Review for Grammar Post-Test and Final Exam

Agreement/Comma RulesSubject/verb

Pronoun/antecedent

Pronoun type

Agreement Rules

A subject and verb must agree in:• Number (singular to singular; plural to plural)• Gender

STEPS:

1. Determine the subject and whether it’s singular or plural

2. Determine the verb and whether it’s singular or plural

3. Keep the tense the same!

Example

The boy stand in the corner.Subject—boyVerb- stand

Are these singular or plural?Do they agree?*change the verb, not the subject*keep the same tense

Agreement Rules

A pronoun must agree with its antecedent in:• Gender• Number• Antecedent means “comes before”

STEPS

1. Determine the subject or noun. Is it singular or plural? Male? Female? Or Object?

2. Determine whether the pronoun used to refer back to it is the same gender and number.

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!

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

Pronoun Types

• Reflexive

Singular—myself, himself, herself, oneself

Plural—themselves, ourselves

• Personal

Singular—I, he, she, it, you

Plural—they, we, us, them

Pronoun Types

• Nominative (does action)

Singular—I, he, she, it, you

Plural—we, they

• Objective (receives action)

Singular—him, her, it, you

Plural—us, them

Pronoun Types

• Possessive

Singular—my, mine, his, hers, its, yours

Plural—theirs, ours

• Demonstrative

This, that, these, those

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

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.

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.

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.

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 Mark’s has been collected and is put away on the book shelf.

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.

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.

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 host’s favorite charity; I am sure they will be fun!

Review #8 (Exam) Correct agreement; label pronoun type; fix wrong word errors.

(reflexive, indefinite, demonstrative, relative, possessive)

1. The Board explain they’re 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?

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

Review #10 (Exam)Find the subject and correct agreement; label

pronoun type; add commas, and fix errors.reflexive, indefinite, demonstrative, relative, possessive

1. A grammar review that is designed like the post-test are to be completed buy table partner’s 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 you’re mistakes.

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

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?