Belleville Mennonite School Scope and Sequence

 

Middle School Grammar

 

Grade level: 8

 

Parts of Speech

Identify, classify and use the different parts of speech correctly: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, preposition, conjunction, interjection

Subject and Predicate

Identify subjects and predicates; simple subjects; complete subjects; simple predicates; complete predicates; compound subjects; compound verbs

Diagramming

Diagramming format; practice diagramming (which reinforces parts of speech and subject/predicate identification)

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

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

Clauses

Identifying independent and subordinate clauses; identify adjective clauses; identify adverb clauses; identify noun clauses