English Language Arts and Reading.6.10.D.iv

The student is expected to

edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:

 

prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb agreement;

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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.

Provide students with teacher-created sentences in which a prepositional phrase appears between the subject and its verb. In each sentence, leave a blank line where the verb should be and offer two options from which students can choose the correct verb.
 

Further Explanation

This assessment requires students to apply their knowledge of prepositional phrases and how they can create confusion regarding subject-verb agreement. Knowledge is acquired through practice and experience with appropriate use of prepositions and prepositional phrases in writing. This skill should be developed with writing in all genres.

During the editing stage of the writing process, students further improve their drafts and often prepare them for publication by correcting errors in mechanics, grammar, and spelling. Applying standard rules of the English language correctly helps the audience understand the information more easily by not having to interrupt their thinking to decide what the writer intended to say.
a class of function words that are followed by nouns, creating a prepositional phrase (e.g., by in “by the river”; at with “at school”)
Students are expected to demonstrate understanding of the functions of prepositions and prepositional phrases and use them effectively when writing. Students are expected to know how to identify the true subject in a clause when a prepositional phrase appears between the subject and its verb and to then include the appropriate subject-verb agreement. For example, students should know that in the sentence “Each of the contestants was ready to hear the results,” the subject is each and not contestants. Therefore, the correct verb is was not were. Students should review their drafts, evaluating the use of prepositional phrases for correctness and make necessary changes to improve the quality of the writing.
the grammatical state of a sentence when the subject and verb match in number (singular or plural) and/or person (first person, second person, third person)