Jasmine Cheatham

10/9/14

Style: Lesson 2

This lesson is talking about correctness. The “correctness” or flow of your sentence dictates a clearer and direct understanding. In class we had corrected those sentences on a handout and how the order of a sentence makes a difference in the subject that you are discussing. I liked how this lesson discussed what is considered Standard English and the rules that come with that and the change that has occurred with Standard English. In elementary school some teachers would teach us to use words like “ain’t” while some preferred words like are not.  Teachers teach how they were taught and I just found it interesting how this comes into play with teaching styles. This lesson definitely helped me with grammatical issues that I have come across and explained the reasoning they are errors. In most cases teacher will tell you that you need to change the word or structure without explaining why. 

Question: What are double negatives?