Virginia SOL 2.LU.1

What students need to be able to do

• Produce and expand complete sentences, both simple and compound.
• Use indefinite (e.g., anybody, anything) reflexive (e.g., yourself, herself) pronouns.
• Form and use regular and frequently occurring irregular plural nouns (e.g., men, teeth).
• Use frequently occurring conjunctions to signal simple relationships (e.g., and, but, or, so, because).
• Use proper verb tense, including for frequently occurring irregular verbs (e.g., ran, told, went).
• Use subject-verb agreement in simple sentences.
• Use common abbreviations.
• Use contractions and singular possessives.
• Eliminate double negatives when speaking.