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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

Wordplay is a blog project featuring posts from students enrolled in ENG 320 Grammar and Linguistics (Fall 2019) The Dog Days Aren’t Over Ashley Fattig In the last blog, we did cover many of the bad habits that we face as young writers;  however, there are still tons of bad habits that are yet to … Continue reading Wordplay: The Dog Days Aren’t Over