On the Diana Hacker website the grammar exercises were very helpful. The help you learn step by step about grammar. The grammar exercises included active vs passive verbs, parallelism, needed words, mixed constructions, misplaced modifiers, dangling modifiers, shifts, choppy sentences, and subordination. All these grammar exercises was a great review from high school. It helped me remember something that I forgot or just don't think about anymore.
The three things that I learn were subordination, needed words, and dangling modifiers.
An example of subordination is, the highly specialized medical training, called a "residency," usually takes four year to complete. This is a good example because helps show that the idea is being emphasized and the subject and the verb are independent.
Needed words helped me understand that something we add words while writing that we don't necessary need, they are just fillers and other time we don't have enough words to get our point across. The sentence flows better when there are certain words filled in or taken out.
Before today I've never heard of dangling modifiers. I found this very interesting. It was helpful when writing that the opening statement doesn't just dangle that it flows together and describes what is happening. An example is, reaching the heart, the surgeon performed a bypass on several blocked arteries. In this sentence is shows who's doing the action and not leaving it open ended.
Overall, I found that this was very helpful review with grammar.
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