Class Reflection for February 19th

We began the class in small groups and each group analyzed certain grammatical aspects from the sentence :

The hungry linguist quickly ate a delicious sandwich before class.

My group was given the task to analyze the prepositions and the verbs in the sentence. I liked this task because prepositions have always freaked me out a little bit. I think it is because I always use to forget what the heck a preposition is. Now I came up with something to help me remember. The "pre" means the word usually goes before a noun. The "position" indicates the purpose of the word. Prepositions often indicate the location of the noun. I hope that is correct because that is how I have been remembering the meaning of the word.

We then joined the other groups and presented our findings. My group made me present because I hate my voice and they said I haven't spoken much in the class. Well, I presented and I hope it went ok.

After that, Lillian, Leping, and Ling discussed the exercise that was due which involved studying the Chinese language and how it works. That exercise was so fun and can I just say I felt really cool completing it in the library at school. I was secretly hoping people thought I knew a complex language such as Chinese. (yes, I am a little bit of a nerd) Anyone the way the exercise was explained was very helpful and I realized that I got pretty much every other question wrong on the worksheet but I doubt the point was to get them all right. I think we were suppose to get used to looking at a language with a scientific and methodical eye.