Grammar and mechanics
Sentences, fragments and run-ons
- Y.1 Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory?
- Y.2 Identify the complete subject or complete predicate of a sentence
- Y.3 Identify the simple subject or simple predicate of a sentence
- Y.4 Identify the compound subject or compound predicate of a sentence
- Y.5 Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?
- Y.6 Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?
- Y.7 Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on?
Phrases and clauses
Nouns
- AA.1 Form and use plurals: review
- AA.2 Form and use plurals of compound nouns
- AA.3 Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives
- AA.4 Form the singular or plural possessive
- AA.5 Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
- AA.6 Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession
Pronouns and antecedents
Pronoun types
- CC.1 Choose between subject and object pronouns
- CC.2 Compound subjects and objects with ‘I’ and ‘me’
- CC.3 Compound subjects and objects with pronouns
- CC.4 Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns
- CC.5 Use reflexive pronouns
- CC.6 Is the pronoun reflexive or intensive?
- CC.7 Use relative pronouns: who and whom
- CC.8 Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that
Verb types
Subject-verb agreement
Verb tense
- FF.1 Irregular past tense: review
- FF.2 Simple past, present and future tense: review
- FF.3 Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
- FF.4 Form the progressive verb tenses
- FF.5 Form the perfect verb tenses
- FF.6 Identify participles and what they modify
- FF.7 Identify gerunds and their functions
- FF.8 Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases
Adjectives and adverbs
- GG.1 Identify adjectives
- GG.2 Order adjectives
- GG.3 Identify adverbs
- GG.4 Choose between adjectives and adverbs
- GG.5 Is the word an adjective or adverb?
- GG.6 Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives
- GG.7 Good, better, best, bad, worse and worst
- GG.8 Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs
- GG.9 Well, better, best, badly, worse and worst