5.11.D

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) collective nouns;


• (iv) adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms;


• (v) conjunctive adverbs;


• (vi) prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb agreement;


• (vii) pronouns, including indefinite;


• (viii) subordinating conjunctions to form complex sentences;


• (ix) capitalization of abbreviations, initials, acronyms, and organizations;


• (x) italics and underlining for titles and emphasis and punctuation marks, including quotation marks in dialogue and commas in compound and complex sentences; and


• (xi) correct spelling of words with grade-appropriate orthographic patterns and rules and high-frequency words; and