Ah behold the English language

I'm so thankful I have English as a first language! After attending my first tutorial on grammar and the construction of a good sentence I have a new appreciation for trying to learn English as a 2nd language.

As I sat in a 28 degree class room with 15 other people where the air conditioner was not working and and one desk fan struggled in vain to cool us down I tried to remember. Remember back to my school years many years ago when I first learnt this stuff.
The tutor lulled me into a false sense of security with nouns and verbs...I remembered that a noun is a naming word and a verb is a doing word. Then she added in pronouns and adjective, what these were I managed to drag from the back of my dusty old brain without peeking at the handout.

But then she launched into conjunctions, prepositions and articles....OMG. With my highlighter scribbling furiously I learned these again!

Now for page 2 of the handout....Grammatical trouble spots.

I like to think I can handle the comma pretty well....wrong! It seems I am the master of fragment sentences not commas! You know when  Microsoft Word tells you your need to revise your work cause its fragmented, that's all for me it seems.
Well, now, I know better and I'm armed and dangerous.

Did you know that there are lots of different types of sentences...me neither...go figure.
You can get simple, compound, complex or even compound-complex sentences. Phew.
These include clauses or sub ordinate clauses...WTF!
Quick someone throw me a lifeline I think I'm sinking...
Luckily the teacher is a good one and makes it all make sense and gives us back up notes.

But then beware the dangling modifier: this is where you add a second part to the sentence but don't link it too the first part..don't use the words looking, while, without, having to start a sentence, thank goodness for the notes again.

When they said it would be 25 hours per week study I scoffed, maybe now I need to unscoff!

Next week its puncuation, I wonder what delights await me!