To Know!!
Seven weeks into my first Greek class at school, and if ever there was a way to a humble someone, Greek is the way to humble anyone. It is challenging not just to learn another language but to realize that my command of the English language is pretty sorry, too. Ha-ha. I admit, whatever I understand of my native tongue is more passive and comes from years of writing while in prison. Before Greek, I could have told you what a noun was, but I would not have been able to tell you the difference between an adjective and an adverb off the top of my head. The understanding that I had was just in my brain, mixed in with all the bad habits I picked up over the years from sheer laziness and texting. But that made me wonder. As important as understanding our language is for writing business emails, newsletters, and policies in our workplaces, how many of us have a real command of the language we use? Off the top of your head: What is a prepositional phrase? When is it appropriate to use a semic