Grammar Catz: Grammar Cat #72: Piano Cat

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Grammar Cat #72: Piano Cat

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IM IN UR PIANOE = I'm
You need an apostrophe for the contraction: I + am = I'm

IN UR PIANOE = in your piano,
Don't forget the comma!

TICKLIN UR IVOREEZ = tickling your ivories.
Don't forget the final period! This English idiom refers to the piano keys, made of ivory, as "ivories," and "to tickle the ivories" means to play the piano.

CCSS: SRSLY!!!!!
Parts of Speech

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1.1d: Use personal, possessive, and indefinite pronouns.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.1b: Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.1d: Form and use regular and irregular verbs.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.1f: Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1.1h: Use determiners (e.g., articles, demonstratives).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.1e: Use adjectives and adverbs.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.1g: Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs.

Punctuation, Capitalization, and Spelling

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1.2b: Use end punctuation for sentences.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1.2b: Use commas in a series.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.2c: Use an apostrophe to form contractions and frequently occurring possessives.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.4.1f: Produce complete sentences.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.4.2a: Use correct capitalization.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.4.2c: Use a comma before a coordinating conjunction in a compound sentence.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.5.2b: Use a comma to separate an introductory element from the rest of the sentence.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.5.2c: Use a comma to set off the words yes and no, to set off a tag question, and to indicate direct address.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.2a: Use punctuation to set off parenthetical elements.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.4.1g: Correctly use frequently confused words.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.2b ... CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.7.2b ... CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.8.2c ... CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.9-10.2c ... CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.2b: Spell correctly.