Comments on: Be a better writer in 15 minutes: 4 TED-Ed lessons on grammar and word choice https://blog.ed.ted.com/2014/05/29/be-a-better-writer-in-15-minutes-4-ted-ed-lessons-on-grammar-and-word-choice/ Tue, 09 Jan 2018 04:31:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 By: Ana A. Jambrina https://blog.ed.ted.com/2014/05/29/be-a-better-writer-in-15-minutes-4-ted-ed-lessons-on-grammar-and-word-choice/#comment-939390 Ana A. Jambrina Tue, 30 May 2017 23:04:24 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=3465#comment-939390 In my opinion, for stating a clear message, nobody should ever hesitate when using a serial comma.
Nevertheless, these videos are incredibly useful for teaching English grammar; moreover, they are also helpful for understanding your mother tongue grammar.

]]> By: Lucía Encinas https://blog.ed.ted.com/2014/05/29/be-a-better-writer-in-15-minutes-4-ted-ed-lessons-on-grammar-and-word-choice/#comment-938983 Lucía Encinas Wed, 24 May 2017 11:02:54 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=3465#comment-938983 In my opinion, punctuation marks play a very important role in giving meaning to the language. A wrong placement of mark of punctuation can change the meaning of the sentence completely and sometimes even convert the sentence to complete nonsense. Punctuation is one of the most important aspects of written English. However, in most of the cases, it is left aside.

]]> By: Karen Neal https://blog.ed.ted.com/2014/05/29/be-a-better-writer-in-15-minutes-4-ted-ed-lessons-on-grammar-and-word-choice/#comment-923713 Karen Neal Mon, 12 Dec 2016 16:39:06 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=3465#comment-923713 Agree with you.

Couldn’t stop laughing after reading this though, “Bob, a DJ and a clown”. It shouldn’t be this funny.

Very interesting videos. Thanks for sharing!

Karen Neal,
http://www.grammerchecker.org/

]]> By: Shanquana Foster https://blog.ed.ted.com/2014/05/29/be-a-better-writer-in-15-minutes-4-ted-ed-lessons-on-grammar-and-word-choice/#comment-919275 Shanquana Foster Wed, 26 Oct 2016 15:44:54 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=3465#comment-919275 I have been laughing at all these comments. Some were very interesting ,to me. So of the speakers were going to fast.

]]> By: Amber Junaluska https://blog.ed.ted.com/2014/05/29/be-a-better-writer-in-15-minutes-4-ted-ed-lessons-on-grammar-and-word-choice/#comment-918653 Amber Junaluska Thu, 20 Oct 2016 23:30:29 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=3465#comment-918653 The English Lagrange is the hardest thing to understand and know where to put the right grammar, and how to speak proper.

]]> By: Cathie Curran https://blog.ed.ted.com/2014/05/29/be-a-better-writer-in-15-minutes-4-ted-ed-lessons-on-grammar-and-word-choice/#comment-916693 Cathie Curran Tue, 27 Sep 2016 13:57:47 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=3465#comment-916693 and please may i just say: must’ve, would’ve
really?
these are in my children’s (?) english exercise books … am i alone in thinking it’s an abuse of the apostrophe?

]]> By: Cathie Curran https://blog.ed.ted.com/2014/05/29/be-a-better-writer-in-15-minutes-4-ted-ed-lessons-on-grammar-and-word-choice/#comment-916687 Cathie Curran Tue, 27 Sep 2016 12:16:33 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=3465#comment-916687 yes please to firing got and get – especially the ‘have gots’:
i’ve got a dog –
what’s wrong with ‘i have a dog’?
i’ve got to go now – whatever happened to ‘i must go’?

all that aside – these videos are very clever and well made – i’m sure my children will be as entertained as i was, making learning easy… great to see brilliant teaching. thanks -

]]> By: Diana https://blog.ed.ted.com/2014/05/29/be-a-better-writer-in-15-minutes-4-ted-ed-lessons-on-grammar-and-word-choice/#comment-916336 Diana Fri, 23 Sep 2016 10:34:11 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=3465#comment-916336 The best part of this entire post is the comments.

I wasn’t very impressed with the videos, but the comments have had me laughing all the way down the page. Quite entertaining.

]]> By: Prili https://blog.ed.ted.com/2014/05/29/be-a-better-writer-in-15-minutes-4-ted-ed-lessons-on-grammar-and-word-choice/#comment-913887 Prili Thu, 25 Aug 2016 17:20:35 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=3465#comment-913887 As non-English native speaker, I find these lessons quite helpful. But I think the writers / teachers / whoever post / made this should warned the readers / audience that these lessons are those with advanced English understanding. As someone with IELTS 7.5, I found the speakers in the video sometimes speak too fast or use some difficult vocabularies. Eventhough the video is entertaining and somewhat funny, the analogy or advanced vocabularies used in the video make it harder to grasp by people whose English is not in advanced level like me.
But thanks for this! It really give me new insights!

]]> By: Adam https://blog.ed.ted.com/2014/05/29/be-a-better-writer-in-15-minutes-4-ted-ed-lessons-on-grammar-and-word-choice/#comment-907268 Adam Tue, 24 May 2016 05:21:18 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=3465#comment-907268 One of my main concerns when writing on the web these days is to take into account the large numbers of non native English speakers and readers who will be reading what I write. I won’t simplify my writing for that purpose, though it is always a consideration.

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