Sometimes grammatical mistakes can be spookier than the actual material in a journal article. Trade Halloween ghost story articles with a partner and look for mistakes in grammar while you are reading.
Post the grammatical error in a comment below. How does this mistake make you feel about the author and the information that is provided in the article?
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35 comments:
In this ghost story the author says "...then when I looked at me feet.." The sentence should be "..then when I looked at my feet.." Since the author made this carless mistake, it makes me think of the him in two ways. First this could just be a careless mistake that a was simply just looked over. Second the author is a young boy, so he is not as educated as normal authors. Meaning he could've thought it was right and since it is on a website there was no editing.
I grew up on a ranch when I was nine we moved to this ranch my grandfather had bought.
Correct: I grew up on a ranch. When I was nine, we moved to this ranch that my grandfather had bought.
This mistake lets me know that the author did not proofread his article after writing and he did not care about his work. This mistake also shows that the information might be false in the article.
The mistake in this ghost story is when the author says, "Corey, myself and Avalon went to my office..."
However this is not stated right, it should be, "Corey, Avalon, and I went to my office.."
The author of this ghost story seems like a careless man who does not care for punctuation. In every paragraph he does not put commas, instead he puts a few periods.
In the dialogue it says "I've gotta crack down now so i can get into med school."
i know they are young students but "gotta" isn't a word.
i know the author was being the character but "got to crack down would have been fine."
In this ghost article the author says "He two beds filled up..." The proper would should have been the, not he. This shows that the author did not proofread the article very well.
Original: Currently they live in his grandmother's house and then was also the house he was raised in with his mother and fathe
Corrected: Currently they live in his grandmother's house and that was also the house he was raised in with his mother and father
Original:So I was standing in the kitchen
Fixed: I was standing in the kitchen
Original: My friend's wife who is also sensitive to these things told me without even flinching one bit yeah,you just saw his dad's ghost.
Fixed: My friend's wife who is also sensitive to these things told me without even flinching one bit, "Yeah,you just saw his dad's ghost."
In Eric Krauss's ghost story it says, The girl's voice was heard on several more occasions, once on a June night before Joe's grandmother sufered a stroke, and again in November just before the old woman passed away. The author spelt suffered wrong. The author does not seem careless because he did not make another error and it is a very long article. He may have just been typing fast and made a mistake.
In this ghost story the author states "Mostly adult patients." The author could of combined the sentence before that and made it in to "On the 7th floor was the surgical patients but, mostly they were adult patients." The author was just writing little sentences when he could of made them longer and more interesting. Also "Mostly adult patients", isn't even a full sentence.
The author said, "i went to bed about the time 1:30 AM."
Correct: The author should have said, "I went to bed around 1:30 AM."
The mistake was the author used this sentences incorrectly. He did not make the sentence sound right. It was not used correctly.
In the ghost story, Adoani's Minions, the author states, "...I was on patrol and had just come back from the hospital where I had escorted a perp for stitches." The author meant to say prep, as in preparation. This reflects poorly on the author, displaying carelessness. By not editing a website article, silly mistakes like this happen.
In Brittany's story there were many verb tense errors. The author wrote in past tense and present tense, but it all should have been in past tense. Also, in the first paragraph the author wrote, "y sister and I have always been very close..." but he forgot to put the "m" there to make it "my". The story also had many unnecessary commas.`
The author most likely read over their story, but did not realize it was in different tenses or there were too many commas.
Mistake: Even the staff are merry at this haunted hotel in Baltimore appears more fun than spooky.
Correct: Even the staff are merry at this haunted hotel in Baltimore; it appears more fun than spooky.
It looks like the author forgot to put "I." It is only a typo.
when talking about a dog in this story the author said " she pulled on the lead both times." mistake was that he said the word lead instead of leash. this careless mistake shows me that this article was not well written making me believe that some random person wrote this and that it is not a true story.
In the article, "Demon in Plain Sight," there are many comma mistakes.
In one excerpt, it says, "My grandparents are very religious so this makes this story very scary for those who are also religious. When my dad was younger he lived with his parents in a house (obviously) but this was no ordinary house it was built on an Indian burial ground and a man committed suicide by hanging himself in the front lawn and they cut down that tree and built an addition over it."
It should have a comma after religious, after younger, after house, after house again, after and, after and and after and. The last sentence is a run-on. Even after reading only the first paragraph, it is obvious that the author was careless when he wrote it and he did not proofread. Also, the author seems to write as if he were a child even though he probably is older. The article was not checked over and without the proper commas, it does not make sense.
This makes me feel like the author did not care about what they were writing. Also, I feel like the author underestimated the intelligence of the person reading the article. Next time, the author should proofread what they write, and know the age group of the reader. If the author had an idea of an age group, the article would have been written on a higher level and appealed to more people.
Original: "75 years ago 3 teens were murderedin a old farm on Everett pl. The murders were never solved but the farmer/father hung him self on an old oak tree after coming home to find his 3 teen boys brutally murdered."
Correction: Original: "Seventy-five years ago, three teens were murdered in a old farm on Everett pl. The murders were never solved, but the farmer/father hung himself on an old oak tree after coming home to find his three teen boys brutally murdered."
Many basic grammatical mistakes were found, such as "him self." Also, the overall quality was poor, such as using numerical symbols for small numbers "like '3' instead of '3.'" These basic grammatical errors reflect on the content of the article.
In this ghost story is is all correct because is it a paper article in the new york times and they edit a million times to make sure that everything is correct. because it is in the paper, it seems like this really happened.
In James' story, the author wrote the following line: "My heart was racing, and I could not go another step with out resting."
In this sentence, with out should be put to without. It is one word not two.
This shows me that the author did not proofread and that he relied on the computer to check his work.
In the story the man says:
The cold spot and sometimes dark shadow in front of room 242 who we believe was the lady who shot herself there.
Fixed:
The cold spot and sometimes dark shadow in front of room 242, who we believe was the lady who shot herself there.
The author of the story left out commas and had some spelling errors. First, he said "After developing i noticed that picture was a double exposure and forgot about it." He left a comma after "developing." Also, he said "Yeas later I was looking through the old [hotos and looked at that one again." It should be "Years later, I was looking through the old photos and looked at that one again." Lastly, he said " Then recently it brought its' self back to me." It should be "Then, recently, it brought itself back to me."
The author of my story does not seem to check his work for grammar errors after completing. Another solution for these errors is sloppiness, he might not care about using commas. Also, he might not know how to use some words. For example, "Its' self." He does not know that the correct form is "itself", without apostrophes or spaces. These errors do not affect the information, though.
on the article it said "its the ghost of an a former civil war soldier" and it should be "It's the ghost of a former civil war soldier"
Ana M
In this ghost story the author writes".... me, David and Ed traveled down the 13 mile long road."
The correct way to write this would be:
... David, Ed and I traveled down the 13 mile long road
In this article, the author says, "The reality of ghosts is to far-fetched for some people." The author does not use the word "to correctly. It should say, " The reality of ghosts is too far-fetched for some people." The author probably made a careless mistake, or he does not know the rules of grammae
this story is about a girl that was a witch and was hunted down and burned to death. Now it is said when you say her name in front of a mirror she will appear and trap you inside that mirror. this is spooky because peoplesay it is true and also because no one wants to be stuck in a mirror.
I read Erica's ghost sighting story. There were no grammatical errors so that tells me that this was an official site and a reliable author. Some spooky stuff I read where a ghost is disappearing and reappearing in the middle of the road, someone or something saying "Go away!" in a cemetery, and someone feeling as if they were being choked then when the person wakes up there are red hand marks around their neck that last for a few days.
What the article said was "Virginia to strengthen the weakened Southern forces." It should say "Virginia to help strengthen the weakened Southern forces."
The premise of this article is that ghostly beings(human or otherwise) , dwell on the other side, and while there are garden varietygood ones there can sometimes. There are commas that were missing from the article.
In the Ghost story
original- The story takes place in Jacksonville and it is a scary story.
new- The story takes place in Jacksonville, and it is a scary story.
"And it has encouraged the 1000-member Society for Physical Research which fields reports of such things from all over the country."
Also it has encouraged the 1000-member Society for Physical Research which fields reports of such things from all over the country."
It shows me that authors does not really know how to start a sentence because you usually would not start a sentence with and, but and or.
"The premise of this article is that ghostly being (human or otherwise) dwell on the other side and while there are garden variety good ones, there can sometimes be bad ones."
It should be,
The premise of this article is that ghostly beings (human or otherwise), dwell on the other side, and while there are garden variety good ones, there can be bad ones.
This is a run on sentence and the author obviously did not go over it. This shows how bad a sentence can be without commas.
The premise of this article is that ghostly beings (humans or otherwise), dwell on the other side, and while there are garden variety good ones, there can sometimes be bad ones.
The author said "a year later my father left the family and this added unhappiness led to an escalation of the incidents"
It should be " a year later, my father left the family. This added unhappiness which led to an escalation of the incidents."
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