9th Grade Hit List
1st Semester
PARTS OF SPEECH
1. Noun (common, proper, compound)
2. Pronoun (case: pronouns for subjects or for objects)
3. Adjective
4. Verbs: a. helping, b. main—action (transitive/intransitive) linking
5. Adverb
6. Preposition (prepositional phrases)
7. Conjunction (coordinating, correlative, subordinating)
8. Interjection
PARTS OF SENTENCE
1. Subjects
2. Predicates including direct object and indirect object
3. Complements including subjective vs. objective
4. Punctuation (semi-colons, colons, ellipses, hyphens) and end punctuation
5. Capitalization
6. Sentence types interrogative, declarative, imperative, exclamatory
2nd Semester
Practice the First
Semester “Grammar Hit List,” and teach-
PARTS OF SENTENCE
7. Phrases—prepositional, verbal (gerunds, infinitives, participial), appositive
8. Clauses—independent, subordinate (adjective, adverb, noun)
9. Agreement (subject-verb, pronoun-antecedent)
10. Parallel structure