Ch 2: Sentence Structure - Understanding Grammar: Tutoring Solution

How it works:

• Begin your assignment or other NY Regents Exam - Comprehensive English work.
• Identify the sentence structure and grammar concepts that you're stuck on.
• Find fun videos on the topics you need to understand.
• Press play, watch and learn!
• Complete the quizzes to test your understanding.
• As needed, submit a question to one of our instructors for personalized support.

Who's it for?

This chapter of our NY Regents Exam - Comprehensive English tutoring solution will benefit any student who is trying to learn sentence structure and grammar and earn passing scores on the NY Regents Exam. This resource can help students including those who:

• Struggle with understanding subject-verb agreement, conjunctions, gerunds or any other sentence structure and grammar topic
• Have limited time for studying
• Want a cost effective way to supplement their English review for the NY Regents Exam
• Prefer learning English visually
• Find themselves failing or close to failing their sentence structure and understanding grammar review unit
• Cope with ADD or ADHD
• Want to get ahead in preparing for the NY Regents Exam - Comprehensive English
• Don't have access to their English teacher outside of class

Why it works:

• Engaging Tutors: We make learning sentence structure and grammar simple and fun.
• Cost Efficient: For less than 20% of the cost of a private tutor, you'll have unlimited access 24/7.
• Consistent High Quality: Unlike a live English tutor, these video lessons are thoroughly reviewed.
• Convenient: Imagine a tutor as portable as your laptop, tablet or smartphone. Learn sentence structure and grammar for the NY Regents Exam on the go!
• Learn at Your Pace: You can pause and rewatch lessons as often as you'd like, until you master the material.

Learning Objectives

• Differentiate between independent and dependent clauses, and subordination and coordination.
• Avoid sentence fragments, run-on sentences and comma splices.
• Identify a sentence's subject.
• Understand how to select subject and object pronouns.
• Describe the differences between first-person, second-person and third-person point-of-view.
• Learn how to ensure subject-verb agreement.
• Differentiate between coordinating and correlative conjunctions.
• Explain how to combine independent and dependent clauses.
• Identify parallel sentences.
• Describe ways to avoid 'mixed structure' sentences.
• Learn the proper use of 'who' and 'whom', and 'whose' and 'who's'.
• Explain whether gerunds are verbs or nouns.
• Understand the difference between direct and indirect objects.