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Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)
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Grade: |
4th Grade |
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4.20.A* |
Description: |
use and understand the function of the following parts of speech in the context of reading, writing, and speaking:
- verbs (irregular verbs);
- nouns (singular/plural, common/proper);
- adjectives (e.g., descriptive, including purpose: sleeping bag, frying pan) and their comparative and superlative forms (e.g., fast, faster, fastest);
- adverbs (e.g., frequency: usually, sometimes; intensity: almost, a lot);
- prepositions and prepositional phrases to convey location, time, direction, or to provide details;
- reflexive pronouns (e.g., myself, ourselves);
- correlative conjunctions (e.g., either/or, neither/nor); and
- use time-order transition words and transitions that indicate a conclusion;
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Standard: |
4.11.D |
Description: |
edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:
- (i) complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments;
- (ii) past tense of irregular verbs;
- (iii) singular, plural, common, and proper nouns;
- (iv) adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms;
- (v) adverbs that convey frequency and adverbs that convey degree;
- (vi) prepositions and prepositional phrases;
- (vii) pronouns, including reflexive;
- (viii) coordinating conjunctions to form compound subjects, predicates, and sentences;
- (ix) capitalization of historical periods, events, and documents; titles of books; stories and essays; and languages, races, and nationalities;
- (x) punctuation marks, including apostrophes in possessives, commas in compound sentences, and quotation marks in dialogue; and
- (xi) correct spelling of words with grade-appropriate orthographic patterns and rules and high-frequency words; and
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 4th Grade Writing - Parts of Speech - Mixed Lesson
Parts of Speech
Words are classified into parts of speech based on their functions in a sentence.
- Nouns
- words that name persons, places, things, animals, or ideas
Nouns are the subjects of sentences or the objects of verbs or prepositions.
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Nouns can be singular or plural.
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friends (plural)
Nouns can be common or proper.
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Fluffy (proper)
- Pronouns
- words that fill in for nouns
Pronouns can be subjects or objects in sentences.
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me, you, him, her, it, us, them (objects)
Pronouns can be possessive.
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mine, yours, his, hers, ours, theirs
Pronouns can be reflexive.
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myself, yourself, herself, himself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves
- Verbs
- action or state of being words
Verbs change form based on tense.
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I measured carefully. (past)
I will measure carefully. (future)
Verbs agree with subjects of sentences.
Singular subjects agree with singular verbs.
Plural subjects agree with plural verbs.
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They are nice. (plural)
Verbs are the main parts of the predicates of sentences. |
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