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A8--Polishing--Polishing:Grammar--Classification of Nouns
Unit polish summary
1. Proper and Common Nouns:
a. Capitalization
1. It is necessary to recognize the
difference
between proper and common nouns
to understand
when to capitalize a noun.
2. COUNT NOUNS, MASS NOUNS, CONCRETE NOUNS, and
ABSTRACT
NOUNS.
a. Verb agreement
1. We learn to recognize count and mass nouns
so that we can have them agree with verbs in
number.
3. Recognizing Other kinds of nouns--Abstract and
concrete
NOuns
a. Capitalization
b. Verb agreement
A9--Polishing/ Grammar--Singular and Plural Nouns and
Possessive
Nouns
1. Singular, plural and plural nouns
a.Spelling
1.Rules
2. possessive nouns
a.spelling
A10--PRONOUNS
1. Recognition of Pronouns
a. Sentence variety
1. Pronouns are used to avoid repetition of nouns
2. The difference between subject pronouns and object
pronouns
a.usage
3. Possessive Pronouns
a.spelling
b.usage
4. Recognizing ABSOLUTE POSSESSIVE PRONOUN
a. Sentence variety
b.removing excess words from sentences
c. Usage
5. Recognizing the DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUN.
a.removing excess words from sentences
b. Usage
6. Recognizing the INDEFINITE PRONOUN
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a. Usage
b. Subject/verb agreement
A11--PRONOUN ANTECEDENTS
1. Recognizing the pronoun antecendent
A12--PRONOUN AMBIGUITY/PRONOUNS AFTER INCOMPLETE CONSTRUCTIONS
1. Recognizibg pronoun ambiguity
a. Sentence clarity
1. Pronoun
ambiguity through
ambiguous
antecendents
2. INCOMPLETE CONSTRUCTION
a. Usage
b. sentence clarity
B10-Rewriting / Polishing the Draft--Paragraph Transition
1. Paragraph Review and Order
a.Topic Sentence
b.Paragraph Order
1.Time order
2.Space order
2. Student exercises
B11-Rewriting /Polishing the Draft--Verbs, verb tenses, and
verb
phrases
1. Two kinds of verb actions
a.Mental action
b.Body action
2. Main verbs and helping verbs
a.How they are used in a sentence to make verb phrases
3. Verb phrases
a.How they are used in a sentence
4. Verb tenses-past, present, and future
a.Different tenses change time order of sentence
b.Formation of the tenses by adding endings, etc.
5. Linking verbs
a.Similarity to helping verbs
b.Difference from
action verbs
6. Student exercises
B12-Polishing/ Irregular Verbs
1. Difference between regular and irregular verbs
a.Irregular verbs have irregular endings
2. Student exercises
B13-Polishing/More Common Irregular Verbs
1. Continuation of B12
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C8--REVISING/RULES FOR CAPITALIZATION
C9--REWRITING/REVIEWOF SOME PUNCTUATIONMARKS
C10--REWRITING/QUESTION MARK REVIEW
C11--REWRITING/POLISHING:SENDING A POST CARD AND
A FRIENDLY LETTER
C12--REWRITING/ADRESSING THE LETTER
D8--REWRITING/POLISHING/ADJECTIVES, ADVERBS,
AND COMPARISONS
D9--REWRITING/POLISH:SUBJECTS AND PREDICATES (LESSON)
E6--POLISHING/ THE SUBJECT--VERB SENTENCE PATTERN:
(LESSON) RECOGNIZING PATTERN ONE SENTENCES
E7--POLISHING/ SENTENCE PATTERN TWO--S-V-DO PATTERN
E8--POLISHING/ADING A DIRECT OBJECT TO S-V SENTENCES
E9--POLISHING/PREPOSITIONS, THE OBJECT OF THE
PREPOSITION, AND PREPOSITIONAL
PHRASES (LESSON) SENTENCE VARIETY
E10--POLISHING/RECOGNIZING ACTIVE AND PASSIVE
SENTENCES
E11--AVOID PASSIVE SENTENCES:(LESSON) REMOVING
EXTRA WORDS
F6--POLISHING/SENTENCE PATTERN THREE: S-LV-COMPLEMENT:
RECOGNIZING THIS PATTERN
F7--POLISHING (RECOGNIZING) THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
DIRECT OBJECTS SUBJECT AND COMPLEMENTS
F8--POLISHING/CONJUNCTIONS, COMPOUND SUBJECTS,
COMPOUND PREDICATES,A ND COMPOUND SENTENCES
(SENTENCE VARIETY)
F9--POLISHING/COMPOUND SENTENCES (SENTENCE VARIETY)
F10--POLISHING/COMPOUND SENTENCES CAN SAVE WORDS (
(REMOVING UNNECESSARY WORDS)
F11--POLISHING/RULES FOR USING COLONS AND SEMICOLONS
(RECOGNITION, SENTENCE VARIETY)
F12--POLISHING/SPELLING
G7--POLISHING/ADVERBS AND ADVERB PHRASES
(SENTENCE VARIETY)
G8--POLISHING/THE CLAUSE AND THE ADVERB CLAUSE
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(RECOGNIZING)
G9--POLISHING/ SUBORDINATORS AND SUBORDINATE CLAUSES
(RECOGNIZING)
G10--POLISHING/SUBORDINATING WITH THE RELATIVE PRONOUN
(SENTENCE VARIETY)
G11--POLISHING/PARTICPLES AND PARTICPAL PHRASES
(GRAMMAR, SENTENCE VARIETY, AND SENTENCE CLARITY)
G12--POLISHING/ USING WHO AND WHOM CORRECTLY (USAGE)
G13--POLISHING/APPOSITIVES: (SENTENCE VARIETY,
PUNCTUATION)
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