Grammar and Language Workbook

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Handbook of Definitions and Rules .........................1Troubleshooter ........................................................
Part 1 Grammar ......................................................45Unit 1 Subjects, Predicates, and Sentences
1.1 Kinds of Sentences: Declarative
1.2 and Interrogative .........................................47Kinds of Sentences: Exclamatory
1.3 and Imperative ............................................49Subjects and Predicates: Simple
1.4 and Complete ..............................................51Subjects and Predicates: Compound ..........
1.51.6 Simple and Compound Sentences .............55Sentence Fragments ....................................
1.7Unit 1 Review ..........................................................61Run-On Sentences.......................................
Cumulative Review .................................................
Unit 2 Nouns2.8 Nouns: Proper and Common ......................
2.9 Nouns: Singular and Plural ........................
2.102.11 Nouns: Collective ........................................67Nouns: Possessives .....................................
Unit 2 Review ..........................................................71Cumulative Review: Units 1–2................................
Unit 3 Verbs
3.123.13 Action Verbs and Direct Objects ................75Action Verbs and Indirect Objects .............
3.143.15 Transitive and Intransitive Verbs ...............79Linking Verbs and Predicate Words ..........
3.163.17 Verb Tenses: Present, Past, and Future .....83Main Verbs: Principal Parts ........................
3.183.19 Helping Verbs..............................................87Verb Forms: Present Progressive
3.20 and Past Progressive....................................89Perfect Tenses: Present and Past ................
3.21 Irregular Verbs I...........................................
3.223.23 Irregular Verbs II .........................................95Irregular Verbs III ........................................
3.24Unit 3 Review ........................................................101More Practice with Verb Forms ..................
Cumulative Review: Units 1–3 .............................
Unit 4 Pronouns4.25 Personal Pronouns ....................................
4.264.27 Using Pronouns Correctly.........................107Pronouns and Antecedents .......................
4.284.29 Possessive Pronouns .................................111Indefinite Pronouns ..................................
Unit 4 Review ........................................................115Cumulative Review: Units 1-4 ..............................
Unit 5 Adjectives 5.30 Adjectives and Proper Adjectives ............
5.31 Articles and Demonstratives.....................

5.32 Adjectives That Compare..........................
5.33Unit 5 Review ........................................................127Special Adjectives That Compare ............
Cumulative Review: Units 1–5..............................
Unit 6 Adverbs
6.34 Adverbs Modifying Verbs .........................
6.35 Adverbs Modifying Adjectives and Adverbs ..............................................
6.36 Adverbs That Compare .............................
6.37 Irregular Comparative Forms....................
6.38 Telling Adjectives and Adverbs Apart I .........................................
6.39 Telling Adjectives and
Adverbs Apart II........................................
6.40Unit 6 Review ........................................................145Avoiding Double Negatives ......................
Cumulative Review: Units 1– 6 .............................
Unit 7 Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections
7.41 Prepositions...............................................
7.42 Prepositional Phrases ................................
7.437.44 Pronouns After Prepositions.....................153Prepositional Phrases as Adjectives
and Adverbs ..............................................
7.45 Telling Prepositions and Adverbs Apart ...........................................
7.46 Conjunctions .............................................
7.47 Interjections...............................................
Unit 7 Review ........................................................163Cumulative Review: Units 1–7..............................
Unit 8 Subject-Verb Agreement8.48 Making Subjects and Verbs Agree ............
8.49 Subject Pronouns and
Verb Agreement.........................................
8.508.51 Locating the Subject..................................171Agreement with Compound
Subjects......................................................
Unit 8 Review ........................................................
Cumulative Review: Units 1– 8 .............................
Unit 9 Diagraming Sentences
9.52 Diagraming Simple Subjects and Simple Predicates ..............................
9.53 Diagraming the Four Kinds
9.54 of Sentences...............................................181Diagraming Direct and Indirect
Objects and Predicate Words ....................
9.55 Diagraming Adjectives and Adverbs ........
9.569.57 Diagraming Prepositional Phrases ............187Diagraming Compound
Sentence Parts ...........................................
Unit 9 Review ........................................................
Cumulative Review: Units 1– 9 .............................
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