Teach me so I can teach myself... again
I never was terribly good at English. I mean, I was... and I am. But not really.
See, I can more or less write what I think looks correct. I remember in 8th grade, we were learning about tenses. Past tense, future, present, and a slew of subcategories in each that I couldn't remember if my life depended on it. Although, I think there was something about things being active. I seriously have no idea. Someone could lay a sentence in front of me and tell me to identify the seperate components and past noun, verb, etc I would have no idea. I almost got kicked out of advanced English because I just can't keep up with that sort of stuff. See, I know what works. But I don't know WHY it works. I'm glad I didn't have English 101. In 102 we just skipped to writing essays. So easy! Anyway, does that make sense?
If anyone could explain to me what all the sub-parts of past, present, and future are do tell.
In choir, we learned how to read music. Nope. Can't do that either. In fact, even then I never really knew for sure. I kind of just knew if it should be higher or lower than the note before it and followed what the people around me sang or the piano. I have no sense of rythm either. Although, admittedly, that hardly matters because I'm not a great singer anyway. My range is pretty cruddy. When I was in that musical in high school, I learned the song from singing along with the tape. I never REALLY knew the music. That's why I had so much trouble getting the timing just right with the band and piano. In fact, if they didn't decide to have the piano play with me, I probably would have really sucked. (or they would have taken my solo song out)
I don't know where I'm going with this. How is it possible to do something without really knowing what you're doing? I don't know how. I don't know why. Shouldn't there be some sort of foundation?
See, I can more or less write what I think looks correct. I remember in 8th grade, we were learning about tenses. Past tense, future, present, and a slew of subcategories in each that I couldn't remember if my life depended on it. Although, I think there was something about things being active. I seriously have no idea. Someone could lay a sentence in front of me and tell me to identify the seperate components and past noun, verb, etc I would have no idea. I almost got kicked out of advanced English because I just can't keep up with that sort of stuff. See, I know what works. But I don't know WHY it works. I'm glad I didn't have English 101. In 102 we just skipped to writing essays. So easy! Anyway, does that make sense?
If anyone could explain to me what all the sub-parts of past, present, and future are do tell.
In choir, we learned how to read music. Nope. Can't do that either. In fact, even then I never really knew for sure. I kind of just knew if it should be higher or lower than the note before it and followed what the people around me sang or the piano. I have no sense of rythm either. Although, admittedly, that hardly matters because I'm not a great singer anyway. My range is pretty cruddy. When I was in that musical in high school, I learned the song from singing along with the tape. I never REALLY knew the music. That's why I had so much trouble getting the timing just right with the band and piano. In fact, if they didn't decide to have the piano play with me, I probably would have really sucked. (or they would have taken my solo song out)
I don't know where I'm going with this. How is it possible to do something without really knowing what you're doing? I don't know how. I don't know why. Shouldn't there be some sort of foundation?