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The 5th grade English student:

• Expands knowledge of nouns and verbs and learns the agreement of subjects and verbs.
• Learns to diagram the subject, action verb, state-of-being verb, predicate noun, adjectives, adverbs, and direct object of a sentence.
• Identifies and correctly uses verbs that are often misused, modifiers, and pronouns.
• Changes a given list of verbs from singular to plural.
• Reviews pronouns and identifies the kinds (personal, interrogative, demonstrative, and indefinite) and cases (subjective, objective, and possessive).
• Recognizes simple and complete subjects and predicates.
• Is introduced to predicate adjectives and comparative degrees of adverbs.
• Recognizes complete sentences and fragments, learns four sentence patterns, and develops paragraphs.
• Learns and practices punctuation rules including quotation marks, underlining titles, etc. 
• Increases word concepts (antonyms, synonyms, homophones) and learns about heteronyms.
• Writes business and friendly letters.
• Demonstrates a mastery of proper capitalization.