REVISED FORMAT FOR YOUR GRAMMAR BOOKLET: For 4th -7th Graders

DUE NO LATER THAN JANUARY5, 2016.

Mrs. Kwayana’s Classes

This booklet will be written in your clearest English without slang. Do not talk down to your audience!

  1. Write an introduction to the booklet giving your purpose for writing it and inviting your audience to use it well. All explanations must be followed by examples, and, (by “A” Scholars) quizzes. ALL work not from your own mind but from other sources MUST be cited.

CONTENTS

  1. Explain the meaning of Syllable.
  2. Explain the meaning of Word. Use the NOUN for examples this way: Show that nouns have NUMBER (Singular and Plural)
  3. Show the different categories of nouns according to how they form their plurals.
  4. Then show how nouns for possession. When is the apostrophe used? Where? How? Make clear that the apostrophe is NOT a marker for plurals!!!! Use all the examples you need to contrast (–s) with (‘s).
  5. The next unit after the word is The Phrase. Take each type of phrase, one at a time; define it; give an example from the text; give your own example; create quizzes.
  6. The next grammar unit is The Clause . Define Clause thoroughly including examples. Give another name for “independent clause.” Explain. (You may also define and explain “Compound Sentence.”)

THE MOST IMPORTANT DISCUSSION: The Dependent Clause

  1. Take as much time as you need to explain The Dependent Clause. What is it made up of? What are some kinds of dependent clauses? Can a dependent clause “stand alone” as a sentence? Why not? What must be added to the dependent clause to turn the dependent clause into a complete thought, a complete sentence? Spare no efforts, including creating quizzes, to make this clearly understood.

10. The RUN-ON sentence is another error just as the sentence fragment is. We have not yet discussed this problem of two (2) independent clauses running together with no end punctuation separating them.

11. The VERB System. Define and give many examples of REGULARverbs. Name some of them and show how their endings are formed? Be clear.

12. Then introduce the reader to IRREGULAR verbs. Explain how, unlike regular verbs, they must be memorized. Give at least six (6) examples of how to conjugate them. Please use this structure:

ALWAYSuse the 3rd Person to practice that form

Everyday he, she, or it sleeps.

Yesterday he, she, or it slept.

For many days he, she, or it has slept.

13. A WORKS CITED Page