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A+LSCURRICULUM
GUIDE
The English Language - Grammar & Usage III |
The A+dvanced Learning System® Language curriculum is a comprehensive, completely integrated language skills curriculum for grade levels 1-9. This program directs students from beginning language skills to more advanced in a title series that encompasses three Grammar & Usage titles and seven Language Skills titles. Grammar & Usage titles have extensive tutorial and instructional voice support.
The three Grammar & Usage titles use the A+LSFour-Step Approach, employing Study, Practice, Test, and Essay exercises. This approach provides for instruction on and mastery of key concepts in grammar, such as parts of speech, singular and plural nouns and verbs, subject/verb agreement, verb tense, punctuation, abbreviation, voices, sentence structure, and much more. The A+LS software design provides for an engaging, colorful learning environment. As determined by the teacher, students may also have access to Letter Lightning, an educational reward game which reinforces lesson-related concepts.
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Standard & Nonstd. Speech | Review and diagnostics of Grammar Skills; Verb forms, Pronoun forms; Connectives, Double Negatives |
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Sentences and Fragments | Understood Subjects; Phrases, Incomplete Sentences, Complete Sentences | |
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Nouns 1 | Common and Proper Nouns; Gender of Nouns | |
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Nouns 2 | Singular and Plural Nouns; Two Plural Forms with Different Meanings; Singular and Plurals Alike; Compound Plural Nouns |
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Parts of Speech | Recognition of parts of speech in sentence; nouns, verbs, adverbs, conjunctions, pronouns, adjectives, prepositions, and interjections | |
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Parts of Sentences | Direct Objects, Indirect Objects; Predicate Nouns, Predicate Adjectives | |
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Prepositions | Prepositional Phrases, Prepositional Objects |
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Nouns 3 | Possessive Nouns; Possessive Pronouns; Nouns of Direct Address; Adverbial Nouns, Collective Nouns; Appositives |
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Objective Complements | Objective Case Uses, Indirect Objects; Adverbial Objectives | |
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Pronouns 1 | Personal, Compound Personal, Reflexive Pronouns, Antecedents | |
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Pronouns 2 | Relative Pronouns; Indefinite Relative Pronouns; Pronoun Number, Gender, Person, and Case |
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Pronouns 3 | Common Pronoun Errors | |
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Verbs 1 | Transitive Active; Transitive Passive; Intransitive Complete; Intransitive Linking; |
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Verbs 2 | Verb Agreement; Compound Subjects; Inverted Sentence Order; Introductory Verbs | |
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Verbs 3 | Verb Tenses; Present, Past, Past Participle | |
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Verbs 4 | Sequence of Tenses; Present, Past, Future, Present Perfect, Past Perfect, Future Perfect; Voice | |
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Mood | Indicative; Imperative; Subjunctive; Potential |
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Verbals | Infinitives, Gerunds, Participles, Dangling Modifiers |
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Adjectives | Comparison; Irregular Forms |
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Adverbs | Comparison; Irregular Forms |
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Language Problems 1 | Double comparisons; This, That, These, Those; Use of In and Into; Use of From; Use of Over; Use of Try | |
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Language Problems 2 | Prepositions; Use of Agree, Angry, Beside, Arrive, Between, Among, and Differ |
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Conjunctions | Coordinating Conjunctions, Correlative Conjunctions; Subordinating Conjunctions; Relative Pronouns | |
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Compound Sentences | Compound Sentences, Complex Sentences, Compound-Complex Sentences |
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Sentence Improvements 1 | Elimination of Faulty Construction; Comma Splices, Run-on Sentences, Parallelism; Changes in Voice and Tense; Coordination, Subordination; Conciseness, Word Order |
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Punctuation |
