Correct Sentence Structure and Fluency | Skills on Demand

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 Correct Sentence Structure and Fluency | Skills on Demand

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Type: Interactive/Game

Overview:

Good language and grammar practices are essential in writing for schoolwork or on the job. Proper language use will help to clearly communicate your ideas. In this lesson, students will focus on correct sentences, subject-verb agreement, and other aspects of grammar and language.

Content Standard(s):
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 6
15. Identify the conventions of standard English grammar and usage in published texts.

a. Identify subject-verb agreement when interrupted by a prepositional phrase, with inverted word order, and with indefinite pronouns as subjects.

b. Evaluate pronoun usage for number and case.

Examples: subjective, objective, possessive

c. Identify common errors in pronoun usage.

Examples: person, number, ambiguous antecedents
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 7
17. Identify the conventions of standard English grammar and usage in writing.

a. Identify subject-verb agreement with compound subjects joined by correlative and coordinating conjunctions and with collective nouns when verb form depends on the rest of the sentence.

b. Identify the usage of simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex statements and questions to signal differing relationships among ideas in a text.

c. Evaluate the functions of phrases and clauses in general and their function in specific sentences.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 8
16. Examine the use of conventions of standard English grammar and usage in writing.

a. Identify gerunds, participles, infinitives, and clauses.

b. Analyze the effects of active and passive voice and shifts in verb tense.

c. Explain how using simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex statements and questions signals differing relationships among ideas in a text.
Tags: Complex Sentence, Compound Sentence, Sentence Structure, Simple Sentence, SubjectVerb Agreement, Varied Sentences
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Author: Jessica Byrd