English Language Arts and Reading.4.11.D.ii

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The student is expected to

edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:

 

past tense of irregular verbs;

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Knowledge and Skills Statement

Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions.
During the editing stage of the writing process, students further improve their drafts and often prepare them for publication by correcting conventions errors. Ensuring that the standard rules of the English language have been correctly applied helps readers more easily comprehend the information because they are not having to interrupt their thinking to determine what the writer intended to say.
Many English verbs are regular verbs, which means they form their different tenses according to an established pattern. Forming the past tense of regular verbs generally requires adding letters to the end of a verb in present tense, typically -ed (e.g., parked in “We parked the car.”) Irregular verbs do not follow the normal rules of conjugation; their structure completely changes in the past tense (e.g., go, went, and gone as forms of to go). Since there is no rule to conjugate irregular verbs in the past tense, students are expected to memorize their respective conjugations and use them correctly when writing.
standard rules of the English language, including written mechanics such as punctuation, capitalization, spelling, paragraphing, etc. and written/oral grammar such as parts of speech, word order, subject-verb agreement, and sentence structure
a part of speech that describes a past, present, or future action or state of being, is the grammatical center of the predicate, and shows agreement with the subject and/or object