# FI grammar article Part 2-5 \[AM\]

**URL:** https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/fi-grammar-article-part-2-5-am/1968
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**Created:** [October 12, 2024, 9:16am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/fi-grammar-article-part-2-5-am/1968 "2024-10-12T09:16:04Z")
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### Author: ![ActiveMind](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/user_avatar/discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/activemind/32/5560_2.png) [@ActiveMind](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/ActiveMind)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2024, 9:17pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/fi-grammar-article-part-2-5-am/1968/48 "2024-10-20T21:17:48Z")

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# Project Conclusion

## Succes Evaluation

> [@ActiveMind](#):
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> The success criteria are reading the whole article, doing all the exercises, create grammar trees for each practice sentence, and addressing any mistakes I make.

I think I met these criteria. Addressing all mistakes is harder to tell, there are probably more mistakes, but I’ve made a good effort to find and correct mistakes. If the criteria is demanding perfection (eventually), then I think that’s too demanding. A better criteria would be to have a session for looking for errors after completing an exercise set, or that I should dedicate at least 45 minutes to looking for errors in each exercise set.

I kind of think that not demanding any correctness, like 8/10 correct exercises, and rather only say “do all exercises”, “read the whole article” and so on, is playing it safe. But some people fail at that, so perhaps it’s fine.  
I like the way I did it in [the arithmetic trees project](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/arithmetic-trees-activemind/1963), where I kept doing exercises until I had 10 correct ones. Another option could be like “do sets of 10 until 90% success rate”.

> [@ActiveMind](#):
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> I’ll consider completing the project within 10 days a success.

It is now 8 days since I started, so the project is a success.

## Benefits of the Project

The main benefit was the grammar I learned. What I knew from beforehand (before [the exploration project](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/fi-grammar-article-part-1-am/1964/10)) was mostly just what verbs, nouns, adjectives, prepositions, and pronouns are. I learned:

- what is needed to have a complete thought and,
- the steps to analyze one
- what phrases are
- how groupings of words acts as one thing and how that can be viewed as functions
- that there are two types of conjunctions
- about verbals
- about words based of verbs that define a concept instead of telling of an action happening
- about imperative sentences
- to think more consciously that there can be implied words
- making outlines
- that each word in sentence has meaning and a purpose (a question it answers)
- to make grammar trees

This project was the first non-mini project, so I gain more experience doing projects on CF, and I learn to do structured projects in general. It adds to my public track record of successful projects.

## Plan followthrough

> [@ActiveMind](#):
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> In the previous project I made a mistake of forgetting to include a word. In this project I’ll make sure to do check over each sentence and the analysis to check specifically whether all words were included.

I didn’t really do this. I did it for like the middle of the first exercise set (part 2), and I caught one error doing it, but then I forgot. It didn’t seem to cause many errors after that though, I don’t think the check is necessary. I should do better at following through with specific things like this in projects. I should explicitly say why I will stop doing the thing if I think that’s better.

I watched the relevant parts of the Max tutoring videos. I compared answers with forum answers. I did some online research, but not a lot. I could have done that more.

## Other notes

I made way more errors than I expected. The exercises were harder than the part 1 exercises. So I spent way more time than I expected to.

I don’t know exactly how much time I spent since my time tracking got muddled with other philosophy activities like watching some of tutoring videos, reading other articles, and reading the forum. I recorded it all under “philosophy”. I can say I did 30 hours of philosophy for the past 8 days. I would estimate that the project took around 20-24 hours then.  
The next project I want to do more detailed time tracking and give a summary in the conclusion.

I had one time I got emotional and frustrated doing exercises. I think I eventually handled that fine enough. Otherwise I enjoyed doing the project. I’m happy to complete projects and make progress.

Thanks for the help @Elliot @LMD @Eternity.

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