Middle School Grammar
Grade level: 8
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Parts of Speech |
Identify, classify and use the different parts of speech correctly: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, preposition, conjunction, interjection |
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Subject and Predicate |
Identify subjects and predicates; simple subjects; complete subjects; simple predicates; complete predicates; compound subjects; compound verbs |
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Diagramming |
Diagramming format; practice diagramming (which reinforces parts of speech and subject/predicate identification) |
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Direct and Indirect Objects |
Identify subjects, verbs and complements in sentences; identify verbs and their direct objects; identify direct and indirect objects; identify predicate nominatives and predicate adjectives |
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Phrases |
Identify prepositional phrases; adjective and adverb phrases and their modifiers; identify participial phrases and their modifiers; identify gerunds, gerund phrases and their functions in a sentence; identify infinite phrases and their part of speech |
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Clauses |
Identifying independent and subordinate clauses; identify adjective clauses; identify adverb clauses; identify noun clauses |