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.
Resources: If any link does not work, please let me know by leaving a comment and I will fix it as soon as possible.
- Intermediate Language Arts – Easy Peasy All-in-One Homeschool
- Daily Grammar Lesson Archive
- Language Arts: Level 8 Book Studies – The Good and the Beautiful
- Grammar-land; Or, Grammar in Fun for the Children of Schoolroom-shire … : M. L. Nesbitt : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive to be used with this site. We Don’t Need No Education: Grammar-Land Worksheets
- 11,239 FREE Grammar Worksheets
- Language Arts Worksheets
- Grammar Season 1
- English Worksheets
- Grammar Bytes! Grammar Instruction with Attitude
- Khan Academy – YouTube
- Class 8 English Grammar | Complete Course | All Chapters Available – YouTube
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