Title: Rules for editing
Description: Basic rules for editing.
Standard(s):
[ELA] (6) 9: Utilize vocabulary and spelling skills, including using homonyms, synonyms, and antonyms in writing.
[ELA] (6) 10: Use punctuation correctly in writing, including apostrophes to show possession and semicolons joining two independent clauses.
[ELA] (6) 11: Apply the rules governing capitalization of proper adjectives, map directions and regions of the country, seasons, titles, words showing family relationships, subjects and courses, and divided quotations.
[ELA] (6) 12: Apply grammar conventions in writing with consistent verb tense; nominative, objective, and possessive pronouns; and subject-verb agreement when interrupted by a prepositional phrase.
[ELA] (7) 10: Apply mechanics in writing, including commas to set off nouns of address and following introductory phrases and clauses.
[ELA] (7) 11: Apply grammar conventions in writing to pronoun-antecedent agreement and to subject-verb agreement with inverted word order and with indefinite pronouns as subjects.
[ELA] (8) 9: Apply mechanics in writing, including punctuating titles using quotation marks, underlining, or italics and using semicolons, conjunctive adverbs, and commas to join two independent clauses or to correct run-on sentences.
[ELA] (9) 10: Determine correct use of commas with appositives and within direct quotations, colons to introduce lists, semicolons with a series of elements separated by commas, and punctuation for a divided quotation.
[ELA] (9) 11: Identify correct use of parallel words; incorrect verb tense shifts within sentences; correct number and tense in verb forms, including regular and irregular verbs; and correct forms of compound nouns, including singular, plural, and possessive forms.
[ELA] (9) 12: Apply the correct use of subject-verb agreement with collective nouns when verb forms depend on the rest of the sentence; with compound subjects, including those joined by or with the second element as singular or plural; and with the subjunctive mood.
[ELA] (10) 12: Demonstrate correct use of singular and plural collective nouns and words with alternate accepted forms; pronoun-antecedent agreement in number and gender; and nominative, objective, and possessive pronoun cases.
[ELA] (10) 13: Apply the correct use of subject-verb agreement with singular and plural subjects, including subjects compound in form and singular in meaning and subjects plural in form and singular in meaning; intervening prepositional and appositive phrases; and correlative conjunctions.
[ELA] (10) 14: Edit for incorrect shifts in verb tense in paragraphs, use of verbals, use of dangling participles and misplaced modifiers, and parallelism in phrases.
[ELA2010] (6) 37: Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. [L.6.1]
[ELA2010] (6) 38: Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. [L.6.2]
[ELA2010] (7) 36: Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. [L.7.1]
[ELA2010] (7) 37: Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. [L.7.2]
[ELA2010] (8) 36: Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. [L.8.1]
[ELA2010] (8) 37: Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. [L.8.2]
[ELA2010] (9) 36: Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. [L.9-10.1]
[ELA2010] (9) 37: Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. [L.9-10.2]
[ELA2010] (10) 37: Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. [L.9-10.1]
[ELA2010] (10) 38: Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. [L.9-10.2]