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Understanding Common Sentence Errors in English: Strategies for Improvement

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This lesson focuses on identifying and correcting common sentence errors, particularly subject-verb agreement, and confusion between simple past and past participle. Students will learn effective strategies for understanding these common mistakes through guided practice and reviewing relevant vocabulary. The lesson includes practice exercises from the Kaplan Packet and additional vocabulary review covering antonyms and synonyms for key terms. By honing these skills, students will enhance their writing clarity and accuracy.

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Understanding Common Sentence Errors in English: Strategies for Improvement

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  1. Unit 1, Lesson 2 2.10.14 Blue Team

  2. Sentence Errors Unit 1

  3. Strategy: Understand Common Mistakes • Complete Usage Common Mistakes # 1-4 in Kaplan Packet • Subject-Verb Agreement When Subject Follows Verb • Subject-Verb Agreement When Subject and Verb are Separated • Subject-Verb Agreement When the Subject Seems Plural • Confusion of Simple Past and Past Participle • Practice by answering #5 on page 143 and #8 on page 147 • Additional practice: pages 176-187

  4. Vocabulary Unit 1

  5. Review: Vocabulary Provide the correct vocabulary word for each of the following antonyms: • assuage • focus • unrealistic • disparage

  6. Review: Vocabulary • assuage: provoke • focus: digress • unrealistic: pragmatic • disparage: advocate

  7. 9. ambivalent • simultaneously experiencing opposite feelings; uncertain • synonyms: conflicted, equivocal, mixed

  8. 10. esoteric (adjective) • intended for or understood only by a small group • synonyms: obscure, hidden

  9. 11. ingenuity (noun) • quality of being cleverly inventive or resourceful • synonyms: brilliance, genius, dexterity

  10. 12. substantiate (verb) • to support with proof or evidence; to verify • synonyms: validate, justify, affirm

  11. 13. sentiment (noun) • an attitude, feeling, or opinion; refined or tender emotion • synonyms: position, tendency; softheartedness

  12. 14. abstruse (adjective) • difficult to understand • synonyms: perplexing, complex

  13. 15. eradicate (verb) • to get rid of as if by tearing up by the roots; to abolish • synonyms: annihilate, erase

  14. 16. autonomy (noun) • independence; self-determination • synonyms: sovereignty, self-rule

  15. Strategy: Predict an Answer/Find a Synonym Robert was extremely ___ when he received a B on the exam, for he was almost certain he had gotten an A.

  16. Strategy: Predict an Answer/Find a Synonym Robert was extremely ___ when he received a B on the exam, for he was almost certain he had gotten an A. • elated • dissatisfied • fulfilled • harmful • victorious

  17. Strategy: Predict an Answer/Find a Synonym Predict an answer, and then turn to page 96 to make actual selections. 3. With the discovery of a(n) ___ alternative fuels source, oil prices dropped significantly. 4. The product of a ___ religious home, he often found ___ in prayer. 5. Our ___objections finally got us thrown out of the stadium. 6. We should have ___trouble ahead when the road ___ into a gravel path. 7. The ___of the house, fresh lobster, was gone, so we ___ourselves with crab.

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