Conventions of Grammar

Writing Instruction by Assessment Domains & 2008 ELA Standards Conventions of Grammar

Second Grade  personal pronouns  common and proper nouns  singular and plural nouns  proper adjectives  conjunctions (and, but, or)

Third Grade  comparative and superlative adjectives  prepositions  prepositional phrases  conjunctions (because, since, yet, until)  nominative and objective case pronouns

Fourth Grade  subject-verb agreement  past, present, and future verb tenses  conjunctions (although, while, neither, nor)  adverbs of time, place, manner, and degree  pronoun-antecedent agreement

Fifth Grade  irregular comparative and superlative adjectives  irregular adverbs  interjections  past participles of commonly misused verbs  subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement with collective nouns  collective nouns

Sixth Grade  main and subordinate clauses  indefinite pronouns  pronoun-antecedent agreement  consistent verb tenses

- 1 - --compiled from 2008 ELA Standards Writing Instruction by Assessment Domains & 2008 ELA Standards Seventh Grade  use grammatical conventions previously taught

Eighth Grade Parts of Speech  Nouns – all conventions of grammar previously taught listed above, plus  agreement of nouns and their modifiers

 Pronouns – all conventions of grammar previously taught listed above

 Verbs – all conventions of grammar previously taught listed above, plus  Verb formation

 Adverbs – all conventions of grammar previously taught listed above, plus  Formation of comparative and superlative adverbs

 Adjectives - all conventions of grammar previously taught listed above, plus  Formation of comparative and superlative adjectives

Usage  Subject-verb agreement  Subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement with collective nouns  Main and subordinate clauses  Idiomatic usage  Placement of modifiers  Shifts in construction

- 2 - --compiled from 2008 ELA Standards