Woe is I Jr. (questioning)
March24
- Patricia T, O’Conner writes about the use of will and would. She tries to interpret what Emeril said. “One day, Emeril said he will make creole flapjacks for breakfast. Another day he said he would make creole for breakfast.” I wonder why the first sentence is wrong even though it sounds good and makes sense.
- The author writes about the use of If in complex sentences. She states that “when the if side is in the present tense, [ people] need to write by using will on the other side to make a balance.” For instance, if I know the rule of if, I will write as the queen of England. In addition she say “when the if side (dependent clause) in the past tense,[ the other can be written by the] use of would.” I am confused about the past tense rule of if. For example’ if I went to a English school system, I now have no problem in my English class. The dependent clause of my example is about the past, assuming that I went to school where scholars study in English. I use present in the independent clause because today I have some difficulties in English.
- Comma plays many roles in a sentence; it can be place in the beginning, middle, and the end of a sentence. It is important in a sentence because “it organizes words in much the same way that the yellow light keeps traffic moving in an orderly fashion.” If comma organized words, why do people not have problem to speak?
- Patricia talk about semicolon ; she refers it to “a flash red light that helps people to drive through after a brief pause”, which means that it is stronger that comma and used when period is unnecessary needed.
- I always have problem in the use of colon. Patricia, the author of Woe is I Jr. states : “ it is an abrupt stop that’s almost like a period. A colon makes people hit the before it introduces something else.” In addition, it has opposite role as comma; it introduces a long quotation while comma introduces a sentence in a quote. I wonder why I comma and colon both introduce quotation.
- We usually use quotation marks in sentences, but we do not exactly know what they represent or what they give to our sentences. According to Patricia, she refers to them as: “ the road signs when people enter and leave a city. Just as the signs define the city limits, quotation marks show where speech begins and ends.” If Patricia says that “quotation marks show where speech begins and ends,” why will we not end a sentence with a quotation mark?