A Sound Curriculum in English Grammar: Guidelines for Teachers and Parents |
Contents
Why Teach English Grammar? | 1 |
The Functions of Words | 9 |
Making Sentences | 15 |
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Common terms and phrases
able active voice adverbs analyzed authority auxiliary bake cookies becomes birds sing boy goes buy flour child combined complex sentence compound-complex sentence conditional mood conjunctions coordinating conjunction diagram dialect dictionary direct object effective emphasis English language Examples exclamatory flour his mother functional words gender gerund give grade should begin grammar is interesting grammarians identify imitation independent clauses indirect inflections knowledge Latin learned lilies are plants literature look mastery modifiers ninth grade Note noun or pronoun Occidental College passive voice past tense form persons and numbers predicate adjective predicate noun prefixes and suffixes prepositional present tense principles processes reader reading recognize relational or functional relational words relationships rote memory sentence structures seventh grade sing subject sister sometimes he wants Standard English stayed home stem story subject-verb subjunctive taught teacher teaching grammar tences third person singular tion understanding verb vocabulary word order words and sentences writing