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English · Grade 8

Grammar, Revision and Editing for Effect

Learners edit like professionals. They identify gerunds, participles and infinitives and explain what each does, use the five verb moods and fix inappropriate shifts in voice and mood, punctuate pauses and breaks with commas, dashes and ellipses, mark omissions in quotations with an ellipsis, and polish a passage for correctness and effect.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 100 minutes
  • Grammar and editing check: 9 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, highlight a text, match pairs, sort into groups and write a short answer
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What learners will discover

  • Identify gerunds, participles and infinitives and explain their function in particular sentences.
  • Form verbs in the indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional and subjunctive moods, and correct inappropriate shifts in voice and mood.
  • Use commas, dashes and ellipses to show a pause or break, and an ellipsis to show an omission from a quotation.
  • Edit a passage for verb consistency, punctuation and spelling to improve correctness and effect.

Lessons

  1. Verbals: verbs doing other jobs 5 steps3 practiceabout 24 min
  2. Moods and consistent verbs 5 steps3 practiceabout 26 min
  3. Pauses, breaks and omissions 5 steps3 practiceabout 25 min
  4. Editing for correctness and effect 4 steps3 practiceabout 25 min
  5. Grammar and editing check 9 questions at the end

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