use and understand the function of the following parts of speech in the context of reading, writing, and speaking: (i) verbs (irregular verbs), (ii) nouns (singular/plural, common/proper), (iii) adjectives (e.g., descriptive, including purpose: sleeping bag, frying pan) and their comparative and superlative forms (e.g., fast, faster, fastest), (iv) adverbs (e.g., frequency: usually, sometimes; intensity: almost, a lot), (v) prepositions and prepositional phrases to convey location, time, direction, or to provide details, (vi) reflexive pronouns (e.g., myself, ourselves), (vii) correlative conjunctions (e.g., either/or, neither/nor), (viii) use time-order transition words and transitions that indicate a conclusion
