If your student has prior grammar experience and can identify all of the parts of speech (noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, interjection) and all of the parts of the sentence (subject, predicate, direct object, indirect object, object of the preposition, predicate nominative, predicate adjective), you may request a placement test (placement test option is on enrollment form). Students who do not take a placement test will automatically be placed at the beginning of the course. Most students who take the placement test are still placed at the beginning of the course, but a few may be able to skip all or part of Level One.

For a student who works on the program three days a week for about 30 minutes a day, each level will take about a school year to finish. (Students may, of course, work longer each day and move through the program at a faster pace.)

Level One

Nouns

Pronouns

Action Verbs

Helping Verbs

Subject

Predicate

Direct Objects

Indirect Objects

Diagramming Simple Sentences

Linking Verbs

Predicate Adjectives

Predicate Nominatives

Adjectives

Adverbs

Prepositions and Their Objects

Conjunctions

Interjections

Level Two

Independent Clauses

Subordinating Conjunctions and Adverb Clauses

Sentence Fragments

Simple Sentences

Compound Sentences

Commas in Compound Sentences

Complex Sentences

Commas in Complex Sentences

Diagramming Compound and Complex Sentences

Run-On Sentences

Principal Parts of the Verb

Troublesome Verbs

Commonly Confused Words

Capitalization Rules

Adjective Clauses

Subject-Verb Agreement

Pronoun Usage – Subject vs. Object Pronouns

Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

Adjective and Adverb Usage 

Editing

Level Three

Noun Clauses and Diagramming

Apostrophe Usage

Quotation Marks and Punctuation of Quotations

Italics

Appositive Phrases

Gerunds and Gerund Phrases

Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases

Participles and Participial Phrases

Essential vs. Non-essential Phrases and Clauses

Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

Parallel Construction

Comma Placement (including when to set off phrases and clauses with commas)

Semicolon Usage

Extensive Editing

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