Saturday, September 13, 2008

The common gammer mistake which i had make in my pervious essay.

The common gammer mistake which i had made in the pervious essay was the usage of tenses at the wrong time. For example, in the essay i wrote " in the past, bread was hand made." Instead of written it as "was hand made", i wrote as "is hand made." I need to take note of the tenses which i have used in the essay. Espically words that has a present tense, past tense, past perfect tense and future tense. There are also words which has a different reading when they are read in the present tense, past tense, past perfect tense and future tense yet their spelling is the same in the four tenses mention above. For example, word like read has the same spelling in the four tenses. Therefore in order not to make the same mistake again, before i even start writing an essay, i need to know whether my essay is talking about an event that has already been taken place or is it happening now. If the event that has already been taken place, most likely words which has a past tense will be use in the essay. If the event that is going to happen now, then most likely the tenses that i will be using in the essay will be present tense. For past perfect tense it will be use in the event which has already taken place before another time in the past. Lastly future tense is use to talk about event that is going to happen in the future. After going through the tenses one last thing which i needed to is to read my essay again to check whether the tenses i had used in the essay are correct to prevent myself from making the same mistake again. The ability to spot the mistake which i had made and correct it will help me to improve on the usage of tenses.

2 comments:

Wang Xiao said...

I think tense is easily ignored in writing, since most of the times we just write on and might forget about this issue. Be careful while you are writing. Perhaps, it might help in correcting this mistake.

Hong En said...

Tenses is one of the easiest mistake to commit in writing an essay. It is a good idea to check before writing whether the points you have listed are supposed to be in present or past tense. Re-reading our essay several times would be useful in overcoming this problem.