Easy Grammar Series and Easy Grammar Ultimate Series Scope & Sequence

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ADJECTIVES
Adverb or Adjective Usage
Defined
Degrees
Descriptive
Identification
Limiting (Determining)
Phrases/Clauses
Predicate
Proper

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ADVERBS
Adverb or Adjective Usage
Conjunctive
Defined
Double Negatives
How (Manner)
Identification
Phrases/Clauses

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To What Extent
Transitional Words/Phrases
When (Time)
Where (Place)

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CLAUSES
Clause or Phrase?
Defined
Dependent
Dependent or Independent
Independent
Relative
Restrictive/Nonrestrictive

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CONJUNCTIONS
Coordinating

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Correlative
Defined
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Transitional Words Phrases

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FRAGMENTS/SENTENCES/RUN-ONS---Identify

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IMPORTANT WORDS
Farther/Further
Its/Its
May/Can
Regardless
Seldom

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There/Their/Theyre
To/Too/Two
Your/Youre

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INTERJECTIONS

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LETTERS
Business

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Friendly

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NOUNS
Abstract
Appositives
Common/Proper
Concrete
Defined
Determiners
Direct Object
Gerunds
Indirect Object
Phrase/Clause
Possessive

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Compound with Shared Item(s)
Plural
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Predicate Nominative
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Subject (Compound)
Verbals

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Appositive
Defined
Gerund
Improper Placement
Infinitive
Participial (Adjective/Adverb)
Phrase or Clause?
Prepositional
Transitional

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Compound Object of the Preposition

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Differentiating Prepositions and Adverbs
Influencing Subject and Verb
Object of the Preposition
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Phrases
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PRONOUNS
Antecedent Agreement
Compound
Defined
Demonstrative
Former-Latter
Indefinite
Interrogative
Personal
Nominative (Subject)
Nominative (Predicate Pronoun)

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Direct Object

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Object of the Preposition

Possessive Case
Reflexive
Relative
We/Us + Noun

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SENTENCES
Complex
Compound
Compound-Complex
Fragments/Sentences
Sentences/Run-Ons
Simple

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VERBS
Action

Agreement with Subject

Compound Verbs
Contractions
Defined
Helping (Auxiliary) Verbs
Identifying Complete Subject and Verb
Identifying Subject and Verb
Infinitives
Irregular
Linking/To Be
Mood
Phrases

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Regular
Sit/Set, Rise/Raise, Lie/Lay
Subjunctive
Tenses
Future
Future Perfect

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Future Progressive
Past

Past Perfect
Past Progressive
Present
Present Perfect
Present Progressive

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Transitive/Intransitive
Voice (Active/Passive)

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ANALOGIES

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CAPITALIZATION
Abbreviations/Initials
Abstract Concepts
Associations/Organizations

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Awards
Beginning of a Sentence
Brands
Businesses
Categories, Ranks, Grades, etc.
Closing of a Letter
Days/Holidays/Special Days

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Direct Quotations
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Events
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Geographic Locations
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Government
Government Bodies, Agencies, etc.
Greeting of a Letter
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Heavenly Bodies
Historical Documents, Treaties, Laws, Amendments, etc.
Historical Events
Hyphenated Proper Nouns/ Hyphenated Proper Adjectives
Institutions
Correctional
Schools and Colleges
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Languages
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Months
Names
Nationalities, Races, Ethnic Groups
Nicknames/Epithets
Outlines
Period of Time/Age

Poetry
Political Parties and Members
Programs/Projects
Pronoun, I
Proper Adjectives
Proper Nouns
Religious References

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Scientific Divisions
Streets/Lanes/Freeway/Interstate
Structures
Titles in Place of Names
Titles of Literary Works, etc.
Titles with Names
Titles (Well-known)

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Animals
Career Choices
Dances
Directions
Diseases/Illnesses

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Foods
Games
Multiple Proper Nouns Exception
Musical Instruments
Parts of a Name
Plants
School Subjects
Seasons
Some Abbreviations (i.e., e.g.)
Some Hyphenated Words
Species
Terms, gods and goddesses
Within Some Parentheses
With Split Quotations

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Contractions
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Plural Words and Letters Out of Context

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Possessives
Compound with Individual Item(s)
Compound with Shared Item(s)
Plural
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Singular
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Year with Missing Digits

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Colon
After a Subtitle
Before an Emphasized Word/Phrase
Divisions

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Divisions
Greeting of a Business Letter
Introduction of a Long Quotation
Lists
Ratios
Time
Within a Bibliography

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Comma
Address Components
Appositives
Clarity Within a Sentence
Closing of a Friendly Letter
Complex Sentence
Compound Sentence

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Dates:
After Number for Day and Year

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Dependent Clause within a Sentence

Descriptive Adjectives in Sequence X
Direct Quotations
Within Any Quotation
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Verb + Speaker
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Emphasis/Re-emphasis

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Equal or Identical Terms

Greeting of a Friendly Letter
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Interrupters/Parenthetical Expressions
Introductory Phrases
Adjectival
Adverbial
Participial
Prepositional
Introductory Word
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Inverted Name
Items Series
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Nonrestrictive Clauses
Noun of Direct Address
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Places

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City (Town) and State

City (Town)/Country

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City(Town)/State/Country
Within a Sentence
Ex. I like Waco, Texas, in the fall.
Question Tag
Repetition of Words and Phrases

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Rhetorical Comma
Transposed Elements
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Interjections
Sentences Reflecting Strong
Emotion

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Hyphen
Division of Words at the End of a Sentence
Fractions
Some Closely Related Words

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Spelling Out Words/Expanded Words
Trailing (Compound)
Two-Digit Numbers

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Sentences
Initials/Abbrev.
Outlines

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Quotation Marks
Double
Single
Split
Titles:
Articles
Chapters

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Essays/Reports
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Poems/Nursery Rhymes
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Songs
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Speeches/Presentations
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Stories (Short)
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Used for Clarification
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Names of Ships, Planes, and Trains

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Book
CD
Long Poems/Stories
Magazine
Movie/DVD
Newspaper
Play/Musical/Opera
Television Show
Works of Art (Painting, etc.)

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Acronyms

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Some Abbreviations
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SENTENCE COMBINING
*Easy Grammar Ultimate Series180 Daily Teaching Lessons (Grades 8-12+)
**Assumed by other references and/or specifics not reflected in Standards

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