Review for Grammar Post-Test and Final Exam Agreement/Comma Rules

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Review for Grammar Post-Test and Final Exam
Agreement/Comma Rules

• Subject/verb
• Pronoun/antecedent
• Pronoun type

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Agreement Rules

• A subject and verb must agree in
• Number (singular to singular plural to plural)
• Gender
• STEPS
• Determine the subject and whether its singular
  or plural
• Determine the verb and whether its singular or
  plural
• Keep the tense the same!

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Example

• The boy stand in the corner.
• Subjectboy
• Verb- stand
• Are these singular or plural?
• Do they agree?
• change the verb, not the subject
• keep the same tense

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Agreement Rules

• A pronoun must agree with its antecedent in
• Gender
• Number
• Antecedent means comes before
• STEPS
• Determine the subject or noun. Is it singular or
  plural? Male? Female? Or Object?
• Determine whether the pronoun used to refer back
  to it is the same gender and number.

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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!

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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

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Pronoun Types

• Reflexive
• Singularmyself, himself, herself, oneself
• Pluralthemselves, ourselves
• Personal
• SingularI, he, she, it, you
• Pluralthey, we, us, them

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Pronoun Types

• Nominative (does action)
• SingularI, he, she, it, you
• Pluralwe, they
• Objective (receives action)
• Singularhim, her, it, you
• Pluralus, them

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Pronoun Types

• Possessive
• Singularmy, mine, his, hers, its, yours
• Pluraltheirs, ours
• Demonstrative
• This, that, these, those

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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 SpeechLook over old bell work and the
  descriptors in your planner for noun, pronoun,
  adjective, adverb, preposition, verb,
  conjunction, interjection

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Review 1Fix 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.

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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.

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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.

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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 Marks has been
   collected and is put away on the book shelf.

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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.

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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.

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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 hosts favorite charity I am sure they will
   be fun!

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Review 8 (Exam) Correct agreement label
pronoun type fix wrong word errors.(reflexive,
indefinite, demonstrative, relative, possessive)

1. The Board explain theyre 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?

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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 students should remember two
   bring a number to pencil and these review
   practice slides to review answers before the test.

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Review 10 (Exam)Find the subject and correct
agreement label pronoun type add commas, and
fix errors.reflexive, indefinite, demonstrative,
relative, possessive

• A grammar review that is designed like the
  post-test are to be completed buy table partners
  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 youre
  mistakes.

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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

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Review 12stanza 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?