The Grammar Guide
    In doing my grammar guide I learned alot about how sentences are transformed into interragatives.  There are many different ways and they seem to depend on two elements:  the verb and what type of response the question expects.  I have discussed the technicallities in my grammar guide, so I won't go into them here.  I realized there is a lot to forming a question and I glad that I now do it unconciously.  I think what I have learned about interrogatives will better able me to explain to my students why questions are formed the way they are.  The process of writing the grammar guide also exposed me to resources I didn't know exsisted.  I didn't know, for example, that there were so many quides to the English language.  I thought there were just English textbooks.  Knowing about the available resources allows me to recommend particular books to students who are doing research.  Since I will be a teacher, I intend to do this alot.
 

The Editing Project
    The editing project was one of the most difficult things I have ever done--except for quitting smoking and learning Spanish.  I thought I knew a little about things like punctuation and spelling and word usuage, but this project gave me a work out.  It was hard enough finding existing errors, like an obvious spelling error, but finding the errors that were not so obvious, like whether or not to use a comma after and introductory prepositional phrase, was even more challenging.  My editing project had very little spelling errors.  I only found one word usage error.  I did find quite a few comma and semi-colon errors, especially after the word "however" when it links two independent clauses. I also found some errors in the use of quotation marks.  It seems common to put quotation marks around words like "Model-T", but I could not find a rule that said you should do this.  I have done this many times; I learned at least one new rule.  I don't think I would like a job as an editor, it's too much work.