Sách Grammar in 15 Minutes a Day

Title: Grammar in 15 Minutes a Day

Series: Junior Skill Builders

Author(s): LearningExpress Editors

Publisher: LearningExpress

Date: 2008

Pages: 240

Size: 1.17 Mb

Format: PDF

Quality: High

Language: American English


Contents:

Students who need to improve their grammar skills can use this guide for 15 minutes a day to master parts of speech, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and more - in only one month! The pretest, posttest, glossary, and practice exercises help students score high on their next standardized test, classroom exam, or writing project.

Introduction 1

Pretest 3

S E C T I O N 1 : PA R T S O F S P E E C H 1 3

Lesson 1: Nouns 15

Understanding common, proper, concrete, abstract, collective,

and compound

Review exercises of all nouns

Lesson 2: Pronouns 23

Understanding personal, demonstrative, reflexive, intensive,

indefinite pronouns

Charts of subject, object, possessive, and indefinite pronouns

Review exercises of all pronouns

Lesson 3: Verbs 29

Understanding action, linking, and helping verbs

Chart of common helping verbs

Review exercises of all verbs

Lesson 4: Verb Tenses 35

Understanding regular and irregular verbs

Understanding present, past, future, present perfect, past

perfect, future perfect, present progressive, past progressive,

and future progressive tenses

Chart of common irregular verbs

Review exercises of regular and irregular verb forms in tensesv i c o n t e n t s

Lesson 5: Adjectives 43

Understanding common, proper, possessive, and

demonstrative adjectives

Review exercises of all adjective forms

Lesson 6: Adverbs 49

Understanding and identifying adverbs

Distinguishing between adjectives and adverbs

Review exercises of adverbs

Lesson 7: Comparative Adverbs and Adjectives 55

Understanding and identifying positive, comparative, and

superlative degrees of adverbs and adjectives

Review exercises of comparative adverbs and adjectives

Lesson 8: Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases 59

Understanding and identifying prepositional phrases and the

object of the preposition (OOP)

Chart of common prepositions

Review exercises of prepositions, prepositional phrases,

and OOPs

Lesson 9: Conjunctions 63

Understanding and identifying coordinating, correlative, and

subordinating conjunctions

Charts of coordinating, correlative, and

subordinating conjunctions

Review exercises of all conjunctions

S E C T I O N 2 : PA R T S O F A S E N T E N C E 7 1

Lesson 10: Subjects and Predicates 73

Understanding and identifying simple subjects and

predicates, tricky subjects, and complete subjects

and predicates

Review exercises of all subjects and predicates

Lesson 11: Direct and Indirect Objects 81

Understanding and identifying direct and indirect objects

Review exercises of direct and indirect objectscontents v i i

S E C T I O N 3 : B U I L D I N G A S E N T E N C E 8 5

Lesson 12: Phrases 87

Understanding and identifying adjective, adverb, appositive,

gerund, and participial phrases

Review exercises of all phrases

Lesson 13: Clauses 93

Understanding and identifying independent, subordinate,

and relative clauses

Charts of common subordinating conjunctions and relative

pronouns

Review exercises for all clauses

Lesson 14: Combining Sentences 99

Understanding and identifying simple, compound, complex,

and compound-complex sentences

Chart of simple sentence structures

Review exercises of sentence combining

Lesson 15: Fragments and Run-ons 105

Understanding and identifying sentence fragments and run-

on sentences

Review exercises of fragments and run-ons

S E C T I O N 4 : A G R E E M E N T 1 0 9

Lesson 16: Subject–Verb Agreement 111

Understanding the importance of subject–verb agreement in

written sentences and speech with singular, plural,

compound, and indefinite subjects

Chart of conjugated verb be according to number, form,

and person

Chart of personal and indefinite subject pronouns

Review exercises of subject–verb agreement

Lesson 17: Pronoun–Antecedent Agreement 117

Understanding the importance of pronoun–antecedent

agreement in written sentences and speech with singular,

plural, and indefinite pronouns

Chart of common English pronouns

Review exercises of pronoun–antecedent agreementv i i i c o n t e n t s

S E C T I O N 5 : P U N C T UAT I O N 1 2 3

Lesson 18: End Punctuation 125

Understanding periods, exclamation marks, question marks,

and their usage

Review exercises of all end marks

Lesson 19: Commas Part I 131

Understanding comma usage in sentences

Review exercises of comma usage and placement in sentences

Lesson 20: Commas Part II 135

Understanding of comma usage in letters and numbers

Review exercises of comma usage and placement in letters

and numbers

Lesson 21: Colons and Semicolons 141

Understanding colon and semicolon usage in writing

Conjunctive adverb chart

Review exercises of colon and semicolon placement

Lesson 22: Quotation Marks 147

Understanding quotation mark usage in written dialogue

Review exercises of quotation mark placement in

written dialogue

Lesson 23: Italicizing and Underlining 151

Understanding usage of italics and underlining in writing

Review exercises of italicizing and underlining

Lesson 24: Parentheses and Brackets 157

Understanding placement of parentheses and brackets

in writing

Review exercises of parentheses and brackets

Lesson 25: Hyphens and Dashes 163

Understanding placement of hyphens and dashes

Review exercises of hyphens and dashes

Lesson 26: Apostrophes 167

Understanding placement of apostrophes for contractions,

and singular and plural possessive nouns

Chart of contractions of common pronouns and helping verbs

Review exercises of apostrophes and apostrophe placementLesson 27: Capitalization 173

Understanding of capitalization of proper nouns, proper

adjectives, and titles

Review exercises of capitalization

S E C T I O N 6 : C O N F U S I N G W O R D S 1 7 7

Lesson 28: Troublesome Verbs 179

Understanding the verbs, lay/lie, sit/set, and did/done

Understanding the verbs except/accept, can/may, and hang/hung

Review exercises of troublesome verbs

Lesson 29: Tricky Words 185

Charts of common homonyms and homographs

Review exercises of common homonyms and homographs

Lesson 30: Misplaced Modifiers 193

Explanation and identification of dangling, squinting, and

split-infinitive modifiers

Review exercises of misplaced modifiers

Posttest 197

Hints for Taking Standardized Tests 207

Glossary 213