TOPICS TO STUDY FOR THE EXTRAORDINARY EXAM

TEMARIO PARA EXAMEN EXRAORDINARIO DE INGLES
Ciclo escolar: 2009 – 2010

Maestras: Claudia Torres y Claudia Rivera.

UNIT 1: The Sentence and Its Parts.

I-. Complete subjects and Predicates.
2-. Simple Subject.
3-. Simple predicates, or verbs.
4-. Verb Phrases.
5-. Compound sentence parts
6-. Kinds of sentences.
7-. Complements: Subject complements.
8-. Complements: Objects of Verbs

UNIT 2: Nouns

1-. Kinds of Nouns.
2-. Singular and Plural Nouns.
3-. Possessive Nouns.
4-. Compound nouns.

UNIT 3: Pronouns

1-. What is a pronoun?
2-. Subject pronouns.
3-. Object pronouns
4-. Possessive Pronouns
5-. Reflexive and intensive pronouns
6-. Interrogatives and demonstratives
7-. Pronoun Agreement.
8-. Indefinite – pronoun agreement.

UNIT 4: Verbs

1-. What is a verb?
2-. Linking verbs and predicate words.
3-. Irregular verbs
4-. Simple tenses
5-. Using verb tense
6-. Troublesome verb pairs.

UNIT 5: Adjectives and adverbs.

1-. What is an adjective.
2-. Predicates adjectives.
3-.What is an adverb?
4-. Adjective or adverb?
5-. Avoiding double negatives.

Unit 6: Preposition:

1-. What is a preposition?
2-.Using prepositional phrases.


Unit 9: Subject – Subject - verb agreement.

1-. Agreement in number.
2-. Compound subjects.
3-. Agreement Problems in Sentences
4-. Indefinite Pronouns as Subjects.
5-. Problem Subjects


Unit 10: Capitalization:

1-. People and cultures.
2-. First Words and Titles.

Unit 11: Punctuation:

1-. Commas in sentences
2-. Commas: Dates, addresses, and letters.
3-. Semicolons and Colons.
4-. Hyphens, Dashes, and Parentheses.
5-. Apostrophes.