Category: E&H Courses

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

Wordplay is a blog project featuring posts from students enrolled in ENG 320 Grammar and Linguistics (Fall 2019) Grammar Across Classrooms: "Braiding Sweetgrass" Matthew Evertson As I have been learning with my students and revisiting so many interesting language lessons this semester in ENG 320, "Grammar and Linguistics" (a discipline that is definitely not my … Continue reading Grammar Across Classrooms: “Braiding Sweetgrass”

Wordplay is a blog project featuring posts from students enrolled in ENG 320 Grammar and Linguistics (Fall 2019) What the Pun! Tara Gentz How does a pirate open an essay? With a hook. Now it is a pretty safe bet to make that majority of readers reading this blog have just experienced an internalized groan of … Continue reading Wordplay: What the Pun!

Wordplay is a blog project featuring posts from students enrolled in ENG 320 Grammar and Linguistics (Fall 2019) Grammar is important! Tacie Lucas Is grammar important? Do we need to know grammar and all the rules to be successful in life? Yes, grammar is important. Grammar is like a backbone to our language. If we … Continue reading Wordplay Blog: Grammar is important!

Wordplay is a blog project featuring posts from students enrolled in ENG 320 Grammar and Linguistics (Fall 2019) 10 Sentence Patterns that Everyone Should Know Katie Strohschein My Spanish teacher once told me that students learn more about the components of a sentence in her class then in our English classes. Now looking back that … Continue reading Wordplay Blog: 10 Sentence Patterns that Everyone Should Know

Wordplay is a blog project featuring posts from students enrolled in ENG 320 Grammar and Linguistics (Fall 2019) English Sucks! by Peyton Flack As a person who has been speaking the English language for 20 some years and as a future teacher, I can confidently say that it sucks! It is confusing, constantly changing, and … Continue reading Wordplay Blog: English Sucks!

Wordplay is a blog project featuring posts from students enrolled in ENG 320 Grammar and Linguistics (Fall 2019) “I Could Care Less” About This Blog by Jessica Whetham There are many common phrases in the English language that are frequently used incorrectly. If you’re anything like me, you cringe and feel the urge to correct … Continue reading Wordplay Blog: “I Could Care Less” About This Blog