1/12/12

January Blahs

I understand that for some people homophones are confusing; you know: two, to, and too, or their, there, and they're. I have made those errors myself at times. But I have never understood people confusing "since" and "sense." They aren't homophones unless you mispronounce one of the two words. Anybody know what regional accent pronounces "since" as "sense?" Must be around here, because my students make this mistake on occasion. Anyway... as always, these are from actual student work and my comments are in (   ).

- Huck humbles himself up and apologizes.
- ... teen behavior is different upon good and bad aspects of teen life. (I'll take your word for it.)
- Sense the economy is so bad inflammation has gone up. (You got that right!)
- Google began the project by searching for world renounced engineers. (They wanted the best of the worst?)
- Jim's character is developed majorly through the novel. (I can't believe spell-check had nothing to say about that one.)
- The crime or problem that Holmes is trying to solve is which they don't yet know that the true crime that has been committed. (I am teaching a detective fiction class; I need one to figure out this sentence.)
- She sleep through the hole night.
- The RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company was band from TV advertising.
- Huck makes the ultimate decision on wither to save Jim.
- Huck learns that Jim has feelings that can be hurt when he realizes that his feelings can be hurt.
- As the novel progressives...
- As their friendship strengtheneds...
- TIG welding requires good hand I coordination.
- Today Americans have extremely busy and up pace lives.
- From begging to end...
- Back up cameras on cars can be very helpful for drivers that have a hard time parrell parking.
- Today has grown...
- People feel that women in college are being taken advantage of because of their financial venerability.
- Say you are with a person that bananas are usually yellow. (I'll say it, but it still won't make sense.)
- Sanity is the state of being sane. (Redundancy is the state of being redundant.)

Good times!

J