Sunday, 17 March 2013

Grammar for Everyone!

Dear Classes

I have been reviewing Errors of Concord with my Grade 10 classes but here is a review of it for everyone.

An error of concord is when you create a sentence that grammatically disagrees with itself:
"He are a student." "Are" is the verb that should be used with "we, you, they" not "he."
Our biggest problem with concord is the following sentence: "There's many prizes to be won!"
"There's" is "There IS," "is" is the verb form used for the singular "he/she/it" but many prizes are precisely that: MANY prizes. So your sentence is not in concord with itself - it grammatically suggests a single prize but the words suggest many prizes.

The upshot is that you make no sense - oh dear!

Here are two songs that have errors of concord, can you identify them?





Here is a video imitating the Timbaland video.
Parody is "an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect"

Satire is "the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues"

These definitions are courtesy of: http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/

Is this video a parody or a satire?

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