Eats, Shoots, and Leaves Essay - Rough Draft
AP Language + Composition
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves
“I don’t know how bad things are in America, but in the UK I cannot emphasize it enough: standards of punctuation are abysmal” [xx of the Introduction] Truss’ whole purpose of her novel is to try and fix poor grammar and punctuation that many people now obtain. Many examples are given of poor punctuation in the UK that should be simple and taught at a very young age. I’m here to agree that many people in the United States also have horrid punctuation.
Let’s start off about as simple as it gets, it seems that most people cannot even differentiate the different uses of their, there, and they’re. It is not just young people either; I correct many adults on their use of the word. Although, it is many of the times the youth of our nation that cannot seem to get this right. If you go on any social media website you will see hundreds of examples of this. The majority of our nation relies on autocorrect to help them. Autocorrect can only do so much. Autocorrect cannot differentiate the difference between your and you’re. These are things that everybody should and needs to know. I know for a fact that more than half of our nation should know the differences because you are taught this in school at a very young level of learning. I, myself still remember learning this is school. I learned it in I am assuming second through fourth grade. Remember spelling words? A lot of the time the words that sounded the same with different spellings and meanings were on the list. We get tested on them, but yet so many people continue to use the words at inappropriate times and in false contexts. Even people that claim to be sticklers for punctuation have terrible punctuation themselves. Yet, they continue to try and correct others. Sometimes, the corrections they make are even false.
Human beings also seem to forget that each sentence needs an ending punctuation mark of some sort. Whether the ending mark is a period, question
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves
“I don’t know how bad things are in America, but in the UK I cannot emphasize it enough: standards of punctuation are abysmal” [xx of the Introduction] Truss’ whole purpose of her novel is to try and fix poor grammar and punctuation that many people now obtain. Many examples are given of poor punctuation in the UK that should be simple and taught at a very young age. I’m here to agree that many people in the United States also have horrid punctuation.
Let’s start off about as simple as it gets, it seems that most people cannot even differentiate the different uses of their, there, and they’re. It is not just young people either; I correct many adults on their use of the word. Although, it is many of the times the youth of our nation that cannot seem to get this right. If you go on any social media website you will see hundreds of examples of this. The majority of our nation relies on autocorrect to help them. Autocorrect can only do so much. Autocorrect cannot differentiate the difference between your and you’re. These are things that everybody should and needs to know. I know for a fact that more than half of our nation should know the differences because you are taught this in school at a very young level of learning. I, myself still remember learning this is school. I learned it in I am assuming second through fourth grade. Remember spelling words? A lot of the time the words that sounded the same with different spellings and meanings were on the list. We get tested on them, but yet so many people continue to use the words at inappropriate times and in false contexts. Even people that claim to be sticklers for punctuation have terrible punctuation themselves. Yet, they continue to try and correct others. Sometimes, the corrections they make are even false.
Human beings also seem to forget that each sentence needs an ending punctuation mark of some sort. Whether the ending mark is a period, question