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Common Core Standards
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8th Grade |
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CC.1.4.8.F |
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Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar,usage, capitalization, punctuation,and spelling.
- E08.D.1.1.1 - Explain the function of verbals (i.e., gerunds, participles, and infinitives) in general and their function in particular sentences.
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E08.D.1.1.2 - Form and use verbs in the active and passive voice.
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E08.D.1.1.3 - Form and use verbs in the indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, and subjunctive mood.
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E08.D.1.1.4 - Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb voice and mood.*
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E08.D.1.1.5 - Place phrases and clauses within a sentence, recognizing and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers.*
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E08.D.1.1.6 - Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person.*
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E08.D.1.1.7 - Recognize and correct vague pronouns (i.e., ones with unclear or ambiguous antecedents).*
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E08.D.1.1.8 - Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense.*
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E08.D.1.1.9 - Produce complete sentences, recognizing and correcting inappropriate fragments and run-on sentences.*
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E08.D.1.1.10 - Correctly use frequently confused words (e.g., to, too, two; there, their, they’re).*
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E08.D.1.1.11 - Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.*
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E08.D.1.2.1 - Use punctuation (i.e., comma, ellipsis, and dash) to indicate a pause or break.
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E08.D.1.2.2 -Use an ellipsis to indicate an omission.
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E08.D.1.2.3 - Spell correctly.
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E08.D.1.2.4 - Use punctuation (i.e., commas, parentheses, and dashes) to set off nonrestrictive/parenthetical elements.*
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E08.D.1.2.5 - Use punctuation to separate items in a series.*
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CC.1.4.8.L |
Description: |
Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar,usage, capitalization, punctuation,and spelling.
- E08.D.1.1.1 - Explain the function of verbals (i.e., gerunds, participles, and infinitives) in general and their function in particular sentences.
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E08.D.1.1.2 - Form and use verbs in the active and passive voice.
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E08.D.1.1.3 - Form and use verbs in the indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, and subjunctive mood.
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E08.D.1.1.4 - Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb voice and mood.*
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E08.D.1.1.5 - Place phrases and clauses within a sentence, recognizing and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers.*
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E08.D.1.1.6 - Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person.*
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E08.D.1.1.7 - Recognize and correct vague pronouns (i.e., ones with unclear or ambiguous antecedents).*
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E08.D.1.1.8 - Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense.*
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E08.D.1.1.9 - Produce complete sentences, recognizing and correcting inappropriate fragments and run-on sentences.*
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E08.D.1.1.10 - Correctly use frequently confused words (e.g., to, too, two; there, their, they’re).*
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E08.D.1.1.11 - Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.*
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E08.D.1.2.1 - Use punctuation (i.e., comma, ellipsis, and dash) to indicate a pause or break.
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E08.D.1.2.2 -Use an ellipsis to indicate an omission.
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E08.D.1.2.3 - Spell correctly.
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E08.D.1.2.4 - Use punctuation (i.e., commas, parentheses, and dashes) to set off nonrestrictive/parenthetical elements.*
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E08.D.1.2.5 - Use punctuation to separate items in a series.*
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CC.1.4.8.R |
Description: |
Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar,usage, capitalization, punctuation,and spelling.
- E08.D.1.1.1 - Explain the function of verbals (i.e., gerunds, participles, and infinitives) in general and their function in particular sentences.
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E08.D.1.1.2 - Form and use verbs in the active and passive voice.
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E08.D.1.1.3 - Form and use verbs in the indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, and subjunctive mood.
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E08.D.1.1.4 - Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb voice and mood.*
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E08.D.1.1.5 - Place phrases and clauses within a sentence, recognizing and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers.*
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E08.D.1.1.6 - Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person.*
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E08.D.1.1.7 - Recognize and correct vague pronouns (i.e., ones with unclear or ambiguous antecedents).*
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E08.D.1.1.8 - Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense.*
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E08.D.1.1.9 - Produce complete sentences, recognizing and correcting inappropriate fragments and run-on sentences.*
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E08.D.1.1.10 - Correctly use frequently confused words (e.g., to, too, two; there, their, they’re).*
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E08.D.1.1.11 - Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.*
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E08.D.1.2.1 - Use punctuation (i.e., comma, ellipsis, and dash) to indicate a pause or break.
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E08.D.1.2.2 -Use an ellipsis to indicate an omission.
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E08.D.1.2.3 - Spell correctly.
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E08.D.1.2.4 - Use punctuation (i.e., commas, parentheses, and dashes) to set off nonrestrictive/parenthetical elements.*
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E08.D.1.2.5 - Use punctuation to separate items in a series.*
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ELA.8.C.3.1 |
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Follow the rules of standard English grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling appropriate to grade level. |
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8.10.D |
Description: |
edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:
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complete complex sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments;
- consistent, appropriate use of verb tenses and active and passive voice;
- prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb agreement;
- pronoun-antecedent agremment;
- correct capitalization;
- punctuation, including commas in nonrestrictive phrases and clauses, semicolons, colons, and parentheses; 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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 8th Grade Writing - Sentence Structure Lesson
SENTENCE STRUCTURE
SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT- ❋ Singular subjects agree with singular forms of verbs.
- ❋ Plural subjects agree with plural forms of verbs.
All subjects and verbs of all clauses in a sentence must agree.
Special Rules for Subject-Verb Agreement |
⚜ RULE #1: Some indefinite pronouns are always singular.
Singular Indefinite Pronouns
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Each | Everyone | Either |
Someone | Neither | Anyone |
One | Nobody | No one |
Somebody
| Everybody
| Anybody
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⚜ RULE #2: Some indefinite pronouns can be singular or plural.
Most of the flowers were blooming.
All of the children were on the bus.
⚜ RULE #3: Compound subjects joined by "and" are plural.
Are the cat and the dog at the kennel today?
⚜ RULE #4: When two or more subjects are joined by "or" or "nor," the verb agrees with the subject closest to it.
- NOTE: The word neither is not an indefinite pronoun subject in this sentence; instead, it is part of the correlative conjunction pair, neither - nor.
⚜ RULE #5: The words "here" and "there" are not subjects. Subjects of sentences starting with either of these words are usually after the verbs.
Here is my completed homework assignment.
⚜ RULE #6: Collective nouns are usually singular.
The enemy's army was defeated.
⚜ RULE #7: Expressions of time, money, measurement, and weight are often singular.
Two dollars is the new price per student.
⚜ RULE #8: Non-count nouns are singular.
Mathematics was my favorite subject in middle school.
❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ Go to the next page to practice editing sentences for subject-verb agreement. |
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