Essential Grammar Skills for 8th Graders

The 8th grade English student:

  • Reviews verbs and verb tenses, progressive form, and the emphatic mood.
  • Concentrates on diagramming pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositional phrases, compound subjects and verbs, and all four sentence patterns.
  • Expands noun functions in sentences—compound, collective, plural, possessive, and subject/verb agreement.
  • Develops five kinds of pronouns (demonstrative, relative, interrogative, reflexive, and indefinite), the three cases of personal pronouns (nominative, objective, and possessive), subject pronoun/verb agreement (number, person, and gender), and diagrams pronouns.
  • Reviews parts of speech.
  • Continues to develop writing skills which include topic sentences, outlining, and paragraph development
  • Edits written paragraphs to ensure that correct grammar is used 
  • Recognizes sentence fragments and run-on sentences.
  • Writes several short biographical sketches.

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