10-week Curriculum

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Introduction

Spelling List

Word Choice List

Verbs

Parts

1. Lexical
2. Auxiliary

Types

1. Transitive
2. Intransitive
3. Linking

Verbals

1. Gerunds
2. Participles
3. Infinitives

Nouns

1. Subject
2. Direct object
3. Indirect object
4. Object of the preposition
5. Object of the verbal
6. Predicate Nominative

Pronouns

1. Personal
2. Relative
3. Indefinite
4. Demonstrative
5. Interrogative
6. Reflexive

Adjectives

1. Descriptive
2. Limiting
3. Predicate Adjective

Adverbs

Prepositions

1. Adv. vs. Prep.

Conjunctions

1. Coordinating
2. Subordinating
3. Correlative
4. Conjunctive adverbs
5. Prep. vs Conj.

Phrases

1. prepositional
2. participial
3. gerund
4. infinitive
5. appositives

Clauses

1. Independent
2. Dependent

Subject/verb agreement

1. always singular nouns
2. always plural pronouns
3. singular or plural
4. pronoun – antecedent agreement

Case

1. nominative
2. objective
3. possessive
4. possessive nouns

Punctuation

1. comma
2. semi-colon
3. colon
4. dash
5. hyphen
6. quotation marks

Spelling Rules

Goals

1. Clarity
2. Conciseness
3. Accuracy