Grammar Made Easy: Weekly Grammar Club (Age 14-18)

Using tried and trusted methods, this ongoing class will enable students to master key grammatical concepts and apply them with fluency. The topics will change week by week. Details of upcoming classes are as follows:

Week beginning April 14:
Capitalization: Quotations, Titles, Cultures
Punctuation: Participial Phrases, Hyphens, Ellipses
Parts of Speech: Pronouns, Adverbs
Analogies
Compound and Complex Sentences
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning April 21:
Capitalization: Laws, Institutions, Quotations
Punctuation: Quotations
Parts of Speech: Conjunctions, Adverbs, Pronouns, Verbs
Fragments / Sentences / Run-Ons
Analogies
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning April 28:
Capitalization: Places, Days, Structures
Punctuation: Sentence Types, Initials, Friendly Letters
Parts of Speech: Verbs, Prepositions, Nouns
Identifying Subjects and Verbs
Phrases
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning May 5:
Capitalization: Roads, Initials, Businesses
Punctuation: Contractions, Appositives, Lists
Parts of Speech: Verbs, Prepositions, Nouns
Phrases
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning May 12:
Capitalization: Projects, Careers, Postal Codes, Proper Adjectives
Punctuation: Introductory Words, Addresses
Parts of Speech: Conjunctions, Pronouns, Nouns
Clauses
Phrases
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning May 19:
Capitalization: Greetings, Titles
Punctuation: Quotations
Parts of Speech: Adjectives, Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs
Identifying Subjects and Verbs
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning May 26:
Capitalization: Titles, Quotations
Punctuation: Quotations, Possessive Apostrophes
Parts of Speech: Adverbs, Verbs
Clauses
Phrases
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning June 2:
Capitalization: Documents, Events, Organizations
Punctuation: Hyphens, Possessive Apostrophes
Parts of Speech: Verbs, Prepositions, Nouns
Identifying Subjects and Verbs
Phrases
Analogies
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning June 9:
Capitalization: Letters and Titles
Punctuation: Quotations
Parts of Speech: Adjectives, Auxiliary Verbs, Nouns as Direct Objects, Pronouns
Identifying the Subject and Verb in a Sentence
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning June 16:
Capitalization: Businesses, Nationalities and Nicknames
Punctuation: Initial Adverbs, Cities and States, Dates
Parts of Speech: Verb Agreement, Interjections, Proper Adjectives
Phrases Versus Clauses
Participial and Prepositional Phrases
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentence

Week beginning June 23:
Capitalization: Languages and Academic Subjects
Punctuation: Introductory Words, Titles, Short Stories and Poems
Parts of Speech: Verb Tense and Verb Phrases, Pluralising Nouns
Dependent Versus Independent Clauses
Single and Compound Sentences
Analogies
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning June 30:
Capitalization: Awards, Outlines and Governments
Punctuation: Independent Clauses, Names, Possession
Parts of Speech: Descriptive Adjectives, Verbs, Pronouns
Participial Phrases
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning July 7:
Capitalization: Brand Names, Documents and Poetry
Punctuation: Quotations, Colons and Commas
Parts of Speech: Verbs, Adverbs and Nouns
Homophones
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning July 14:
Capitalization: Places, Planets and Quotations
Punctuation: Hyphens, Letters, Colons
Parts of Speech: Prepositions, Nouns and Adjectives
Homophones
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning July 21:
Capitalization: Religions
Punctuation: Appositives, Phrases and Titles
Parts of Speech: Verbs and Nouns
Phrases
Clauses
Analogies
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning July 28:
Capitalization: Hyphenated Proper Nouns, Periods of Time, Titles
Punctuation: Clarifications, Quotations, Interruptions
Parts of Speech: Verbs, Nouns and Adverbs
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning August 4:
Capitalization: Initials, Abbreviations, Parentheses, Seasons, Proper Adjectives
Punctuation: Outlines, Quotations, Semi-Colons, Ships and Space Vehicles
Parts of Speech: Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs
Participial Phrases
Prepositional Phrases
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning August 11:
Capitalization: Quotations, Hurricanes
Punctuation: Commas, Titles
Parts of Speech: Adjectives, Pronouns, Verbs, Conjunctions
Subject / Verb Agreement
Analogies
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning August 18:
Summer break

Week beginning August 25:
Capitalization: Titles, Languages, Nationalities, Brand Names, Businesses
Punctuation: Clauses, Colloquialisms, Interrupters, Verbals
Parts of Speech: Nouns, Verbs, Conjunctions, Adverbs
Phrases
Clauses
Analogies
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences

Week beginning September 1:
Capitalization: Subjects, Prisons, Hyphenated Words
Punctuation: Compound Nouns, Clauses Within Sentences, Colons, Independent Clauses
Parts of Speech: Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives, Adverbs, Verbs
Fragments / Sentences / Run-ons
Combining Basic Sentences into Longer, More Elegant Sentences