Grammar RULES!

Quiz 2 – Grammar Rules

a. Read Chapter 2 of Hicks, English for Journalists (Grammar Rules) to prepare for this quiz.
b. Complete the quiz so that you get 100% correct
(you will be able to make numerous attempts).
c. Reflect on this briefly on your blog – Did you find the questions difficult? Did you have any problems in specific areas?

Grammar RULES!  Or is that Grammar rules?

In addition to reading chapter 2 of Hicks, "English for Journalists", chapter 5 of Whitaker, Ramsay & Smith "Basics of Writing and Editing Media Writing", I also read chapter 4, Bainbridge, "Media & Journalism, New approaches to Theory and practice", so I felt I went into the quiz well-armed.

Nope.  I still managed to get a few wrong.  One was because I didn't read the question correctly and another because, well, my understanding of what a word is may need some more work (Ames, K., 2014a).

Question 7 Ames, (2014a), caused me to stumble.  With this question, I understood that one word sentences could be a taken as a noun or a verb, therefore qualifying them as a complete sentence.  The words given as examples in the book are:

Agreed.

Indeed (Hicks W, 2013 p. 23).

But what the question was really asking, was does a sentence need more than one word to satisfy the requirement of being a sentence.  To that I would have answered no.

I have re-read the parts that still need work however, I believe both books used in this course, and my journalism books  will be ones that stay with me throughout my career.  Don’t look for them in the used book section of the Student Association; they won’t be for sale any time soon.

REFERENCES

Ames, K., 2014a. Quiz 2: Grammar: the rules, Course notes, COMM 11007 Media Writing: CQUniversity e-courses, http://moodle.cqu.edu.au/.

Ames, K., 2014b. Module 2: media writing as a product , Course notes, COMM 11007 Media Writing: CQUniversity e-courses, http://moodle.cqu.edu.au/.

Hicks, W., 2013. English for journalists. 4th ed. New York: Routledge.