Stewart Pidd's Essay

In order to punctuate sentences correctly the writers must understand the rules and concepts of writing. A clause is a group of words containing a subject and a verb. The two types of clauses are independent and subordinate clauses. An independent clause can stand alone as a complete sentence, while a dependent clause needs a subordinate to help it stand as a complete sentence. A phrase is a group of words that do not contain a subject or a verb. There are three common sentence errors and they are a fragment, a comma splice and a run-on sentence. A fragment is a sentence that is missing a verb or subject. A comma splice is a sentence that is only punctuated with a comma. Now thirdly a run-on sentence consist of two independent clauses without the correct punctuation. As i read the essay i found way to many errors and that's why I think Stewart deserves a "D" not a passing grade.

The first error was a run-on sentence. This happens between skating rules and I rock. Beside having a bad sentence structure he is sounding pretty cocky to me about his skating skills. This sentence seems to have nothing to do with the rest of the essay.

The second error that Stewart makes is between these two sentences If I skate. I win. These are both independent clauses. The way i would fix it is by the taking away the period from the first independent clause and put a comma there so the two sentences become one. You should always combine the two sentences that go together, because it makes your writing look better.

The third error that Stewart made was when he said I don't like coach T's learning methods. The error in my opinion occurred between the second and last sentence of the first paragraph. The way he would have to fix the error is by take the period out and connect the sentence with a conjunction.

The fourth eror was a sentence with a subordinate clause punctuated as a sentence. He needs to look out is the next sentence he made an error. He brought his car in the picture which again had to do with nothing he said previously.

The fifth error is when he says mr. T called him his little drama queen it made him very upset. He says he has a lot of drama in his life but he's dealing with it.

The final error is in the last sentence, when he says i deserve a "C" when he did poorly on the essay. I think the teacher didn't care about his situation.

In conclusion, Stewart deserves a non-passing grade due to all the errors he made in his essay. He needs to work on the punctuation part in the english language. Just because you can speak english doesn't mean you can write it. His writing was very much a rough draft. His writing could of been better if he revised it a few times first.