Yup. That's exactly what it was. Last week, it was finally time for our first English session. We were supposed to finish one exercise of sentence correction. I was thinking, I write and anchor in English for a living and I read a fair amount, so it shouldn't be all that bad. Atleast better than Math, scope for feeling like a total retard was a tad lesser today. And then slap! Forget remembering parts of speech or clauses or anything else, I realised that extent of my bad english. The way we speak, may not necessarily be grammatically correct. As long you get the idea, I think ...am good.
While the obvious sentence mistakes were obviously easy to figure out, I had absolutely no idea on how to go about the complicated ones...which actually are as easy, if we correct and speak correct English on a regular basis. On top of that, my English Professor is an old uncle who has been teaching school students for about 40 years now and assumed that we were complete "unpad gaawars" and proceeded to lecture on and on and on and on and on......times infinity. While he was droning on about how we should start meeting people who speak english, I realised...shit. English is gonna be worse than math. I thought it would be easier, so i was taking it lightly too. But now the sad reality is that, this is gonna be harder than I thought. Boo hoo.
After contemplating for a week, here's my Get-Back-With-English Program: Phase 1.
1) Start with simple sentence correction. Do at least 10 in a day.
2) Some people just have a good SENSE of English, they say. Add a few basic rules to that, and you should be good to go.
3) Start speaking grammatically correct even when you are conversing at work.
That's all I could come up with for now. Will add more later.
And here I thought, I was a good writer. So crushed!
While the obvious sentence mistakes were obviously easy to figure out, I had absolutely no idea on how to go about the complicated ones...which actually are as easy, if we correct and speak correct English on a regular basis. On top of that, my English Professor is an old uncle who has been teaching school students for about 40 years now and assumed that we were complete "unpad gaawars" and proceeded to lecture on and on and on and on and on......times infinity. While he was droning on about how we should start meeting people who speak english, I realised...shit. English is gonna be worse than math. I thought it would be easier, so i was taking it lightly too. But now the sad reality is that, this is gonna be harder than I thought. Boo hoo.
After contemplating for a week, here's my Get-Back-With-English Program: Phase 1.
1) Start with simple sentence correction. Do at least 10 in a day.
2) Some people just have a good SENSE of English, they say. Add a few basic rules to that, and you should be good to go.
3) Start speaking grammatically correct even when you are conversing at work.
That's all I could come up with for now. Will add more later.
And here I thought, I was a good writer. So crushed!
sentence correction is where you make up time, so gotta be good at this so that can spend more time on passages
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