Grammar and Written Narration

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  • October 7, 2014 at 3:16 pm
    artcmomto3
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    My 10 y/o has done some light grammar in the past (EFTTC 1 and most of 2), so she has learned about punctuation, capitalization, quotations, etc.  Today she gave her first written narration.  I was pleased with the content of it.  However, she has a number of grammatical errors.  Should I just ignore them for now since this was about narration and not grammar?  Or should I select one or two things for her to correct?

    Here is what she wrote:

    John 2:1-12

    A wedding was in Cana, and Jesus was invited. as well as His mother, Mary. And the wine ran out. Mary told the servants, “Do what ever He (the Lord) tells you.” and when He came and there we’re six stone 20-30 Gallons jug and he said to them “fill these jugs with water.” and so they did. And when they brought the water the master tasted it, it was wine! and he told the bride and the groom he said “you have served the best wind until now.”

    October 7, 2014 at 4:55 pm
    ServingwithJoy
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    I would choose to talk to her about not starting a sentence with ‘and’. Just by correcting that, she will resolve many of the grammatical issues here. She did a great job of capturing the feeling of the passage!

    October 7, 2014 at 6:20 pm
    Monica
    Participant

    Fantastic narration!

    I agree that if you just correct “and” at the beginning of sentences many things will already be resolved.

    October 8, 2014 at 1:21 pm
    artcmomto3
    Participant

    Thanks!  I thought she did a great job on her narration too.  She has not learned about not starting a sentence with “and”, so I will go over that with her.  Thanks for the feedback!

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