GarretTS#10

October 6th

Tonight I met with Khyrsi again. We spoke a little bit about her preparations to Venezuela before getting into her lesson. She re-wrote her essay and I expressed to her that I want to spend time with this essay and return it to her tomorrow when we met. I then asked her what she would like to do. She has a grammar test tomorrow and asked me to work on some of the exercises with her. The test is on the topics of adjective clauses and noun clauses. I found a website that explained these topics very well. I taught directly from the site. The site quotes:

"The adjective clause is used to modify a noun or a pronoun. It will begin with a relative pronoun (who, whose, whom, which, and that) or a subordinate conjunction (when and where). Those are the only words that can be used to introduce an adjective clause. The introductory word will always rename the word that it follows and modifies except when used with a preposition which will come between the introductory word and the word it renames. Examples: The student whose hand was up gave the wrong answer. Whose hand was up is the adjective clause with whose, the relative pronoun, renaming and modifying student. Jane is a person in whom I can place my confidence. Whom I can place my confidence is the adjective clause with whom, the relative pronoun, with the preposition in between it and person the word that whom renames and modifies. A noun clause is a dependent clause that can be used the same ways as a noun or pronoun. It can be a subject, predicate nominative, direct object, appositive, indirect object, or object of the preposition. Some of the words that introduce noun clauses are that, whether, who, why, whom, what, how, when, whoever, where, and whomever. Notice that some of these words also introduce adjective and adverb clauses. (To check a noun clause substitute the pronoun it or the proper form of the pronouns he or she for the noun clause.) Examples: I know who said that. (I know it.) Whoever said it is wrong. (He is wrong.) Sometimes a noun clause is used without the introductory word. Example: I know that he is here. (I know he is here.)" 

After explaining these concepts to her we did a few examples together. I believe that this helped to reinforce her understanding of the concepts.