TODAY’S GOALS

• Introduce general strategies for editing and revision

• Discuss the English verb system, including verb tense, complex verb phrases, and subject-verb agreement,

EDITING AND REVISION

• Two types of revision:

• Local revision: whenever you make changes to a text that affect only one or two sentences. • Grammar and spelling revision usually falls into this category• Local revisions should be focused on towards the end of the writing process, after global revisions or

changes that affect the content of the essay

• Global revision: when a change in one part of your essay affects other parts of your essay• Any changes to your thesis statement or thesis question will likely fall here• Also includes changes to the main ideas of the essay, the structure, purpose, audience, and genre• Changes to topic sentences and transitions also fall here• You should be globally revising your essay throughout the writing process and certainly with every

new draft. • Global revisions are the most important revisions

EDITING AND LOCAL REVISION

• Editing, particularly with local revisions, requires two separate skills:

1. Perception• The ability to identify incorrect forms or parts of the essay that need revision

2. Knowledge• In order to make appropriate corrections, you must know the correct form

(spelling/grammatical/MLA format/etc.) to use or the intended goal of a piece and how best to accomplish it at the sentence level

We will work to cultivate both of these skills in our monthly editing and grammar classes

GRAMMAR BASICS

• Parts of speech• Noun• Adjective• Verb• Adverb• Article• Preposition

• English sentences require a: • Subject + verb phrase (or predicate)• Some verbs can stand alone as an entire phrase by themselves, but other

verbs will require one or two objects to make a complete sentence

GRAMMAR BASICS

• Nouns and pronouns can often be deceptively tricky when learning English• What are some examples of words that are not nouns but can function as

nouns in a sentence?

• Pronouns will have a subject form and object form depending on their function in a sentence

• In English, nouns can be classified as either COUNT nouns or MASS nouns• This classification will have an impact on subject-verb agreement as well as

what words can be used to modify these nouns

GRAMMAR BASICS

• Count nouns: • Can be quantified, counted, and made plural• Examples: chair, class, computer, book, light• Make sure you are using the correct singular or plural form for agreement

• Mass nouns: • Cannot be quantified, counted, or made plural• Example: sugar, reading, water, courage, wine• Mass nouns are considered singular for agreement purposes

• Test: • If you are not sure if a noun is count or mass, try adding one of the following words before it:

• few + noun, many + noun, two + noun• Count nouns can be modified in this manner while mass nouns cannot

UNIT 2 GRAMMAR: VERBS

General verb guidelines

• Every sentence requires a finite verb• Infinitives and auxiliary verbs do not count as finite verbs• Finite verbs will usually come in one of five forms: base form, past tense, past

participle, present participle, or –s form

• The verbs in an English sentence must agree with the person and number of the subject of that sentence

• Within a sentence that has multiple verbs, the verbs must agree in tense with one another

VERB TENSES

1. Base

2. Past (-ed)

3. Past Participle (-en/-ed)

4. Present Participle (-ing)

5. Third Person Singular (-s)

Note: the past and past participle tenses have many irregular forms depending on the verb

UNIT 2 GRAMMAR: VERBS

• Perfect• Have + past participle verb (usually –ed or –en)• I have eaten lunch already today

• Progressive• Be + present participle verb (-ing)• I am eating lunch right now

• Passive• Past be + past participle (subject and object are flipped from the original

sentence)• Normal: I performed the experiment• Passivized: The experiment was performed by me today

COMPOUND CONSTRUCTIONS

• Perfect Progressive• I have been fishing all over the world

• Perfective Passive• That experiment has been performed five times

• Progressive Passive• The apple was being eaten by worms

• Perfect Progressive Passive• Prometheus’ liver has been being eaten since the dawn of time

GROUP ACTIVITY: UNIT 1 GRAMMAR – PART 1 OF 2

• In your unit 1 groups

• Identify the verb phrase being used as passive, progressive, or perfect

1. Emily has taken that English course before

2. Mario is still trying to beat Jamie’s high score

3. The dragon was defeated by the knight

4. The bel had rung five times before I made it to class

5. Jason was being evaluated by his boss

Identify whether the noun below is mass or count

6. Rice

7. Soccer

8. notebook

9. Ice

10.Bottle

GROUP ACTIVITY:UNIT 1 GRAMAR PART 2 OF 2

• Edit all of the slide to make it corect.

11.They is the best soccer players in the division

12.After school, I went to the store, buy food, and visited my aunt

13.Maria am going to the movies

14.After I went to grandmas house, I do my homework

15.Cesar have five ices in his drink

EXTRA CREDIT

• There were two extra credit corrections located on the last slide. Did you find them?

REVIEW – 5 MINUTES

• Descriptive writing vocabulary (p.153-161 in I&A)• Dominant Impression• Concrete words• Active verbs• Descriptive verbs

• General reflective writing techniques (p. 187-202)

• Global vs. local revision

• Stages of reflection (class PowerPoint on 9-11)• Concrete experience• Reflective observation• Abstract conceptualization• Active experimentation

• Verb phrases:• Progressive• Perfect• Passive

QUIZ 2• (Content removed for online posting)

HOMEWORK

• WTR Draft 3 • Counts as Minor Essay 2 (a quiz grade)• Continue working on your WTR essay until it reaches 1,000+ words• This draft should be nearing completion and include your reflections and

descriptive details• Bring a printed copy to class and submit to Turnitin.com

• Class ID: 10693057• Password: 4English (case sensitive)