1. Today’s Goals Introduce general strategies for editing and revision
Discuss the English verb system, including verb tense, complex verb phrases, and subject-verb agreement,

2. Editing and Revision Two types of revision:
Local revision: whenever you make changes to a text that affect only one or two sentences.
Grammar and spelling revision usually falls into this category
Local revisions should be focused on towards the end of the writing process, after global revisions or changes that affect the content of the essay
Global revision: when a change in one part of your essay affects other parts of your essay
Any changes to your thesis statement or thesis question will likely fall here
Also includes changes to the main ideas of the essay, the structure, purpose, audience, and genre
Changes to topic sentences and transitions also fall here
You should be globally revising your essay throughout the writing process and certainly with every new draft.
Global revisions are the most important revisions

3. Editing and local revision
Editing, particularly with local revisions, requires two separate skills:
Perception
The ability to identify incorrect forms or parts of the essay that need revision
Knowledge
In order to make appropriate corrections, you must know the correct form (spelling/grammatical/MLA format/etc.) to use or the intended goal of a piece and how best to accomplish it at the sentence level
We will work to cultivate both of these skills in our monthly editing and grammar classes

4. Grammar Basics Parts of speech English sentences require a: Noun
Adjective
Verb
Adverb
Article
Preposition
English sentences require a:
Subject + verb phrase (or predicate)
Some verbs can stand alone as an entire phrase by themselves, but other verbs will require one or two objects to make a complete sentence

5. Grammar basics
Nouns and pronouns can often be deceptively tricky when learning English
What are some examples of words that are not nouns but can function as nouns in a sentence?
Pronouns will have a subject form and object form depending on their function in a sentence
In English, nouns can be classified as either COUNT nouns or MASS nouns
This classification will have an impact on subject-verb agreement as well as what words can be used to modify these nouns

6. Grammar Basics Count nouns: Mass nouns:
Can be quantified, counted, and made plural
Examples: chair, class, computer, book, light
Make sure you are using the correct singular or plural form for agreement
Mass nouns:
Cannot be quantified, counted, or made plural
Example: sugar, reading, water, courage, wine
Mass nouns are considered singular for agreement purposes
Test:
If you are not sure if a noun is count or mass, try adding one of the following words before it:
few + noun, many + noun, two + noun
Count nouns can be modified in this manner while mass nouns cannot

7. Unit 2 Grammar: Verbs General verb guidelines
Every sentence requires a finite verb
Infinitives and auxiliary verbs do not count as finite verbs
Finite verbs will usually come in one of five forms: base form, past tense, past participle, present participle, or –s form
The verbs in an English sentence must agree with the person and number of the subject of that sentence
Within a sentence that has multiple verbs, the verbs must agree in tense with one another

8. Verb Tenses Base Past (-ed) Past Participle (-en/-ed)
Present Participle (-ing)
Third Person Singular (-s)
Note: the past and past participle tenses have many irregular forms depending on the verb

9. Unit 2 Grammar: Verbs Perfect Progressive Passive
Have + past participle verb (usually –ed or –en)
I have eaten lunch already today
Progressive
Be + present participle verb (-ing)
I am eating lunch right now
Passive
Past be + past participle (subject and object are flipped from the original sentence)
Normal: I performed the experiment
Passivized: The experiment was performed by me today

10. Compound Constructions
Perfect Progressive
I have been fishing all over the world
Perfective Passive
That experiment has been performed five times
Progressive Passive
The apple was being eaten by worms
Perfect Progressive Passive
Prometheus’ liver has been being eaten since the dawn of time

11. Group activity: Unit 1 grammar – part 1 of 2
In your unit 1 groups
Identify the verb phrase being used as passive, progressive, or perfect
Emily has taken that English course before
Mario is still trying to beat Jamie’s high score
The dragon was defeated by the knight
The bel had rung five times before I made it to class
Jason was being evaluated by his boss
Identify whether the noun below is mass or count
Rice
Soccer
notebook
Ice
Bottle

12. Group activity: Unit 1 gramar part 2 of 2
Edit all of the slide to make it corect.
They is the best soccer players in the division
After school, I went to the store, buy food, and visited my aunt
Maria am going to the movies
After I went to grandmas house, I do my homework
Cesar have five ices in his drink

13. Extra credit
There were two extra credit corrections located on the last slide. Did you find them?

14. Quiz 2 Review Descriptive writing vocabulary (p.153-161 in I&A)
Dominant Impression
Concrete words
Active verbs
Descriptive verbs
General reflective writing techniques (p )
Global vs. local revision
Stages of reflection (class PowerPoint on 9-11)
Concrete experience
Reflective observation
Abstract conceptualization
Active experimentation
Verb phrases:
Progressive
Perfect
Passive

15. Homework WTR – Final Draft Due Tuesday 6-7 to Turnitin.com by midnight
Paper copies not accepted
1,000+ words
Concrete descriptions of your settings and characters
All four stages of the reflection cycle

16. Group activity: Final peer review
Exchange essays with one other person
Read through the essay and answer the questions below:
Find the best 2 character descriptions in the essay. Who are these characters? How many senses are used in each description? What is the dominant impression of these descriptions?
Find the best 2 setting descriptions in the essay. What are these places? How many senses are used in each description? What is the dominant impression of these descriptions?
How does the writer feel about the selected location? What did the writer learn from this location or how did it shape who they are? What would the writer do differently if they repeated this experience?