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English · Grade 9

Revision, Grammar and Rhetorical Choices

Learners use grammar as a set of choices rather than a list of rules. Working on one student report about a community mural, they combine choppy sentences with phrases and clauses, repair faulty parallelism, join ideas with semicolons and colons while fixing comma splices, and decide when active or passive voice, concision and sentence position best serve their audience. They finish by revising a paragraph and explaining their choices.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 125 minutes
  • Grammar and revision check: 10 questions
  • Ways to answer: fill in the blanks, choose an answer, highlight a text, sort into groups, arrange tiles and write a short answer
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What learners will discover

  • Identify independent and dependent clauses and prepositional, participial and appositive phrases, and use them to combine sentences for variety and meaning.
  • Use parallel structure in series, comparisons and paired conjunctions such as not only… but also.
  • Use semicolons and colons correctly and fix comma splices and run-on sentences.
  • Make rhetorical revision choices (active or passive voice, concision, emphasis by position) that suit audience and purpose.

Lessons

  1. Phrases and clauses: combine for meaning 6 steps3 practiceabout 32 min
  2. Parallel structure in revision 5 steps3 practiceabout 26 min
  3. Semicolons, colons and comma splices 5 steps3 practiceabout 32 min
  4. Rhetorical choices: voice, concision, emphasis 6 steps4 practiceabout 30 min
  5. Grammar and revision check 10 questions at the end

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