Adjectives and Adverbs

You know you have been listening in English class when.....

1.  You debate when you should use "good" and "well."
2.  You have a discussion over adjectives and adverbs at the dinner table.
3. You start correcting other people's grammar (but don't tell them to their face) and debate what is the correct way to say what they just said wrong.
4. You love to diagram sentences.

Megan and Courtney are both on a chapter on adjectives and adverbs right now. Courtney is learning about them for the first time, and she is really understanding the concepts. It helps a lot that Megan knows all about them, and we have daily discussions about what both girls are learning in English!

We debate "good" and "well" quite a bit in our family. "Well" is an adverb and describes a verb and "good" is an adjective and describes a noun. We have talked through many situations lately and have analyzed these two words almost too much! Even Christian tries to say which one he should use!

Matt keeps saying that he never learned any of this when he was in school. I remember learning grammar until about 8th grade, so I remember some of this. Neither one of us remembers diagramming sentences like these girls are doing. Even the public school kids do not diagram sentences. I think it is a great thing to do!

We also have discussions about when you should speak more informally and more formally. Things have gotten quite interesting around here lately!