I had conferences with each student about their evaluation essays: some need a little editing, others need structural revision. I encourage students to use resources like The Bedford Handbook and web sources to refine their knowledge of grammar and apply it to their writing. For example, check out comma splices on The Tongue Untied or on OWL at Purdue. Please try to complete your revisions by Friday's class.
We did a lesson on morphology, starting with watching a clip from the "morphing" sequence in Michael Jackson's "Black or White" video. Morph means "form" in Greek. We focused on the form classes of speech: nouns, verbs, adjective, and adjectives. The handout shows a chart with a sampling of derivational suffixes: suffixes that can be added to a word to change its part of speech. The chart also shows inflectional suffixes: suffixes that change some aspect of the word but do not change its part of speech. For example, adding –ing to a verb changes its tense, but it is still a verb; similarly, adding an –s to a noun makes it plural but doesn’t change its part of speech.
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