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Sentence Structure

6th Grade

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 6.10.D

(D) edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:
  1. complete complex sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments;
  2. consistent, appropriate use of verb tenses;
  3. conjunctive adverbs;
  4. prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb agreement;
  5. pronouns, including relative;
  6. subordinating conjunctions to form complex sentences and correlative conjunctions such as either/or and neither/nor;
  7. capitalization of proper nouns, including abbreviations, initials, acronyms, and organizations;
  8. punctuation marks, including commas in complex sentences, transitions, and introductory elements; and
  9. correct spelling, including commonly confused terms such as its/it's, affect/effect, there/their/they're, and to/two/too;

Georgia Math and ELA Standards: 6.L.GC.1.53

Grammar, Mechanics Use parts of speech and their associated phrases or clauses to perform indicated sentence functions (e.g., subject, direct object, predicate nominative, modifier). (Introduce)

Georgia Math and ELA Standards: 6.L.GC.2.b

Use a variety of simple, compound, complex, and compound- complex sentences to condense and combine ideas, maintaining consistent verb tense throughout the text. (C)

Georgia Math and ELA Standards: 6.L.GC.2.c

Identify and use active voice in sentences, revising for subject-verb agreement. (C)



6th Grade Writing - Sentence Structure Lesson
 


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