Scope for Teaching English

1. PARSE (& DIAGRAM).

     noun
a. common
                                                                             
b. possessive
                                                                             
c. proper
                                                                             
     adjective
                                                                             
     verb
a. syntactic category
i. auxiliary
                                                                             
ii. copula
                                                                             
iii. transitivity
                                                                             
b. semantic category (action)
                                                                             
c. tense (aspect vs. time)
                                                                             
d. voice (active vs. passive)
                                                                             
     verbal
a. gerund
                                                                             
b. infinitive
                                                                             
c. participle
                                                                             
     pronoun
a. demonstrative
                                                                             
b. indefinite
                                                                             
c. interrogative
                                                                             
d. personal
                                                                             
i. case
                                                                             
ii. person
                                                                             
e. reflexive
                                                                             
f. relative
                                                                             
     adverb
                                                                             
     preposition
                                                                             
     conjunction
a. coordinating
                                                                             
b. correlative
                                                                             
c. subordinating
                                                                             
     interjection
                                                                             
     phrase
a. absolute
                                                                             
b. appositive
                                                                             
c. prepositional
i. adjectival adjunct
                                                                             
ii. adverbial adjunct
                                                                             
iii. verbal complement
                                                                             
d. verbal
i. gerund
                                                                             
ii. infinitive
                                                                             
iii. participial
                                                                             
     clause
a. dependent
                                                                             
i. noun
                                                                             
ii. adjective
                                                                             
iii. adverb
                                                                             
b. independent
                                                                             
     sentence
a. functional purpose
i. declarative
                                                                             
ii. exclamatory
                                                                             
iii. imperative
                                                                             
iv. interrogative
                                                                             
b. grammatical form       DIAGRAM:
                                                                             
i. complex
                                                                             
ii. compound
                                                                             
iii. compound-complex
                                                                             
v. simple
                                                                             
     subject
a. complete
                                                                             
b. simple
                                                                             
     predicate
a. complete
                                                                             
b. simple
                                                                             
     complement
a. direct object
i. finite
                                                                             
ii. gerund
                                                                             
iii. infinitive
                                                                             
iv. participle
                                                                             
b. indirect object
                                                                             
c. predicate adjective
                                                                             
d. predicate noun
                                                                             
e. objective
                                                                             

2. RECOGNIZE.

     elliptical phrase
                                                                             
     incomplete construction
                                                                             
     inverted sentence structure
                                                                             
     run-on sentence
                                                                             

3. REVIEW STYLISTICS.

     common usage problems
                                                                             
     pronoun case usage
                                                                             
     agreement
a. subject & verb
                                                                             
b. pronoun & antecedent
                                                                             
     troublesome verbs (sit/set, etc.)
                                                                             
     use of
a. homonym
                                                                             
b. modifier
                                                                             
c. parallel structure
                                                                             
d. subjunctive mood
                                                                             

4. USE ORTHOGRAPHICS.

     apostrophe
                                                                             
     capital letter
                                                                             
     colon
                                                                             
     comma
                                                                             
     dashes
                                                                             
     end punctuation
                                                                             
     hyphen
                                                                             
     quotation marks
                                                                             
     semicolon
                                                                             
     underlining/italicizing
                                                                             

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