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L 3.1 i
Standard: L 3.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English
grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
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Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.
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An understanding of language is essential for effective communication.
“The inclusion of language standards in their own strand should not be taken as an
indication that skills related to conventions, knowledge of language, and vocabulary are
unimportant to reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing; indeed, they are
inseparable from such contexts.”
Students must have a command of the grammar and usage of spoken and written
Standard English (nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, simple verb tenses,
subject/verb agreement).
Students must be able to explain the proper functions of different parts of speech.
Standards that are related to conventions are appropriate to formal spoken English as
they are to formal written English.
simple sentence – Contains one subject and one predicate. It contains one
complete thought. It has one independent clause.
o The dog barked.
o The large tan dog with a wide spiked collar barked all night long.
compound sentence – Two simple sentences may be joined. It contains two
subjects and two predicates. It contains two complete thoughts. It has two
independent clauses joined together.
o The dog barked and the cat yowled.
complex sentence – Contains two related ideas joined by a conjunction other
than and, but, or or. Complex sentences have an independent clause and a
dependent clause.
o Because the dog howled so loudly, he did not get a bone.