On-Blog Quiz

        The Hacker Site helped me to learn about clear sentences, word choice, grammar, punctuations, grammar basics and others. All of these exercises were really helpful to me. It helped me too basically to learn about the word choice. This exercise also helped me to get rid of the too many words used in the same sentence to explain the same thing. For the first example Sammy had an attention span longer than that of other students. Instead of than that I could use needed which could make the sentence easier to understand. The other exercise I could think that really helped me was using of an active "be" verb. For example several agents at Council Travel could speak English. The verb could speak used expressed the main idea of the sentence. The other one that really helped me is the use of punctuations. There were many exercises that really helped me to use the semicolons, colons, apostrophes, the use and misuse of the commas, quotation and the punctuation marks. The use and misuse of the commas in a sentence for example- “Because it rained all Labor day, our picnic was rather soggy”. The comma is correctly used after the introductory clause. The misuse of the comma in this sentence would be if I used the comma after the word because. These were the basic things I learned from the exercise that really helped me.