Grammar II: Common errors

Posts on Thursdays (Grades 5+)

Course Objective: To teach the basic elements of strong sentence structure to help students build powerful paragraphs and compositions.

Course Description: Grammar II is the second in a series of three courses designed to teach or review important elements of language arts. This class will teach important skills needed to understand proper sentence structure and for both written and spoken language.

$175

Syllabus:

Week 1: Phrases: gerund, preposition, verb, participle, and infinitive

Clauses: dependent and independent

Week 2: Sentence Structure: simple, compound, and complex

Importance of varying sentence structure

Week 3: Subjects: simple and complex

Subject/Verb Agreement: compound subjects & plural verbs

Week 4: Predicates: simple, compound, and complete

Objects: direct and indirect (object complements)

Week 5: Sentence Forms: declarative/imperative/exclamatory/interrogative

Mood: indicative, imperative, subjunctive

Week 6: Who vs. Whom

Apostrophes in contractions and possession

Week7: Writing a series

Omitting extra words and repetition

Week 8: Editing and proofreading