1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:01,010 Okay. 2 00:00:01,020 --> 00:00:06,090 Now let's have a short discussion about common grammar or word choice mistakes. 3 00:00:06,450 --> 00:00:09,810 These are some of the fatal flaws that lower grades. 4 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:13,530 The most common. 5 00:00:14,790 --> 00:00:21,090 Now, academic writing is much different than other forms of writing, because in academic writing you 6 00:00:21,090 --> 00:00:22,500 don't write the way you speak. 7 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:24,670 You don't use slang. 8 00:00:25,700 --> 00:00:26,000 Right. 9 00:00:26,060 --> 00:00:28,610 Do not expect the reader to know what you mean. 10 00:00:28,730 --> 00:00:33,390 Sometimes in other types of writing, you might assume the reader knows what you mean. 11 00:00:33,410 --> 00:00:37,670 In academic writing, you don't assume anything right? 12 00:00:37,790 --> 00:00:39,440 When you make assumptions. 13 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:44,360 Or, as I like to say, when you write in a way that requires inferencing. 14 00:00:44,690 --> 00:00:50,780 If you write in a way that requires inferencing or making inferences, you're about to have a problem 15 00:00:50,780 --> 00:00:52,130 in terms of your score. 16 00:00:52,610 --> 00:00:54,130 Don't write in fragments. 17 00:00:54,140 --> 00:00:56,070 Use complete sentences. 18 00:00:56,090 --> 00:00:59,930 Always use standard written English. 19 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:05,150 Here are some bad habits to avoid in academic writing. 20 00:01:05,210 --> 00:01:15,680 Don't use you having inconsistent purpose person having inconsistent tense abbreviations using slang 21 00:01:15,710 --> 00:01:17,000 wana ghana. 22 00:01:17,270 --> 00:01:21,020 It's okay to use that in speaking but not in writing. 23 00:01:21,500 --> 00:01:23,000 Don't use etc.. 24 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:28,080 Avoid ending verbs with n or n instead of i and g. 25 00:01:28,100 --> 00:01:29,930 Waiting and watching. 26 00:01:30,380 --> 00:01:33,740 Some of you might think is funny, but I see it a lot. 27 00:01:36,490 --> 00:01:40,600 Be careful with your pronoun antecedent agreement and reference. 28 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:41,470 Right. 29 00:01:41,470 --> 00:01:46,870 A lot of times students use these pronouns wrong, they use them wrongly. 30 00:01:46,990 --> 00:01:52,360 And so you have to make sure that you're able to write in a way that uses proper pronouns. 31 00:01:54,260 --> 00:01:58,820 Mechanical rules never began a sentence with a number. 32 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:00,320 Spell it out. 33 00:02:00,890 --> 00:02:03,830 All numbers below 100 should be spelled out. 34 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:07,640 Those above 100 are optional, but you should be consistent. 35 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:12,830 Here are some commonly misspelled words you have to be careful with. 36 00:02:13,700 --> 00:02:14,050 Right. 37 00:02:14,060 --> 00:02:15,650 I see this very often. 38 00:02:15,860 --> 00:02:19,640 And you want to make sure that you don't make these simple, basic mistakes. 39 00:02:20,570 --> 00:02:26,330 If there's any slide that you want to spend some more time looking at, just pause the video and you 40 00:02:26,330 --> 00:02:27,950 can look at it a little bit longer. 41 00:02:29,390 --> 00:02:31,310 Unnecessary repetition. 42 00:02:32,210 --> 00:02:33,560 Unnecessary repetition. 43 00:02:33,590 --> 00:02:40,250 Now, remember, I told you sometimes when being when being for coherence and cohesion, you might have 44 00:02:40,250 --> 00:02:46,580 some parts where you have repetition, but we're talking about unnecessary repetition. 45 00:02:47,270 --> 00:02:55,160 And so if you are being repetitive in your writing, look here, you know, a round circle. 46 00:02:55,580 --> 00:02:57,440 A circle is automatically round. 47 00:02:57,950 --> 00:02:59,120 Refer back. 48 00:02:59,540 --> 00:03:00,230 Right. 49 00:03:01,910 --> 00:03:03,740 The whole entire world. 50 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:11,390 This is the kind of writing that you have to be kind of careful with because it's unnecessary repetition. 51 00:03:14,090 --> 00:03:17,270 Be careful with some words and phrases to avoid. 52 00:03:18,050 --> 00:03:20,420 You want to try to avoid contractions. 53 00:03:20,990 --> 00:03:26,360 This is difficult, and even sometimes I might make a mistake and use a contraction. 54 00:03:26,990 --> 00:03:34,730 It's difficult sometimes because in many of your your English language schools, they don't tell you 55 00:03:34,730 --> 00:03:37,280 to avoid contractions in academic writing. 56 00:03:38,420 --> 00:03:44,180 And so sometimes it's a really difficult habit to break for, even for even a native speaker. 57 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:47,950 Avoid beginning sentences with conjunctions. 58 00:03:49,130 --> 00:03:49,740 Right. 59 00:03:51,060 --> 00:03:52,020 There are no such. 60 00:03:52,050 --> 00:03:54,060 Be careful with words that don't exist. 61 00:03:54,450 --> 00:03:58,080 Be careful of capitalizing words that should not be capitalizing. 62 00:03:59,250 --> 00:04:06,810 So these are some of the things that you have to be careful with in terms of words and phrases to avoid. 63 00:04:08,450 --> 00:04:14,360 Is very important that you know your parts of speech and use your parts of speech correctly. 64 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:19,370 Here are some more specifics in terms of errors. 65 00:04:19,820 --> 00:04:20,990 Fragments. 66 00:04:21,980 --> 00:04:22,430 Oh. 67 00:04:22,430 --> 00:04:23,480 Fragments. 68 00:04:24,020 --> 00:04:24,650 Right. 69 00:04:24,860 --> 00:04:26,320 You've got to be careful with fragments. 70 00:04:26,330 --> 00:04:28,610 Look at these examples of fragments first. 71 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:30,350 The lack of exercise. 72 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:32,340 Period. 73 00:04:32,940 --> 00:04:34,200 Well, what about it? 74 00:04:36,270 --> 00:04:36,780 OC. 75 00:04:36,780 --> 00:04:37,450 What about it? 76 00:04:37,450 --> 00:04:38,490 That's a fragment. 77 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:39,840 What are you talking about? 78 00:04:39,840 --> 00:04:40,020 What? 79 00:04:40,020 --> 00:04:46,470 About what about the lack of exercise, although the number falling. 80 00:04:48,350 --> 00:04:51,500 For example, fast food, sweet things and oily food. 81 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:53,000 These are fragments. 82 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:57,440 When it says fragment, it means you have a period and is an incomplete thought. 83 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:05,190 Very often this happens because a student can't write compound sentences correctly, in complex sentences 84 00:05:05,190 --> 00:05:05,940 correctly. 85 00:05:06,270 --> 00:05:09,240 And when you're not able to do that, you end up writing fragments. 86 00:05:10,500 --> 00:05:17,400 Now, here you can look at these examples and you can see how those sentences will be written so that 87 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:18,960 they're not fragments. 88 00:05:20,710 --> 00:05:22,120 Comma splices. 89 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:25,090 Comma splices are a type of run on sentence. 90 00:05:25,540 --> 00:05:26,860 Write their sentences. 91 00:05:26,860 --> 00:05:29,860 They should be separate but are joined with a comma. 92 00:05:29,890 --> 00:05:33,790 Run ons are sentences that should be separate but are joined anyway. 93 00:05:35,170 --> 00:05:35,860 Right? 94 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:39,430 In the past, people did not have cars they used to walk. 95 00:05:39,910 --> 00:05:40,190 Right? 96 00:05:40,210 --> 00:05:41,560 Why is this a run on? 97 00:05:42,460 --> 00:05:42,720 Right. 98 00:05:42,730 --> 00:05:44,830 Because there is. 99 00:05:45,210 --> 00:05:46,420 There should be something. 100 00:05:46,940 --> 00:05:49,210 There's no proper comma placement. 101 00:05:52,100 --> 00:05:54,950 Heart disease is a big problem and kills thousands of people. 102 00:05:54,980 --> 00:05:59,570 Heart disease is a big problem because it kills thousands of people. 103 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:04,870 Our modern our modern life is very easy. 104 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:07,690 Jobs are easier than they were 50 years ago. 105 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:10,150 Because since. 106 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:11,290 Right. 107 00:06:11,620 --> 00:06:19,810 So very often in essay writing, I see comma splices and comma splices are a huge, huge grammatical 108 00:06:19,810 --> 00:06:22,720 mistake that you have to stop doing. 109 00:06:24,340 --> 00:06:24,640 Right. 110 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:25,420 You can go ahead. 111 00:06:25,420 --> 00:06:32,350 And these are some ways that you can fix comma splice problems, right? 112 00:06:32,470 --> 00:06:39,160 You can use a period, you can use a semicolon, you can use a comma and in coordinating conjunction 113 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:41,680 or you can use a subordinating conjunction. 114 00:06:41,890 --> 00:06:47,590 Your coordinating conjunctions are compound sentences, your subordinate conjunctions, subordinating 115 00:06:47,590 --> 00:06:51,460 conjunctions are complex sentences, right? 116 00:06:51,460 --> 00:06:57,700 But these are four ways that you can practice being able to avoid comma splices. 117 00:06:57,730 --> 00:07:00,460 It all comes from writing sentences correctly. 118 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:07,050 Now, if you're just using a lot of periods, that's going to make you fall more into the simplistic 119 00:07:07,050 --> 00:07:09,580 type of writing, and you won't get a really high score for it. 120 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:13,230 You'll be correct, but you won't get a really high score for it. 121 00:07:14,090 --> 00:07:19,730 If you're using method three and method four, you're going to get a higher score for doing it correctly. 122 00:07:22,130 --> 00:07:25,240 These are some examples of how to fix common splices. 123 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:31,070 So again, if you need to stop the screen right here and take a look at how we fix these comma splices, 124 00:07:31,070 --> 00:07:36,080 look at look at a and then look at the examples of how we fix the comma splices. 125 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:41,860 Here are a few more common splice examples. 126 00:07:42,310 --> 00:07:42,910 All right. 127 00:07:45,450 --> 00:07:47,880 You can look and see how these things were fixed. 128 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:53,950 Run on sentences. 129 00:07:56,590 --> 00:08:01,750 A run on sentence is a sentence comprised of two or more independent clauses, not properly separated. 130 00:08:03,060 --> 00:08:03,450 Right. 131 00:08:03,450 --> 00:08:06,660 So again, we're talking about really comma splices again. 132 00:08:07,540 --> 00:08:10,780 It happens because there's a lack of punctuation or conjunctions. 133 00:08:10,780 --> 00:08:13,600 Incorrect punctuation, a comma splice. 134 00:08:14,470 --> 00:08:17,290 A run on sentence is not simply a long sentence. 135 00:08:22,740 --> 00:08:24,790 My favorite Mediterranean spread is hummus. 136 00:08:24,810 --> 00:08:26,190 It is very garlicky. 137 00:08:27,750 --> 00:08:28,980 What's the problem here? 138 00:08:30,230 --> 00:08:34,190 Because sense or period. 139 00:08:35,180 --> 00:08:37,160 It is nearly 5:30. 140 00:08:37,490 --> 00:08:40,010 We cannot reach town before dark. 141 00:08:41,810 --> 00:08:43,160 You're missing a conjunction. 142 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:44,000 So. 143 00:08:48,680 --> 00:08:50,210 I have to go to the store. 144 00:08:50,330 --> 00:08:51,650 I need to buy milk. 145 00:08:52,010 --> 00:08:54,200 You either have to be very simplistic. 146 00:08:54,230 --> 00:08:55,400 I have to go to the store. 147 00:08:55,430 --> 00:08:56,270 Period. 148 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:57,760 I need milk. 149 00:08:57,770 --> 00:08:58,730 I need to buy milk. 150 00:08:58,730 --> 00:08:59,240 Period. 151 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:01,340 Or to get a higher score. 152 00:09:02,270 --> 00:09:04,790 Create a use a subordinate in conjunction. 153 00:09:05,270 --> 00:09:08,780 I have to go to the store because I need to buy milk. 154 00:09:11,130 --> 00:09:13,920 These are more examples of run on sentences. 155 00:09:14,770 --> 00:09:17,860 You have example on the left and an example on the right. 156 00:09:20,690 --> 00:09:28,180 Again, if you feel like I'm going through some parts too quickly for you, stop the video. 157 00:09:28,190 --> 00:09:30,290 Take a look and read more carefully. 158 00:09:32,380 --> 00:09:36,400 Sometimes you have to be careful with missing main components of sentences. 159 00:09:37,030 --> 00:09:40,210 Write sentences, have a subject and a predicate. 160 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:44,650 And very often, students leave out the subject or leave out the predicate. 161 00:09:44,680 --> 00:09:47,320 And when you do that, you're creating a grammar problem. 162 00:09:49,100 --> 00:09:51,210 Subject verb agreement, right? 163 00:09:51,350 --> 00:09:56,960 In order for a sentence to be grammatically correct is subject and corresponding verb must agree. 164 00:09:58,020 --> 00:09:58,350 Right. 165 00:09:58,350 --> 00:09:59,520 They must agree. 166 00:09:59,880 --> 00:10:02,370 So this is a big, big problem for students. 167 00:10:02,370 --> 00:10:07,240 And now for most students, if I ask them the rule, they know the rule. 168 00:10:07,260 --> 00:10:11,010 But what most students have trouble with is performance of the rule. 169 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:17,180 Now performance of the rule gets better if you're doing focused practice. 170 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:19,060 Right. 171 00:10:19,210 --> 00:10:24,520 If you're doing folk as the practice, so sometimes you might write a paragraph and if you have problems 172 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:27,100 with subject verb agreement, you might say, You know what? 173 00:10:27,190 --> 00:10:34,510 When I write this program for this program, when I write this paragraph, I'm going to just focus on 174 00:10:34,510 --> 00:10:36,400 my subject verb agreement. 175 00:10:36,610 --> 00:10:42,880 I'm going to be mindful and focus on my subject verb agreement to make sure that I'm able to get it 176 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:46,150 correct and perfect my ability to do that. 177 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:50,770 Here are some examples of subject verb agreement errors. 178 00:10:50,860 --> 00:10:53,740 Look at example one and look at example two. 179 00:10:55,700 --> 00:10:56,020 Right. 180 00:10:56,030 --> 00:10:58,040 See if you can spot the difference. 181 00:10:58,890 --> 00:11:01,650 An important part of my life have been. 182 00:11:02,470 --> 00:11:06,280 Right should be an important part of my life has been. 183 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:09,200 My life has been not. 184 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:10,700 My life have been. 185 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:11,990 They have. 186 00:11:11,990 --> 00:11:13,190 We have. 187 00:11:14,370 --> 00:11:14,790 Right. 188 00:11:14,790 --> 00:11:15,650 He has. 189 00:11:15,660 --> 00:11:16,830 She has. 190 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:19,930 My life has. 191 00:11:27,130 --> 00:11:33,250 Adding a plural as this is another big, big issue that I see sometimes as students leave off. 192 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:37,030 This is a grammar mistake that you have to be very careful with everybody. 193 00:11:39,610 --> 00:11:43,000 Pronouns misusing pronouns again. 194 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:44,770 Big, big grammatical problem. 195 00:11:45,070 --> 00:11:46,870 Stop here and read about this. 196 00:11:46,900 --> 00:11:51,730 You can learn more about misusing pronouns so you can avoid making that mistake. 197 00:11:53,210 --> 00:11:55,760 No comma after the introductory phrase. 198 00:11:56,180 --> 00:11:56,810 Right. 199 00:11:57,020 --> 00:12:00,680 Like while while it Thanksgiving commercial plate. 200 00:12:00,680 --> 00:12:02,120 While a Thanksgiving. 201 00:12:02,420 --> 00:12:04,130 You have to make sure. 202 00:12:05,460 --> 00:12:08,040 That you have your comma. 203 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:08,970 Right. 204 00:12:08,970 --> 00:12:12,840 So while the Thanksgiving commercial played on the TV. 205 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:13,700 Right. 206 00:12:13,740 --> 00:12:15,990 That's the introductory phrase. 207 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:17,800 All right. 208 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:22,000 While the Thanksgiving commercial played on the TV, that's the introductory phrase. 209 00:12:22,300 --> 00:12:25,840 It's also a dependent clause, right? 210 00:12:26,020 --> 00:12:28,960 So is the introductory phrase and dependent clause. 211 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:31,780 And that means we need to have a comma after TV. 212 00:12:32,380 --> 00:12:34,600 You must have a comma after TV. 213 00:12:36,740 --> 00:12:38,020 Split infinitives. 214 00:12:38,030 --> 00:12:40,670 This is really, really, really technical here. 215 00:12:41,630 --> 00:12:41,990 Right. 216 00:12:41,990 --> 00:12:44,780 It's not really grammatically wrong. 217 00:12:44,780 --> 00:12:47,660 Is more about style and what sounds better. 218 00:12:48,330 --> 00:12:48,650 Right. 219 00:12:48,650 --> 00:12:54,020 So when you see something where it says here, incorrect is not grammatically incorrect. 220 00:12:54,020 --> 00:13:00,110 It's just stylistically incorrect is stylistically incorrect. 221 00:13:03,500 --> 00:13:05,420 Are your dangly modifiers. 222 00:13:05,930 --> 00:13:07,880 Dangly modifiers are a big problem. 223 00:13:07,910 --> 00:13:13,550 Look at this example down here by studying how our grades will be improved. 224 00:13:14,780 --> 00:13:15,260 Contained. 225 00:13:15,290 --> 00:13:21,950 It contains a dangly modifier because it doesn't identify who will be studying hard. 226 00:13:23,510 --> 00:13:25,550 So look at the revised sentence here. 227 00:13:25,850 --> 00:13:29,150 When students study hard, their grades will improve. 228 00:13:30,810 --> 00:13:38,040 Right dangling modifier means is Hague is hanging there, but it's not being said. 229 00:13:40,980 --> 00:13:41,640 Right. 230 00:13:42,060 --> 00:13:42,620 It does. 231 00:13:42,660 --> 00:13:43,530 It's not there. 232 00:13:43,740 --> 00:13:45,120 It has to be there. 233 00:13:45,540 --> 00:13:46,320 It's missing. 234 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:47,420 It's a dangling modifier. 235 00:13:47,460 --> 00:13:49,020 Dangling modifier. 236 00:13:50,790 --> 00:13:51,900 Be careful with your word. 237 00:13:51,900 --> 00:13:54,420 Choice, mistakes, misuse words. 238 00:13:54,930 --> 00:14:00,530 Example There were adverse adverse effects and it should be there were adverse effects. 239 00:14:00,540 --> 00:14:02,790 I see a lot of word choice mistakes. 240 00:14:03,060 --> 00:14:04,920 So you have to be careful with that. 241 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:08,490 Be careful with unwanted connotations or meanings. 242 00:14:08,490 --> 00:14:09,720 I see this a lot. 243 00:14:10,330 --> 00:14:13,890 Example I sprayed the ants in their personal places. 244 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:18,740 Yeah, that's grammatically correct, but it doesn't have any real meaning. 245 00:14:19,370 --> 00:14:19,500 Right. 246 00:14:19,550 --> 00:14:22,190 You're not spraying them in their personal places. 247 00:14:22,250 --> 00:14:24,920 I sprayed the ants in their hiding places. 248 00:14:25,100 --> 00:14:28,790 Again, those are were those are connotation mistakes. 249 00:14:29,980 --> 00:14:34,960 Connotation mistakes, and sometimes if you only have one of them, it's okay. 250 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:40,390 But sometimes I read essays and people have 1010 connotation mistakes. 251 00:14:40,990 --> 00:14:47,440 And when you have that many connotation mistakes with word choice, that means that you're having issues 252 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:52,750 with using the English language properly, and that's what lowers your score. 253 00:14:54,550 --> 00:14:58,870 Complex words where a shorter or simpler word will do. 254 00:15:02,300 --> 00:15:02,950 Okay. 255 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:08,180 So a lot of times people try to use these big words. 256 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:10,690 These big, big words. 257 00:15:10,690 --> 00:15:15,640 And sometimes I'm writing, I'm writing, I'm making comments to students and I'm saying, well, I 258 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:17,560 have no idea what you're talking about. 259 00:15:17,740 --> 00:15:18,150 Right. 260 00:15:18,190 --> 00:15:26,140 Because you're using some big, complex word and you're not using it correctly or as contextually used 261 00:15:26,140 --> 00:15:27,130 incorrectly. 262 00:15:29,290 --> 00:15:32,290 Be careful with awkward word choice mistakes. 263 00:15:32,830 --> 00:15:33,220 Right. 264 00:15:33,220 --> 00:15:38,710 You can take a look at this example, the revision and the reason for the change and get an example 265 00:15:38,710 --> 00:15:46,240 of what I'm talking about in terms of awkward word choice words that are similar to each other but convey 266 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:47,410 the wrong meaning. 267 00:15:47,830 --> 00:15:52,540 Again, look at the example, the revision, and the reason for the change. 268 00:15:52,540 --> 00:15:54,340 So you can understand what that means. 269 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:59,020 Words that convey finer shades of meaning. 270 00:15:59,980 --> 00:16:00,670 OC. 271 00:16:01,550 --> 00:16:05,450 This again, this is where it gets a little bit more more technical. 272 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:07,500 But look here. 273 00:16:07,500 --> 00:16:14,970 Previously, a substantial number of patients with HCP were defined as having previously a substantial 274 00:16:14,970 --> 00:16:25,830 number of patients with HCP or diagnosed as having again, we're defined as having is not really stylistically 275 00:16:25,830 --> 00:16:28,380 contextually correct. 276 00:16:29,070 --> 00:16:29,470 Right. 277 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:31,920 The word you should be using is diagnosed. 278 00:16:32,010 --> 00:16:40,650 Now what I'm talking about are the things that make a difference between somebody that gets an intermediate 279 00:16:40,650 --> 00:16:47,280 level score right, or a mid range score and somebody that gets a really high level score. 280 00:16:47,550 --> 00:16:50,100 These are the kind of things that make a difference. 281 00:16:50,820 --> 00:16:54,270 And some of you are not seeing the all these things I'm talking about. 282 00:16:54,570 --> 00:17:01,200 These are the kind of things that people are doing that are scoring on the upper scale of the rubric. 283 00:17:02,250 --> 00:17:08,460 If you're not able to do these things I'm talking about and do these things consistently, you're going 284 00:17:08,460 --> 00:17:12,270 to have a little bit of trouble scoring on the upper scale of the rubric. 285 00:17:14,340 --> 00:17:14,720 Right. 286 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:22,420 So if you want to learn more about avoiding mistakes, right, you can get more help. 287 00:17:22,430 --> 00:17:23,810 There's an attachment. 288 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:29,090 And if you follow that attachment, there's a link to a grammar diagnostic test. 289 00:17:29,360 --> 00:17:38,210 You can take that grammar diagnostic test and you can learn a lot more about your grammar issues. 290 00:17:38,210 --> 00:17:46,070 And also after you take that diagnostic test, they give you rule advice on how to correct your grammar 291 00:17:46,070 --> 00:17:47,030 mistakes. 292 00:17:48,110 --> 00:17:51,800 So I hope this is I hope this was helpful for you. 293 00:17:53,560 --> 00:18:02,290 Because I talk a lot about your your general English needs to really match your skills that you're learning 294 00:18:02,290 --> 00:18:03,690 in the course, right? 295 00:18:03,700 --> 00:18:06,820 So I just wanted to mention these things briefly. 296 00:18:06,820 --> 00:18:10,060 This is not a general English course, right? 297 00:18:10,060 --> 00:18:15,850 I focus more on the strategies and tactics you need for the exam, but I just wanted to mention some 298 00:18:15,850 --> 00:18:21,400 of these things because these are issues that come up that some of you need to really go out and do 299 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:24,340 some more investigation and correct within your writing. 300 00:18:24,940 --> 00:18:26,140 So take care.