One Thing... from Class April 22, 2014

 

 

                With classes coming close to an end, there is only a limited amount of material we could learn in one day. Last class we took a quiz and re-visited the words we started the first day of class with. Words such as effect and affect; you're and your; two, to, and too; and quite a few other ones. Learning those words on the first day of class really helped with understanding the difference between a couple. I never really understood the difference between effect and affect because I thought almost they could be used simultaneously, since I was never corrected on their usage before, and I definitely have always had troubles with lay and lie. I learned those back in probably ninth grade of high school and still can't really tell the difference between them. However, during the quiz it hit me that I did understand the differences finally without really noticing. You lay something down, and people or animals lie down on their own. I actually saw online once about Eric Clapton's song, lay down Sally. It is grammatically incorrect because it is telling someone else to lay Sally down. If he wanted her to lie down on her own, he'd say lie down Sally. It's just a silly mistake and you can't really judge based off of that, but how easy it is to mistake these words really can be troublesome. However, it really helped me remember the correct way of using the two, one's physical in the self, and the other is physical in someone elses doing so to the object.