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English Grammar Skills (Grade 8)
The course provides thorough coverage of grammar, usage, and mechanics including:
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nouns—common, proper, singular, plural, concrete, abstract, collective, compound, possessive, nouns (special cases)—titles, direct address
- dependent and independent clauses, and clauses that act like nouns
- interjections;
- verbs—action, state-of-being, phrases, inking, auxiliary and main, transitive, intransitive, tenses (present, past, future), irregular, participles, perfect tenses, progressive tenses, perfect progressive tenses; using have and has; lie and lay, rise and raise, sit and set;
- noun/verb agreement,
- conjunctions, coordinating conjunctions
- adjectives—predicate, proper, articles, comparative and superlative,
- pronouns
- adverbs—affirmative and negative, groups, comparative and superlative;
- prepositions—tricky, phrases, phrases that act like adjectives and adverbs,
- analyzing phrases; verbal—infinitives, split infinitives, phrases, participles, gerunds
- capitalization—proper nouns and new sentences, dialogues and titles, proper adjectives and “I,” poetry, calendar, letters and outlines;
- special words—here and there, every and many
- simple, compound, compound subjects and agreement, and complex sentence structure.
- parts of sentences, subjects and predicates, complete subject, direct objects, predicate nominatives, indirect objects, objects of prepositions,
- punctuation—end, commas, appositives, commas that set apart certain words, quotation marks, apostrophes, colons,
semicolons; word emphasis—italics, underlines
- word-building—roots, prefixes that show negation, time, quantity, direction, position; suffixes that form nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs; comparative and superlative suffixes
Available for this course: Full Course Kit (includes print Chapter Texts, Activity Books, and Teacher Resource Kit as well as a free digital download of the TRK). The Chapter Texts, Activity Books and Teacher Resource Kit can also be purchased separately.
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