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title: "7.L.GC.2: Syntax for Clarity and Style (Georgia English Language Arts standard)"
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# 7.L.GC.2: Syntax for Clarity and Style

Apply understanding of syntax to comprehend, analyze, condense, and combine ideas and information, enhancing clarity, style, and meaning.

- Subject: English Language Arts
- Appears in: Grade 7, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/ela/grade-7.md

## Expectations

- **7.L.GC.2.a**: Apply understandings of syntax to comprehend and analyze a variety of grade-level texts. (I)
- **7.L.GC.2.b**: Use a variety of simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to condense and combine ideas, maintaining consistent verb tense throughout the text. (C)
- **7.L.GC.2.c**: Distinguish between active and passive voice, revising texts to maintain consistency in active voice. (C)
- **7.L.GC.2.d**: Build and enrich ideas and information in texts, avoiding misplaced or dangling modifiers when incorporating details and descriptions to convey meaning and facilitate engagement. (C)
- **7.L.GC.2.e**: This progression begins in 9th grade.

## Georgia Milestones coverage

- English Language Arts Grade 7 (EOG). Language — Constructing Texts. Grammar Conventions Students observe, analyze, and use the structures and conventions of Standard English grammar, usage, and mechanics as they interpret and construct texts. (about 13% of the test; 8 points; shared with other standards, so count these points once and never add them up per standard)
- English Language Arts Grade 7 (EOG). Language — Interpreting Texts. Grammar Conventions Students observe, analyze, and use the structures and conventions of Standard English grammar, usage, and mechanics as they interpret and construct texts. (about 10% of the test; 6 points; shared with other standards, so count these points once and never add them up per standard)

## What mastery looks like

Georgia's Achievement Level Descriptors. The levels are cumulative: each includes the ones before it. Proficient is on grade level.

- **Beginning**: Determine when active voice should be used.
- **Developing**: Use a variety of simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to condense and combine ideas within a paragraph. Use active voice in sentences, ensuring subject-verb agreement. Determine when misplaced and/or dangling modifier(s) should be corrected in writing.
- **Proficient**: Apply understandings of syntax to comprehend and analyze a variety of grade-level texts. Use a variety of simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to condense and combine ideas, maintaining consistent verb tense throughout the text. Distinguish between active and passive voice, revising texts to maintain consistency in active voice. Build and enrich ideas and information in texts, avoiding misplaced or dangling modifiers when incorporating details and descriptions to convey meaning and facilitate engagement.

## The same standard across grades

- Kindergarten, K.L.GC.2: **Syntax** Recognize and compose coherent sentences that express complete thoughts. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/K.L.GC.2.md
- Grade 1, 1.L.GC.2: **Syntax** Recognize and compose coherent sentences that express complete thoughts. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/1.L.GC.2.md
- Grade 2, 2.L.GC.2: **Syntax** Recognize and compose coherent sentences that express complete thoughts. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/2.L.GC.2.md
- Grade 3, 3.L.GC.2: **Syntax** Apply understandings of sentence structure to comprehend and compose varied sentences. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/3.L.GC.2.md
- Grade 4, 4.L.GC.2: **Syntax** Apply understandings of sentence structure to comprehend and compose varied sentences. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/4.L.GC.2.md
- Grade 5, 5.L.GC.2: **Syntax** Apply understandings of sentence structure to comprehend and compose varied sentences. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/5.L.GC.2.md
- Grade 6, 6.L.GC.2: **Syntax** Apply understanding of syntax to comprehend, analyze, condense, and combine ideas and information, enhancing clarity, style, and meaning. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/6.L.GC.2.md
- **Grade 7, 7.L.GC.2 (this standard)**: **Syntax** Apply understanding of syntax to comprehend, analyze, condense, and combine ideas and information, enhancing clarity, style, and meaning.
- Grade 8, 8.L.GC.2: **Syntax** Apply understanding of syntax to comprehend, analyze, condense, and combine ideas and information, enhancing clarity, style, and meaning. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/8.L.GC.2.md
- Grade 9, 9.L.GC.2: **Syntax** Apply understanding of syntax to comprehend, analyze, evaluate, craft, and reshape sentences to achieve desired effects. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/9.L.GC.2.md
- Grade 10, 10.L.GC.2: **Syntax** Apply understanding of syntax to comprehend, analyze, evaluate, craft, and reshape sentences to achieve desired effects. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/10.L.GC.2.md
- Grade 11, 11.L.GC.2: **Syntax** Apply understanding of syntax to comprehend, analyze, evaluate, craft, and reshape sentences to achieve desired effects. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/11.L.GC.2.md
- Grade 12, 12.L.GC.2: **Syntax** Apply understanding of syntax to comprehend, analyze, evaluate, craft, and reshape sentences to achieve desired effects. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/12.L.GC.2.md

Source: Georgia Standards of Excellence, published by the Georgia Department of Education at case.georgiastandards.org.