Standard(s):
[ELA2021] (8) 20 : 20. Produce writing that shows a command of standard English grammar, usage, and mechanics.
a. Construct verbals (gerunds, participles, and infinitives) in pieces of writing, including isolated sentences, paragraphs, and essays.
b. Compose writing using verbs in active and passive voice to establish mood.
c. Revise their own writing for correct mechanics with a focus on commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, colons, and semicolons.
d. Construct simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas.
e. Form and use verbs in context in the indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, and subjunctive moods.
f. Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense.