Language
Usage Title Descriptions
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- Language Usage I
- Introduces nouns, verbs, conjunctions, and adjectives,
introduction to capitalization and punctuation, sentence types, contractions,
and abbreviations.
- Language Usage II
- Covers singular and plural nouns and verbs, subject/verb
agreement, regular and irregular verbs, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, grammar
improvements, identifying double negatives, capitalization, and
punctuation.
- Language Usage III
- Review of common and proper nouns, verb tenses, transitive and
intransitive verbs, contractions, conjunctions, cases, pronouns, sentence
structure, word order in sentences, simple and compound sentences, subjects and
predicates, adjectives, adverbs, and tricky words.
- Language Usage IV
- Review of noun forms, possessive nouns and pronouns, present,
past, and past participle verbs, predicate adjectives, demonstrative
adjectives, prepositional phrases, introduction to sentence diagramming, parts
of speech review,using direct quotations,importance ofparallelism, and correct
placement of modifiers.
- Language Usage V
- Review of nouns, review of verbs including troublesome and
irregular verbs, subjective, objective, and possessive pronouns, apostrophes,
punctuation of bibliographies, titles, letters, dialogue, comparative and
superlative modifiers, direct objects, identifying shifts in tense, diagramming
simple and compound sentences, review of parts of speech, problem words,
parallelism, and review of capitalization.
- Language Usage VI
- Covers concrete, abstract, and compound nouns, subject, object
pronouns, compound direct objects, verb phrases, principal verb parts, positive
and negative comparisons, sentence mechanics, diagramming, and fragments.
- Language Usage VII
- Introduction to the writing process, review of all parts of
speech, active and passive voice, progressive tense verbs, interrogative,
demonstrative, relative, and indefinite pronouns, sentence fragments, run-on
sentences, phrases and clauses, coordinating conjunctions, verbals, and review
of punctuation.
- Language Usage VIII
- Review of all noun types, pronouns, verbs, degrees of comparison
for adjectives and adverbs, participial phrases, restrictive and
non-restrictive clauses, diagramming, punctuation, colons, semicolons,
quotations, letter writing, shifts in tense, point of view, and problem
words.
- Secondary Language Usage
- High school level language usage, including review of nouns,
pronouns, antecedents and personal pronouns, transitive and intransitive verbs,
comparative and superlative forms of adjectives, review of all parts of speech,
identifying complete subjects/predicates, diagramming sentences, participles,
phrases that act as adjectives, gerunds, infinitives, appositives, clauses,
capitalization, punctuation, usage problems, double subjects, and confusing
words.
- Language Arts Keyboard Companion I
- Student exercises include rewriting paragraphs to change nouns to
plural nouns, change noun phrases to pronouns, and changing the spelling of
singular words. Students will also change the gender of the subject to match
the gender of the pronoun, change present tense verbs to past tense verbs, and
change past perfect tense verbs to present perfect tense verbs by adding a time
referent.
- Language Arts Keyboard Companion Il
- Student exercises include changing positive statements to
negative statements, changing statements into questions by changing the verb
position, changing questions into statements by moving the auxiliary verb
position, combining sentences by adding the word “and” where
necessary, combining four sentences into two sentences, and adding a compound
predicate.
- Language Arts Keyboard Companion Ill
- Student exercises include changing plural nouns to singular
nouns, changing indefinite amounts to specified quantities, changing masculine
pronouns to feminine pronouns, changing pronouns to agree with the subject of a
sentence, working with verb tenses, and changing noun phrases to pronouns.
- Language Arts Keyboard Companion IV
- Student exercises include changing positive statements to
negative statements using contractions, changing statements to questions by
moving the verb, creating sentences from word lists, combining sentences, and
changing questions into statements by moving the auxiliary verb.
- Language Arts Keyboard Companion V
- Student exercises include changing singular nouns to plural nouns
by changing the spelling, adding quantities to nouns, filling in the blanks of
sentences using the words “much”and “many”, changing
singular nouns to plural nouns, working with subject/verb agreement, and
changing the tenses of verbs.
- Language Arts Keyboard Companion VI
- Student exercises include changing positive statements to
negative statements, changing statements into questions by changing the verb
position, changing questions into statements by moving the auxiliary verb
position, combining sentences using correct punctuation, and combining three
sentences into one sentence by using a compound verb.
