- Define sentence types
- Define sentence structure for simple, compound, and run-on sentences
- Define sentence parts: subjects and predicates and you (understood)
- Define direct objects
- Natural word order in sentences. Sentence diagramming
- Define nouns: singular and plural, common and proper, and possessive
- Define verbs and irregular verbs
- Verb tenses: present, past, and future
- Verb contractions and using verbs correctly
- Define common and proper adjectives and articles
- Comparison with adjectives
- Using adjectives correctly
- Define adverbs of place, time, manner, and degree; intensifiers
- Comparison with adverbs
- Using adverbs correctly
- Define subject, object, possessive, and reflexive pronouns
- Using pronouns correctly
- Define prepositions and use correctly
- Define coordinating conjunctions and using them correctly
- Capitalization and punctuation
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