Grammar 8th Grade

 Grammar

A. Sentences, fragments, and run-ons

1 Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory?

2 Identify the complete subject or complete predicate of a sentence

3 Identify the simple subject or simple predicate of a sentence

4 Identify the compound subject or compound predicate of a sentence

5 Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?

6 Is it a complete sentence or a run-on?

6a Identify dependent and independent clauses

6b Is the sentence simple or compound?

6c Is the sentence simple, compound, or complex?

6d Create compound sentence.

6e Order the words to create a sentence

7 Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on?

B. Phrases and clauses

1 Is it a phrase or a clause?

2 Identify appositives and appositive phrases

3 Identify dependent and independent clauses

4 Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?

5 Combine sentences using relative clauses

C. Nouns

1 Form and use plurals: review

2 Form and use plurals of compound nouns

3 Identify plurals, singular possessives, and plural possessives

4 Form the singular or plural possessive

5 Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns

6 Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession

6a Identify nouns – with abstract nouns

6b Identify common and proper nouns

6c Form plurals of nouns ending in f, fe, o, and y

D. Pronouns and antecedents

1 Identify pronouns and their antecedents

2 Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent

3 Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person

4 Identify vague pronoun references

5 Identify all of the possible antecedents

E. Pronoun types

1 Choose between subject and object pronouns

2 Compound subjects and objects with "I" and "me"

3 Compound subjects and objects with pronouns

4 Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns

5 Use reflexive pronouns

6 Is the pronoun reflexive or intensive?

6a Identify personal pronouns

6b Replace the noun with a personal pronoun

6c  Use possessive pronouns

6d    Identify relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that 

8 Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that 

F. Verb types

1 Identify transitive and intransitive verbs

2 Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns

3-6a Identify main verbs and helping verbs

3-6b Use the correct modal verb

G. Subject-verb agreement

1 Correct errors with subject-verb agreement

2 Correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement

3 Use the correct verb – with compound subjects

4-6a Use the correct subject or verb

4-6b Use the correct subject or verb – with compound subjects

H. Verb tense 

1 Irregular past tense: review

2 Simple past, present, and future tense: review

3 Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense

4 Form the progressive verb tenses

5 Form the perfect verb tenses

6 Identify participles and what they modify

6a    Is the sentence in the past, present, or future tense?

6b Form and use the regular past tense

6c Form and use the irregular past tense

6d Form and use the simple past, present, and future tense

6e Correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense

6f Use the progressive verb tenses

6g Form the progressive verb tenses

6h Choose between the past tense and past participle

6i Use the perfect verb tenses

6j Form the perfect verb tenses

7 Identify gerunds and their functions

8 Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases

9 Identify the verb mood

I. Adjectives and adverbs

1 Identify adjectives

2 Order adjectives

3 Identify adverbs

4 Choose between adjectives and adverbs

5 Is the word an adjective or adverb?

6 Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives

6a Use relative adverbs

6b Is the word an adjective or adverb?

6c Use adjectives to compare

6d Spell adjectives that compare

6e Use adjectives with more and most

6f Use adverbs to compare 

7 Good, better, best, bad, worse, and worst

8 Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs

9 Well, better, best, badly, worse, and worst

J. Prepositions

1 Identify prepositional phrases

2-6a Identify prepositions

2-6b Identify prepositions and their objects

2-6c  Prepositions: review

K. Direct and indirect objects

1 Is it a direct object or an indirect object? 

L. Conjunctions

1 Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions

2-6a Identify coordinating conjunctions

2-6b Identify subordinating conjunctions

2-6c Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions

2-6d Fill in the missing correlative conjunction

LL. Misplaced modifiers

1 Misplaced modifiers with pictures

2 Select the misplaced or dangling modifier

3 Are the modifiers used correctly?

M. Restrictive and nonrestrictive elements

1 What does the punctuation suggest?

2 Commas with nonrestrictive elements

N. Commas

1 Commas with series, dates, and places

2 Commas with compound and complex sentences

3 Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, and interrupters

4 Commas with coordinate adjectives

5 Commas: review

O. Semicolons, colons, and commas

1 Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses

2 Use semicolons, colons, and commas with lists

P. Dashes, hyphens, and ellipses

1 Use dashes

2 Use hyphens in compound adjectives

3 Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately

Q. Capitalization

1 Correct capitalization errors

2 Capitalizing titles

R. Formatting

1 Formatting titles

2 Formatting and capitalizing titles: review

3 Formatting street addresses

4 Formatting quotations and dialogue

S. Contractions

1-6a Pronoun-verb contractions

1-6b Contractions with "not"