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Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)
Sentence Structure
Grade:
6th Grade
Standard:
6.10.D
Description:
(D) edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:
complete complex sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments;
consistent, appropriate use of verb tenses;
conjunctive adverbs;
prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb agreement;
pronouns, including relative;
subordinating conjunctions to form complex sentences and correlative conjunctions such as either/or and neither/nor;
capitalization of proper nouns, including abbreviations, initials, acronyms, and organizations;
punctuation marks, including commas in complex sentences, transitions, and introductory elements; and
correct spelling, including commonly confused terms such as its/it's, affect/effect, there/their/they're, and to/two/too;
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6th Grade Writing - Sentence Structure Lesson
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SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT
SINGULAR
subjects —
SINGULAR
verbs
PLURAL
subjects —
PLURAL
verbs
Example:
Example:
OTHER SUBJECT-VERB RULES
Rule #1
—
Compound subjects that are connected by the coordinating conjunction
and
are considered
plural
.
Example:
Rule #2
—
For compound subjects that are connected by the coordinating conjunctions
or
and/or
nor
, the verb will agree with the subject
closest
to it.
Example:
Example:
Rule #3
—
Collective nouns
will usually act as
singular
nouns when used as the subject of a clause or sentence.
Example:
Rule #4.1
—
Some
indefinite pronouns
are always
singular
while others are always
plural
.
one,
anyone
,
anybody
,
anything
,
another
, either, neither, each, little, less, much
Example:
both, few, many, others, and several
Example:
Rule #4.2
—
Some
indefinite pronouns
can be either
singular
or
plural
depending on what they refer to.
all, any, more, most, none, and some
Example:
None
of the
pies
that Marisol baked last night
remain
after the party.
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