Standard(s):
[ELA2021] (3) 36 : 36. Demonstrate knowledge of the rules of standard English grammar including punctuation, capitalization, sentence formation, and spelling appropriate for third grade.
a. Use articles a, an, and the correctly.
b. Identify the role of a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, and conjunction within a sentence and explain the type of the information it conveys.
c. Form plural nouns, verbs, and possessives, including irregular plural nouns and verbs.
d. Use simple abbreviations, including days of the week, months of the year, titles, units of metric and customary measurement, street names, and state names.
[ELA2021] (4) 39 : 39. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage.
a. Use relative pronouns who, whose, which, and that, relative adverbs where, when, and how, and irregular possessive nouns.
b. Form and use the progressive verb tenses.
Examples: I was walking, I am walking
c. Use modal auxiliaries to convey various conditions.
Examples: can, may, must
[ELA2021] (5) 39 : 39. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage in writing.
a. Evaluate the usage of pronouns for the proper case.
Examples: subjective, objective, possessive
b. Identify inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person.
c. Use varied pronouns and their antecedents correctly in composing and revising writing.
d. Use subject-verb agreement correctly when composing and revising writing.
e. Use verb tenses to convey various times, sequences, states, and conditions.
f. Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense, including subject-verb agreement.
g. Use perfect verb tenses to compose and revise writing.
h. Use correlative conjunctions correctly when composing and revising writing.
