"Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say having double meaning." (Rosenstock-Huessy). As what Rosenstock-Huessy said, grammar should be helping us to make our writing understandable. Unfortunately, using a correct grammar is not easy. While using it correctly will help the reader, misused of it will confuse them even more.
I did a lot of grammar mistakes before, knowingly or unknowingly. From what I discovered, most of them are related to plural-singular rules. This contributes to around 50% of the mistakes I made.
There are two reasons why I find it is hard to master this area. Firstly, the nature of my mother tongue does not have anything to do with singular or plural. The other reason is the complexity of rules in it.
I have spoken a language which does not add any ‘s’ or ‘es’ for a plural word. Therefore, I never need to be worried whether I am speaking about one or two or even infinite number of things, neither do I need to be worried of the countable or uncountable rules. This is why I cannot naturally tell whether something is plural or singular.
In addition, there are a lot of guidelines determine whether something is singular or plural. There is the countable and uncountable rule, where uncountable nouns will be considered as a singular thing. I get confused when it comes to words that can be both depending on the context, such as “work”. Another rule that annoys me is the negative form rules. “I do not have any book.” Or “ I do not have any books.” Until now, I cannot tell the difference.
In conclusion, one of grammar problem I am facing is plural-singular problem. The only way I can overcome it might be to keep practicing, so I will become more familiar with it.
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Well done! according to my own judgement, you have a rather good writing. You know to use the quotation to support your idea and hence, result to a quite attractive introductory paragraph.There are very few grammar mistakes and it's not remakable , I think so. You also use transition signals approriately. I just have a small suggestion to your writing that you should separate the two ideas about the reasons into two paragraph accordingly. This will make your writing has a better-organised and unity.
About the content, I think you should give more concerns about how to fix the mistakes. I think the solutions is far more important than the reasons.
you have done a really good job with your essay. surely, you are strong in vocabulary, the use of tenses, and transitional word. there are two thing i like about your writing, firstly, the quotation which is very related to the topic and secondly, the uses of transitional word, such as while, neither do i ,...etc, are very good. therefore, i think your paragraph have unity and your reasons are also reasonable. unfortunately you did not explain how your grammar structure should be used correctly; also, you did not provide the answer for the question whether it is book or books. nevermind, your writing looks decent already.
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