Jason Sorokin
Web Development 9
ENGLISH!
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English 9th and 10th grade grammar focuses on advanced concepts like parts of speech, sentence structure, verb tenses, and more complex topics such as reported speech, voice, and clauses. Students learn to use these rules to improve writing, with key areas including proper comma usage, active voice, and correct preposition use.
Beyond simply identifying the parts of speech, students practice using them to create more nuanced and varied sentences.
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Nouns: A deeper dive into collective, material, and abstract nouns.
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Verbs: Mastering regular and irregular verbs, and understanding action, linking, and helping verbs.
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Modifiers (Adjectives and Adverbs): Correctly ordering adjectives and placing adverbs to avoid ambiguity. This also includes using comparative and superlative forms.
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Pronouns: Ensuring pronoun-antecedent agreement and avoiding vague or unclear pronoun references.
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Sentence structure
At this level, students move beyond simple sentences to master more complex constructions for greater written and verbal fluency.
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Complex and compound-complex sentences: Students learn to combine independent and dependent clauses effectively to express complex ideas.
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Clauses and phrases: Distinguishing between independent and dependent clauses, and understanding different types of phrases (noun, verb, participial, prepositional, etc.)
Therefore, your writing skills aren't high if you do not know which words' part of speech.
PARTS OF SPEECH
GRAMMAR
Students are expected to achieve mastery over advanced punctuation marks that enhance the precision of their writing.
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Semicolons: Linking two or more closely related independent clauses.
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Colons: Introducing lists, quotes, or explanations.
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Apostrophes: Correctly indicating possession and contractions.
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Hyphens and dashes: Differentiating between and correctly applying these types of punctuation.
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Students are expected to achieve mastery over advanced
​ punctuation marks that enhance the precision of their writing. ​​
PUNCTUATION
