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Vocabulary building and enhancement: Structural analysis: Suffixes, prefixes, and roots -- Compound words -- Use of context clues -- Linguistic signals -- Lexical collocations -- Word grammar: Verb-noun restrictions, co-occurrence restrictions, and semantic restrictions -- Following and giving instructions: Imperative sentences -- Prepositions and prepositional phrases -- Adverbs and adverbial modifiers -- Describing people and places: Types of adjectives -- S-LV-C sentence pattern -- Nouns and adjective compliments -- Appositives -- Absolute phrases -- Describing a process: -Ed and -ing adjectives -- Participial phrases -- Relative pronouns -- Relative clauses -- Defining and explaining: Subject-verb agreement -- The article system -- Negation -- Asking questions and interviewing: Yes/no questions with be verbs -- Yes/no questions with do verbs -- Yes/no questions with have verbs -- Short replies to yes/no questions -- Transforming yes/no questions from affirmative to negative -- Tag questions -- Wh questions (subject focus) -- Wh questions (predicate focus) -- Narrating events: Verbs and verb forms -- Transitive verbs and intransitive verbs -- S-IV and S-TV-DO sentence patterns -- Narrating experiences: Dependent and independent clauses -- Elliptical clauses -- Compound and complex sentences -- Tense shifts in conjoined sentences -- Unity of tense -- Gathering and giving information: Pronouns and antecedents -- Personal and indefinite pronouns -- Modal auxiliaries -- Verbals -- Comparing and contrasting: Degrees of comparison -- Conjunctions -- Conjunctive adverbs -- Asking for and giving opinions, agreeing, disagreeing, reasoning, making arguments, and emphasizing points of arguments: Purpose clauses -- Markers of purpose -- Reason clauses -- Reporting a process: Active and passive voices -- Unity of subject and voice -- Summarizing messages and generalizing: Verb-nouns restrictions -- Co-occurrence restrictions -- Semantic restrictions -- Communicating effectively through the using of linguistics signals and link words: Transition / linguistic markers -- Link words -- Communicating effectively with correct use of punctuation marks: Period -- Comma -- Colon -- Semi-colon -- Hypen -- Quotation marks -- Dash -- Exclamation point -- Apostrophe -- Communicating with clarity: Common grammatical errors.