Grade 9 English language arts
Here is a list of English language arts skills students learn in grade 9! These skills are organized into categories, and you can move your mouse over any skill name to preview the skill. To start practising, just click on any link. IXL will track your score, and the questions will automatically increase in difficulty as you improve!
Sentence structure
- A.1 Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory?
- A.2 Identify sentence fragments
- A.3 Identify run-on sentences
- A.4 Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons
- A.5 Is it a phrase or a clause?
- A.6 Identify prepositional phrases
- A.7 Identify appositives and appositive phrases
- A.8 Identify dependent and independent clauses
- A.9 Is the sentence simple, compound, complex or compound-complex?
- A.10 Combine sentences using relative clauses
Nouns
Pronouns
- C.1 Identify and correct errors with subject and object pronouns
- C.2 Subject and object pronouns review
- C.3 Pronouns after "than" and "as"
- C.4 Identify and correct pronoun errors with "who"
- C.5 Use relative pronouns: who and whom
- C.6 Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that
- C.7 Identify vague pronoun references
- C.8 Identify all of the possible antecedents
Verbs and verbals
- D.1 Identify transitive and intransitive verbs
- D.2 Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns
- D.3 Identify and correct errors with subject-verb agreement
- D.4 Identify and correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement
- D.5 Identify and correct verb agreement with compound subjects
- D.6 Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
- D.7 Form the progressive verb tenses
- D.8 Form the perfect verb tenses
- D.9 Identify active and passive voice
- D.10 Rewrite the sentence in active voice
- D.11 Identify participles and what they modify
- D.12 Identify gerunds and their functions
- D.13 Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases
Punctuation, capitalization and formatting
- F.1 Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, interrupters and antithetical phrases
- F.2 Commas with compound and complex sentences
- F.3 Commas with coordinate adjectives
- F.4 What does the punctuation suggest?
- F.5 Commas with nonrestrictive elements
- F.6 Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses
- F.7 Use semicolons, colons and commas with lists
- F.8 Semicolons, colons and commas review
- F.9 Use dashes
- F.10 Use hyphens in compound adjectives
- F.11 Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately
- F.12 Correct capitalization errors
- F.13 Capitalizing titles
- F.14 Formatting titles
- F.15 Formatting and capitalizing titles: review
- F.16 Formatting quotations and dialogue
Prefixes and suffixes
Etymologies and foreign expressions
- H.1 Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots
- H.2 Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
- H.3 Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
- H.4 Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
- H.5 Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots
- H.6 Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words
- H.7 Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions
- H.8 Use the correct foreign expression
Reference skills
Word choice and usage
Writing clear and concise sentences
- L.1 Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
- L.2 Avoid double, illogical and unclear comparisons
- L.3 Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions
- L.4 Identify sentences with parallel structure
- L.5 Use parallel structure
- L.6 Remove redundant words or phrases
- L.7 Misplaced modifiers with pictures
- L.8 Select the misplaced or dangling modifier
- L.9 Are the modifiers used correctly?
Common errors
- M.1 Use the correct homophone
- M.2 Identify and correct errors with homophones
- M.3 Use the correct frequently confused word
- M.4 Identify and correct errors with frequently confused words
- M.5 Identify and correct errors with frequently confused pronouns and contractions
- M.6 Correct errors with commonly misspelled words
- M.7 Correct errors with signs
- M.8 Correct errors in everyday use
Research writing
- N.1 Order topics from broadest to narrowest
- N.2 Organize information by main idea
- N.3 Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea
- N.4 Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 7th edition)
- N.5 Understand a Works Cited entry (MLA 7th edition)
- N.6 Use in-text citations with MLA formatting
- N.7 Identify plagiarism
Writing arguments
- O.1 Distinguish facts from opinions
- O.2 Identify thesis statements
- O.3 Choose evidence to support a claim
- O.4 Identify supporting evidence in a text
- O.5 Choose the most appropriate counterclaim for a given claim
- O.6 Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim
- O.7 Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis and counterclaims