Yeah, I don’t know how to express in words what I mean.
Oh ok, I think that makes more sense. “Over the chair” is giving more detail about the path of the chase.
That’s really good the Oxford Languages dictionary from google search specifies that the meaning highlighted in red is an adverb for me.
I have a mac too. I’ll try to look for your dictionary.
No, the adverb definition is a different definition with a different example sentence where e.g. there is no prepositional object. If you expand “More definitions” you’ll find the same definition that @LMD highlighted in the preposition section.
This post took me 27 minutes to practice simple sentence problems and make this post.
Clever John carefully ate the very juicy steak.
Action verb: ate
Subject: John
Object: steak
Modifiers:
“Clever” modifies “John”
“carefully” modifies “ate”
“the” modifies “steak”
“very” modifies “juicy”
“juicy” modifies “steak”
Conclusions: John is clever. He is some steak carefully. That steak was very juicy.
John thought hard about chemistry.
Action verb: thought
Subject: John
Modifiers:
“hard” modifies “thought”
Prepositional phrase: “about chemistry”. It’s an adverb modifying “hard”. “about” relates “chemistry” with “thought” to tell us what John was thinking about.
Conclusions: John thought hard about something. The thing he was thinking hard about was chemistry.
John put the toy soldier in the compartment in the box on the shelf in his room.
Action verb: put
Subject: John
Object: soldier
Modifiers:
The first “the” modifies “soldier”
“Toy” modifies “soldier”
Prepositional phrase: “in the compartment” modifies “put”. It’s an adverb. The preposition “in” relates “compartment” with “put” to tell us the location of the putting action.
The second “the” modifies “compartment”.
Prepositional phrase: “in the box” I think modifies “compartment”. It’s an adjective. “In” relates “box” and “compartment” to tell us where the compartment is.
The third “the” modifies “box”.
Prepositional phrase: “on the shelf” modifies “box”. It’s an adjective. “on” relates “shelf” with “box” to tell us the location of the box.
The fourth “the” modifies “shelf”.
Prepositional phrase: “in his room” modifies “shelf”. It’s an adjective. “In” relates “room” with “shelf” to tell us where the shelf is located.
“his” modifies “room”.
Conclusions: John put the toy soldier in a compartment. That compartment is in a box that’s on a shelf. That shelf is in his room.
I forgot to time this post. It may have took me about 15-20 mins to make.
The delicious cake with berries unfortunately fell onto the dirty floor from the table.
Action verb: fell
Subject: cake
Modifiers:
The first “the” modifies “cake”.
“Delicious” modifies “cake”
Prepositional phrase: “with berries” is an adjective that modifies cake. The preposition “with” relates “berries” with “cake” to tell us what ingredient the cake had.
“Unfortunately” modifies “fell”.
Prepositional phrase: “onto the dirty floor” is an adverb that modifies “fell”. The preposition “onto” relates “floor” with “fell” to tell us where the cake landed when it fell.
The second “the” modifies “floor”.
“Dirty” modifies “floor”.
Prepositional phrase: “from the table” is an adverb that modifies “fell”. The preposition “from” relates “table” and “fell” to tell us the starting place that the fell action happened.
The third “the” modifies “table”.
Conclusions: There was a cake that fell. That cake was delicious. The cake was made with berries. It was unfortunate that the cake fell. The cake fell onto the floor. The floor was dirty. The cake fell from the table that it was on.
I read the grammar article for 9 mins and worked on this post for about 15 mins
Examples of groups: “My lunch” is a group with a sandwich, soup, and a drink.
That makes sense. The speaker’s lunch is a group cuz it has his sandwich, his soup, and his drink. You can talk about all those food items with one word.
A group can be viewed as one thing , one unit.
I saw what “unit” meant in Merriam Webster, I think it said something that is its own thing but can also be part something else.
Here is a picture of the definition I read(it’s marked in red):
We can’t think about hundreds of things at once, but we can think about three groups at once, even if they’re big groups (a pickle has over a billion trillion atoms, but it’s still easy to think about as one thing).
That’s true I can think about what I’m going to eat today by using the group words breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
A complete thought (clause) means a simple sentence. ”Clause” is the grammar word for “simple sentence”.
Ok, a clause is the grammar way to say simple sentence.
An incomplete thought (phrase) generally means a noun, verb, adjective or adverb, plus modifiers. It takes at least two phrases to make a sentence (a verb and a noun, the subject).
Ok, I think I see what a phrase means in grammar. It’s groups of words that can’t form their own simple sentence, but if you combine them they can make a clause.
Note: A phrase can be a single word. It’s not wrong, and sometimes convenient, to say that the subject of a sentence is always a “noun phrase” (a phrase which functions as a noun) because there’s nothing wrong with groups with only one thing in them.
That’s good to know. I was thinking: how small can one phrase be? Like can it contain one word?
I can only think of proper nouns like, “Joe” or “Elizabeth”. Those could be their own noun phrase.
I think I also read the oxford languages definition of unit. Here it is:
I think that’s my bad I didn’t tell the whole story. I have a habit of looking up the two dictionaries and if I one doesn’t make sense I look at the other.
I think that’s a problem cuz it leads to misquoting. I don’t know what to do about it. I think if I want to say something factual about the definitions, next time, I could copy and paste what definitions made some sense to me on a note pad. And when I write about it I have something to reference.
I read Phrases from the grammar article for about 5 mins and made this post in 18 mins.
A noun (or verb, adjective or adverb) phrase functions as a noun (or verb, adjective or adverb) and can be used anywhere a noun (or verb, adjective or adverb) would be used.
I see we’re treating the noun phrase as one thing or as one whole noun. It works to treat phrases as their own thing, as their own whatever is the main word.
The sentence’s verb is a verb phrase, “very quickly ate”. The phrase’s main word is the verb “ate”, and it has one modifier, “very quickly”.
I see how "ate"s modifier “very quickly” counts as one modifier not two. “Very” is modifying “quickly” not “ate”.
Detail: It’s ambiguous whether “during the day” modifies the verb “ate”, the whole verb phrase “very quickly ate”, or the whole clause (“cats ate kibble” plus modifiers).
Yeah, I think I see how ambiguous it could get like what is a modifier modifying.
This ambiguity is typical of adverbs at the ends of clauses.
Ok, the ambiguity happens a lot when adverbs are at the end of clauses.
However, it doesn’t matter. The sentence means the same thing regardless.
Ok, I think I see cuz if “during the day” modified only “ate” it tells us when the eating happened. “very quickly” still modifies “ate” to tell us how the eating was done.
If “during the day” modified “very quickly ate” then it would still be true. The “very quickly” part still happens in the day time.
I want to try this assignment cuz it’s a game and I think I would like it more. I already downloaded it and played a bit yesterday.
Literally, I learned how to use the controls on mobile and that you can connect the objects with other objects or connects objects with other actions(e.g. baba is win). I saw you can make a chain of connected objects and actions.
I think I’m learning how to use words and apply them to other words. Like my brain is making those connections.
I like how the game uses logic to win. I liked the first two levels so far.
Yeah, I’ll do that.
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I hope it’s ok if I do test weekly too and if it’s appropriate to write it here.
I’ve been typing on https://monkeytype.com/ lately. It was once a day starting to weeks ago, but I stopped cuz I wasn’t feeling well. I started again today and here is my stats for today(200 common words test, 15 seconds):
I did 57 attempts in the span of like 17 mins.
When I start, I try to type really fast the first few tests. After that I try to type slower. I saw a suggestion that I could type slower and focus on accuracy. Suggestion below(ET talking to @Eternity on Eternity Async Tutoring):
I see that I could autopilot the typing when doing it slowly and I don’t mess up as much.
Sometimes I talk to myself or hum a song in my head and can still type ok at a low speed. I don’t know if that’s appropriate like if I have to focus entirely on the typing. It helps me though cuz I don’t worry too much about messing and take my mind off making mistakes.
I think’s been going better than ok. I have 69 dandelions and 4 flowers. At first, I was focused on beating every level I saw. I learned that the levels in each zone are separated by difficulty so now I want to try the other easier levels or varied levels. I liked that cuz it showed me that not every problem can be fixed right off the bat in the game and I think in life. Like you can come back to it later when you know more and are smarter.
Lately I tried earlier levels that I skipped such as Zone 1 - Extra 2, and I’ve been approaching the levels more consciously than before. Before that I would try and see what sticks and when I somehow finished the level, I didn’t feel as satisfied and was glad it was over. I think I had problems with that approach.
Now though I try to talk to myself like (small spoiler for the game) for Zone 1 - Extra 2 I would tell myself I have to either push baba or the rock past the crab even though I seemingly only have two entities to work with(baba and the rock). Every time I beat a level now my jaw just drops now. It feels so satisfying beating it that I’m surprised with myself.
I’m still going to move on from harder levels and try other newer levels cuz I think about the rate of learning. Knowing about the rate of learning over time helps cuz I can ask myself after a few minutes of trying, “Am I even learning anything new in the game right now?” “No? Time to move on.”
Weekly typing assignment:
I’ve been typing once a day the past week. I’ve been doing 15 mins a day. Lately, I see that I’m looking at the clock quite a few times. I think I don’t want it to be too long so I did 10 mins today.
Also, I think I’ve been going too slow in a way cuz it feels a little boring not trying as hard typing slow(30-39wpm). I tried speeding up today(40-50wpm) and I think that helped cuz I was more engaged in the typing and when I sometimes automatically hum a song my concentration would be thrown off a bit. I liked typing more how i did today.
Below are my stats for today. I cropped the table out a bit so I can show only today’s results. The numbers on the left should be accuracy and the numbers on the right are wpm. The triangles on the bottom match with the numbers for accuracy. All the tests are on monkeytype 200 most common words and 15 second test:
I forgot to add but I think the typing is going ok so far. I notice that when I play minecraft and I have to type console commands I have to think less about it and I type it fast.
I’ve been keeping track of the error rate like tests I’ve made a mistake on out of all the tests for the day. I see when I type slow (30-40wpm) I have like around 6-9% error rate. I like looking at the errors being so low but I do see that it kind of puts some pressure on me to not mess up. I don’t know what to fully think of it rn.
Also, no one told me to track my error rate I just thought it would be interesting to see how i improve.
Hi @LMD, I see you may be having an issue with creating posts/replies. While I don’t know the exact cause of what youre going through, I thought I share what has helped reply better in the forum. The thing youre going through sounds similar to mine.
Here’s a rule about responding to tutoring topics:
I hope you know you dont have to respond to me I dont want to put pressure on you or anything like that.
Here is what I want to try from the rules of tutoring topics(link):
This is the first time I’ve seen posting taking long described as you have. I think I had something similar where I do write something out and I add bits and pieces to it and then things I’ve written out sound like make more sense arranged in a different part of the post.
I see what you mean that sounds tough writing a post out and then taking some time shuffling it around. It would be cool if that was quicker and required less effort.
If you’re concerned about how the post is going to come out when you briefly type it at first, then what helped me thinking about that was knowing that that is my average quality post. Like that is what Im able to currently do without a lot of conscious effort. It helped thinking it’s my average cuz then I thought I could learn to improve my average. And also that thats the point of the forum: to discuss and build skills even the posting skills.
I liked thinking I could improve cuz it put a lot of weight off my shoulders about how I should post.
I hope youre able to figure out your problem. Good luck.
Thanks. I appreciate your reply.
I’d forgotten about this point, thanks. Now I recall Elliot saying some similar in a post recently, perhaps in one of your topics? I wasn’t able to find it. I’ll keep looking.
Okay no. I think the thing I remember was posted by Elliot in Eternity’s tutoring topic:
I’m wondering if you had read that too. I don’t think posting in my tutoring thread is a high stakes context like building a space ship. In fact it’s a good place to make errors because Elliot is helping me find errors and helping me learn things.
So I think you’re right that I should be more okay with doing average posts. I should expect those to be more common. I’ve tried to keep that in mind while making this post and I’ll try keep it in mind for others.
Yeah, I dont remember exactly where I got it from. I do remember reading stuff from ET’s replies to me on my self-help book thread and some of his replies to @Eternity in his Async Tutoring thread.
One of ET’s replies I liked was this one:
I liked it cuz it showed me I don’t have to be at my best all the time. It made me think a lot about how I make posts and replies and how I edited them a bunch to make them “good”.
Yeah, I did read that. I think it made me think a lot about averages and our average work.
I know that ET talks about averages like not just in the work we do, but I think in stuff we regularly do like our behaviors. One of the behaviors is like being a jerk once a week still makes the person a jerk and is part of who they are. I think the point I got is there is average stuff that we do and I thought maybe it applied to our writing as well.
I got really tired of rewriting stuff a lot and I thought maybe the first thing we write is enough in a way cuz that’s we’re able to do without a lot of effort. Maybe some edits here and there to fix spelling and mistakes. I thought if we do something on average then that’s what we’re capable of and we can fix the stuff we have a lot of trouble.
I also I switched to my computer to write the rest of the post from my phone after I replied to your last quote. I think I type better on my phone than on my computer somehow like I don’t second guess myself a lot.
I don’t think this came out right, but like we can focus on improving the stuff we have a lot of trouble with later. Like we improve it as we post along
I like your conclusions cuz yeah we should be ok with doing average posts. I hope my first post about this topic helped. I don’t think I have the skills to elucidate what I mean with precision tho.
I thought I give some first thoughts about what helped me with posting better and I think you’re right that us doing an average job with posts is more common.
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