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Advanced Grammar Lessons
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- Teaching the Passive Verb Tense System
- This section builds on the active verb tense system lesson with a focus on explaining the structure of a passive sentence as well as the formulas for all 12 passive verb tenses. It also addresses some problematic issues like passives with objects of a preposition and indirect objects.
- Teaching Noun Clauses - This section contains a straightforward, organized way to teach noun clauses. It begins with a brief review of what nouns do and connects this to noun clauses. Next, noun clauses are broken down into three common jobs they do: as direct objects, as subjects, and as subject complements.
- Teaching Adjective Clauses - This section contains a comprehensive explanation for teaching adjective clauses. It begins with an overview of the four basic types of adjective clauses and divides them into two groups. Next, step-by-step explanations for how to reduce and front each type of clause are presented along with sections detailing common issues students encounter.
- Teaching Reduced Adverb Clauses - This section contains a comprehensive explanation for teaching reduced adverb clauses in both their active and passive forms. It begins with an overview of the basic types of adverb clauses and covers step-by-step explanations for how to reduce active clauses and then passive clauses. Each section also includes pointers detailing common issues students encounter.
- Teaching Inverted Conditionals - This section contains a comprehensive explanation for teaching inverted conditionals in both their active and passive forms. It covers step-by-step explanations for how to invert past, present, and future real conditionals as well as present and past unreal in their simple and continuous forms.
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