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8th Grade English Fall Semester Exam Review
TAKE notes
here!
MAKE notes
here!
Part I: Taking Notes
1. You take notes to MAKE notes
2. Your notes should always have a TITLE and a DATE at the top.
3. We use Cornell style notes:
4. Complete the chart to the right:
5. The 3 steps to taking good notes are:
1. Listen
2. Write
3. Review
6. When listening during note taking, you should listen cognitively, responsibly, purposefully, and actively.
7. When you write, you should write only what is important develop a shorthand, and be sure to write legibly.
8. Reviewing your notes should happen as soon as possible after you take the notes.
Part II: Sentence Structure
1. What is a clause? Group of related words that have a subject and a verb
2. What is an independent clause? A clause that is a complete thought (main clause)
3. What is a dependent clause? Clause that is NOT a complete thought (subordinate clause)
4. What is a subordinating conjunction? Words that turn independent clauses into dependent clauses
5. What is a connective adverb? Words that connect two independent clauses to form CD2 sentences
6. A simple sentence = Independent clause + capital letter + appropriate end mark + complete thought
7. A fragment is an incomplete sentence (missing capital letter, end mark, complete thought, subject, verb)
8. A compound sentence is two or more independent clauses joined together correctly
9. The three ways to form a compound sentence are:
CD1 = IND + COMMA + FANBOYS + IND
CD2 = IND + SEMICOLON (;) + CONNECTIVE ADVERB + COMMA + IND
CD3 = IND + SEMICOLON (;) + IND
10. A run-on sentence is two or more independent clauses written together incorrectly
11. A comma splice is two or more independent clauses joined by only a comma
12. A complex sentence is an independent clause and a dependent clause joined together correctly
13. The two ways to form a complex sentence are:
CX1 = DEP + COMMA + IND
CX2 = IND + DEP
Part III: Progressive and Perfect Tense Verbs
1. What is a verb tense? Shows when the action takes place (the time of the verb)
2. The 4 principal parts of a verb are:
1. Present (infinitive) - base form of the verb (the “dictionary” form)
2. Present participle - base form + -ing
3. Past - base form + -ed ; may also be irregular
4. Past participle - base form + -ed ; may also be irregular
3. In what order are the principal parts of the verb listed in the dictionary?
Past tense, past participle (if irregular), present participle, 3rd person singular present
4. What is perfect tense? Action that is completed or will be completed at a specific time
1. Present perfect is formed by adding has/have to the past participle
2. Past perfect is formed by adding had to the past participle
3. Future perfect is formed by adding will have to the past participle
5. What is progressive tense? Action that is not yet completed (on going / continuous)
1. Present progressive is formed by adding am/is/are to the present participle
2. Past progressive is formed by adding was/were to the present participle
3. Future progressive is formed by adding will be to the present participle
Part IV: Parts of Speech and Sentence Labeling
1. What are the four types of sentences? Exclamatory, interrogative, imperative, declarative
2. Be able to identify a prepositional phrase in a sentence.
3. Be able to identify the simple subject of a sentence (including understood you).
4. Be able to identify the complete subject of a sentence.
5. Be able to identify the simple predicate of a sentence.
6. Be able to identify the complete predicate of a sentence.
7. Be able to identify the adjectives in a sentence.
8. Be able to identify the adverbs in a sentence.
9. Be able to identify the articles in a sentence.
10. Recognize the order of a sentence as either natural, inverted, or as having an adverb exception.
Sample sentences:
Label the parts of speech in each of the sentences below. Underline the complete subject once, the complete
predicate twice. Identify the type of sentence (D, IMP, INT, E).
____1. Have you carefully looked in the boxes in the back of Mom’s closet for your present today?
____2. The storage boxes with the crystal decorations should be opened very carefully.
____3. Stand in line for the concert tickets for your mother’s birthday present late in spite of your hurting feet!
____4. The exhausted boy slept through the fire alarm in his classroom after his huge lunch!