Recently found you and i have binged watch your Police report writing videos.....i can tell you as a Police Detective, your videos have helped me....going to purchase your book ....thank you, they should play your videos in the Police academy....
Thank you, taking the NTN police frontline test in a week. I enjoyed your videos, very clear to the point. This will help me with the report writing portion on writing a police report report on a 10 minute video..
Thank you for all the great tips!!! I have learned a lot from your videos, and I am confident that I will score well during my police written exam tomorrow.
Even Private Security Officer's could learn a lot from your videos. I recently had to rebuke a S/O for stating a person was drunk in a report with no qualifiers to support the statement.
You know why police officers wished they had better grammar and writing skills right? The same reason I am going broke! Teachers in this country do not give a damn about “Our” real #education! I’ve had one teacher say about the other, “that teacher should have been fired”! 😂🔧💰 But they still keep don’t give a damn! Not enough teachers like you out their beautiful!
Except for the fact she's dead wrong for all intents and purposes of the English language. Sentences in English do not always begin with a noun cognate. For example the first word of the first sentence in this post (which is grammatically correct by the way) is a transitive verb, not a noun. The second sentence of this post begins with "For" which is a preposition. The third sentence of this post begins with an article Adjective (the word "the"). In fact, We can't use He/She (pronouns) at all in a written sentence (and still make sense) unless we have previously declared a personal noun to attach to the pronoun. (the exception to this rule is "I" sentences). Rather, she's forgetting that in English any word that modifies the noun usually comes before the noun, and any word that modifies a verb usually comes before the verb, with the exception of prepositional phrases which usually come after a verb. Commas do one of the following in non-fiction writing (don't use a comma unless you're doing one of these): 1. Separate independent clauses of a sentence which can grammatically stand alone and still make sense. (e.g. Mrs. Reynolds walked down the street, and then turned the corner.) 2. Lists of things or lists of constructs. (e.g. you should eat apples, pears, and bananas on Sunday.) 3. distinguishing appositives (e.g. Her favorite teacher, Ms. Reynolds, ate a taco on Sunday) 4. Set off a direct address (e.g. Hey, You! Yeah, You. The idiot with the badge who can't write reports without errors in grammar. Yeah, You.) 5. Set off a non-restrictive clause. (e.g. The children needed new shoes, which were expensive.) 6. Set off a introductory clause. (e.g. When Tom was ready to iron, his cat tripped on the cord.) 7. Set off quotations. (e.g. Mary Said, "I dislike concerts". "I dislike concerts", Mary Said.) 8. Dates, addresses, etc. - We all should already know the conventions for these. Semicolons have but one function (unless you're extremely careful) - which is to allow you to omit the word "and". normally it is better to use two sentences as opposed to using a semicolon when we want our writing to be clear and unambiguous, such that we avoid them like the plague in non-fiction writing.
Hi, "John"! I never said that all sentences begin with a noun! Many sentences start with "but," "and," "yet," and the other FANBOYS words, for example. I said that one way to spot a sentence is to see if it starts with a person, place, or thing. Similarly one way to spot an extra idea is to see if it starts with a word that's NOT a person place or thing. It's a handy rule of thumb that my students have used for decades. There's no need to learn a lot of gobbledygook about dependent clauses, independent clauses, prepositional phrases, and so on. I never use those terms. It sounds like you have a solid background in grammar, and that works for you. Great! You might be interested in the way I teach comma rules. You have eight rules. I have three. You can see my handout at this link: bit.ly/EasyCommas. (I don't teach commas with dates, addresses, and lists - students always know how to do those already.) Semicolons join two sentences. Change the period to a semicolon and lower-case the next word (unless it needs a capital). The store is closed. We'll go back tomorrow. The store is closed; we'll go back tomorrow. Semicolons are a great way to show off a little while keeping a sentence simple and readable. I recommend using them sparingly.
