definition of a verb: an action word. But that definition does not give a verb justice. There are many types of verbs and many forms and many uses. It is not fair to say that verbs exist in a sentence in order to express action. I like the quote written in Anderson's book,

"The verb is the heartthrob of the sentence. Without a verb, a group of words can never hope to be anything more than a fragment, a hopelessly incomplete sentence, a eunuch or dummy of a grammatical expression."

In reference to modal verbs, I was trying to make a comparison of modal verbs in English with those of Spanish and Italian. In the Latin-based languages I mentioned would the modal verbs be "dober / dovere" (to have to)"poder / potere" (to be able to) and "querer / volere" (to want to)?

September 23

What a relief it was to read this book as opposed to the Parrott! I found myself not skimming and wanting to read each word on the pages. Even after reading everything I felt like I got through the pages quicker than when I skim through the Parrott.

There were many activities in Anderson's book that I would like to commit to memory. For instance,the pronoun activity on page 105. It may be because I am a visual learner, but I like the idea of circling pronouns and connecting them to their antecednts; after all the were made for each other.

I have to give the Parrott book credit, however. As boring as it may be, it is far more thorough making me be more conscious of my grammar. For example, after just typing the comparative in the previous sentence I feel the urge to open up to the section in the chapter that explained the usage of far and by far.

I am noticing that I am almost nervous writing in the blog in fear of grammatical errors. I hope this class will help with the this newly developed fear and I hope it improves my grammar.

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