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Wordplay is a blog project featuring posts from students enrolled in ENG 320 Grammar and Linguistics (Fall 2019) Texting vs. Literacy by Madison Franklin How many texts do you suppose you send out a day? When you are out in public, how many people do you see texting or on their phones? I am not an … Continue reading Wordplay: Texting vs. Literacy

Wordplay is a blog project featuring posts from students enrolled in ENG 320 Grammar and Linguistics (Fall 2019) Normal Abbreviations or Texting Abbreviations: What’s the Big Deal? Katie Strohschein In today’s society it seems like all the children I see have a phone in their hands, and these children are interacting with others in some … Continue reading Wordplay: Normal Abbreviations or Texting Abbreviations

Wordplay is a blog project featuring posts from students enrolled in ENG 320 Grammar and Linguistics (Fall 2019) Language and the Thought Process by Peyton Flack Have you ever wondered how language affects our thoughts? Are our thoughts limited to the words we know in our language? What language do bilingual people think in? Can … Continue reading Wordplay: Language and the Thought Process

Wordplay is a blog project featuring posts from students enrolled in ENG 320 Grammar and Linguistics (Fall 2019) Oxford Comma Use for All by Mattie Duzik Using a comma is a very important little piece of punctuation. A comma is that tiny pause we hear and take when speaking or reading.  Commas break up clauses, … Continue reading Wordplay: Oxford Comma Use for All

Wordplay is a blog project featuring posts from students enrolled in ENG 320 Grammar and Linguistics (Fall 2019) The Mystery of Learning Language by Maddison Cox Have you ever thought about how children really learn to speak? When children are born, they are immediately exposed to all kinds of sounds that they have never heard … Continue reading Wordplay: The Mystery of Learning Language

Wordplay is a blog project featuring posts from students enrolled in ENG 320 Grammar and Linguistics (Fall 2019) Grammar Instruction in the Classroom by Shauna Coburn Have you ever thought about the grammar instruction you were given as a child? Were you taught countless rules that you could never remember, or were you taught simply … Continue reading Wordplay: Grammar Instruction in the Classroom

Wordplay is a blog project featuring posts from students enrolled in ENG 320 Grammar and Linguistics (Fall 2019) “Rules” of Grammar by Riley Hall When you hear the word “grammar” you probably think of time consuming lessons from elementary school or trying to memorize the “rules” of grammar that past teachers lived by. These rules … Continue reading Wordplay: “ “Rules” of Grammar

Wordplay is a blog project featuring posts from students enrolled in ENG 320 Grammar and Linguistics (Fall 2019) Good, Gooder, Goodest by Madilyn Barraza I am not usually one to care about the use of incorrect grammar.  I hang around kids between the ages of 3-5 all day; it is expected that they speak with … Continue reading Wordplay Blog: Good, Gooder, Goodest

Wordplay is a blog project featuring posts from students enrolled in ENG 320 Grammar and Linguistics (Fall 2019) To Sentence Diagram or not to Sentence Diagram? Shawna Turner The sentence on my English test reads, “It was a nice, sunny, happy day in the middle school when suddenly a storm cloud blocked the sun.” The … Continue reading Wordplay: To Sentence Diagram or not to Sentence Diagram?

Wordplay is a blog project featuring posts from students enrolled in ENG 320 Grammar and Linguistics (Fall 2019) Our changing language  Brooke Kuehn Our language is constantly evolving. Have you ever thought about how different our language is from the way it was 100 years ago? The way we say certain words or even the … Continue reading Wordplay: Our changing language