Transcript Grammar-review-slides

Review for Grammar Post-Test
and Final Exam
Agreement/Comma Rules
Subject/verb
Pronoun/antecedent
Pronoun type
Agreement Rules
A subject and verb must agree in:
• Number (singular to singular; plural to plural)
• Gender
STEPS:
1. Determine the subject and whether it’s singular
or plural
2. Determine the verb and whether it’s singular or
plural
3. Keep the tense the same!
Example
The boy stand in the corner.
Subject—boy
Verb- stand
Are these singular or plural?
Do they agree?
*change the verb, not the subject
*keep the same tense
Agreement Rules
A pronoun must agree with its antecedent in:
• Gender
• Number
• Antecedent means “comes before”
STEPS
1. Determine the subject or noun. Is it singular or
plural? Male? Female? Or Object?
2. Determine whether the pronoun used to refer
back to it is the same gender and number.
Example
The boy in the corner has his book with
them.
Subject- boy
Verb-has
Pronouns- his, them
Do these agree in gender and number?
*change the pronoun, not the noun!
Pronoun Types
• Indefinite
Singular--- someone, everyone, everybody,
somebody, one, none, neither/nor,
either/or, some (if followed by a singular
object)
Plural---Some (if followed by a plural object),
few, all, many
Pronoun Types
• Reflexive
Singular—myself, himself, herself, oneself
Plural—themselves, ourselves
• Personal
Singular—I, he, she, it, you
Plural—they, we, us, them
Pronoun Types
• Nominative (does action)
Singular—I, he, she, it, you
Plural—we, they
• Objective (receives action)
Singular—him, her, it, you
Plural—us, them
Pronoun Types
• Possessive
Singular—my, mine, his, hers, its, yours
Plural—theirs, ours
• Demonstrative
This, that, these, those
Comma Rules/Parts of Speech
Please review all the rules we covered in
your notebook and look over old bell work
as well.
Parts of Speech—Look over old bell work
and the descriptors in your planner for
noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb,
preposition, verb, conjunction, interjection
Review #1
Fix Agreement Errors/Apply comma rules
1. Next Tuesday the boys and the girls in
the elementary school plans to have a
fund-raiser for her school.
2. The students is going to collect money
for charity and will see who raise the
most money.
Review #2 Fix Agreement Errors/apply comma
rules
1. Some of us was scheduled for work
today, but some employees now has
trouble with child-care.
2. A few of the employees brings her kids to
work, so she got in trouble.
Review #3 Fix Agreement Errors/apply comma
rules
1. Neither of the schools is open on
Saturday so the students cannot retrieve
his/her backpacks.
2. In addition no one are available to tutor.
Review #4
Fix Agreement Errors & apply comma rules
1. Sarah the book you are handing in
appear to be losing her cover so you
needs to tape it back on.
2. All of the novels except for Mark’s has
been collected and is put away on the
book shelf.
Review #5
Fix Agreement Errors/add commas
1. One of the cakes on the dessert tables
are chocolate but there is also cookies
and pie.
2. None of the pies even the chocolate
cream pie tempts me because I like cake
better.
Review #6
Correct agreement; label pronoun type.
(reflexive, indefinite, demonstrative, relative, possessive)
1. All of the cake are gone by the time Sam
and Ali is able to get to the refreshment
table.
2. However, Fatimah decide to share hers
with them.
Review #7 (Exam) Correct
agreement; label pronoun type.
(reflexive, indefinite, demonstrative, relative, possessive)
1. The invited guests, as well as the host,
dresses themselves in costumes that
represents various famous figures in
history.
2. The party seem like an interesting way to
fund the host’s favorite charity; I am sure
they will be fun!
Review #8
(Exam) Correct agreement; label
pronoun type; fix wrong word errors.
(reflexive, indefinite, demonstrative, relative, possessive)
1. The Board explain they’re knew school
policies and procedures at the final board
meeting of the year.
2. Too who should I addresses my
concerns about the new rules for the
next school year?
Review #9 (Exam) Find the subject and correct
agreement; label pronoun type; add commas, and fix
errors.
(reflexive, indefinite, demonstrative, relative, possessive)
1. The grammar post-test are on Wednesday this
week students should review his/her old bell
work on comma rules and agreement.
2. Also all of the student’s should remember two
bring a number to pencil and these review
practice slides to review answers before the
test.
Review #10 (Exam)
Find the subject and correct agreement; label
pronoun type; add commas, and fix errors.
reflexive, indefinite, demonstrative, relative, possessive
1. A grammar review that is designed like
the post-test are to be completed buy
table partner’s after presentations today.
2. After these everyone should be working
to identify their roadblocks in grammar so
use the answer key as a teaching tool to
correct you’re mistakes.
Review #11 (Exam)
stanza form, rhyme scheme, figurative
language, imagery, sound device, etc.
I am not yours, not lost in you,
Not lost, although I long to be
Lost as candle lit at noon,
Lost as a snowflake in the sea.
*What does it mean?
-Sara Teasdale
Review #12
stanza form, rhyme scheme, figurative
language, imagery, sound device, etc.
You love me, and I find you still
A spirit beautiful and bright,
Yet I am I, who long to be
Lost as a light is lost in light.
*What does it mean?