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I. Grammatical Structures (continued)
Transition words and phrases
conjunctions: and, but, or, because
Question forms
yes/no (e.g., Are you a student?Yes, I am/No, I’m not. Do you live in Canada? Yes, I do/No, I don’t. Did they talk to you? Yes, they did/No, they didn’t. Will you join our group? Yes, I will/No, I won’t.)
information questions: what, where, when, who, why, how
Negation
be in simple present (e.g., He is not here/He isn’t here.)
do (e.g., We don’t like that. It doesn’t work. We didn’t watch the game.) will (e.g., They won’t eat these cookies.)
Prepositions
of location (e.g., in, on, at, under, beside, on the right/left) of direction (e.g., to, from)
of time (e.g., at, before, after, on, in)
Sentences
simple sentence: subject + verb + object or prepositional phrase (e.g., She reads books. She reads in the classroom.)
II. Conventions of Print
Punctuation
final punctuation: period, question mark, exclamation mark
apostrophe: contractions and possessive forms (e.g., He’s buying a hat. The boy’s hat is red.)
Capitalization
first word in a sentence (initial capitalization) proper nouns (e.g., names of people and places)
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