Language Usage
Virginia SOL 4.LU.1
Use the conventions of Standard English grammar in speaking and writing.
What students need to be able to do
- Produce, expand, and rearrange simple and compound sentences, including prepositional phrases.
- Use coordinating conjunctions to join words and phrases in a sentence.
- Use subordinating conjunctions to join words and phrases in a sentence.
- Use adjectives to compare and describe noun or noun phrases with specificity.
- Use modal words to convey various conditions.
- Use standard subject-verb agreement.
- Use standard noun-pronoun agreement.