Grammar Practice Workbook
Grammar and Composition
Grammar Practice Workbook
Teacher's Annotated Edition Grade 11
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Contents
Unit 10
Unit 11 Unit 12 Unit 13 Unit 15 Unit 16
Parts of Speech
10.1 10.2 10.3 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7?8
Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Action Verbs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Linking Verbs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Adverbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Prepositions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Conjunctions and Interjections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Parts of the Sentence
11.1?4 11.5 11.5 11.5
Subjects and Predicates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Direct and Indirect Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Object Complements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Subject Complements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Phrases
12.1 Prepositional Phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 12.2 Appositives and Appositive Phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 12.3 Participles and Gerunds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 12.3 Infinitives: Phrases and Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 12.4 Absolute Phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Clauses and Sentence Structure
13.1?4 13.5 13.6 13.7 13.8 13.9 13.10
Clauses and Sentence Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Adjective Clauses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Adverb Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Noun Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Four Kinds of Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Sentence Fragments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Run-on Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Verb Tenses, Voice, and Mood
15.1?3 15.4?5 15.6?7
Verbs: Principal Parts and Tense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Verb Tenses and Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Compatibility of Tenses and Voice of Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Subject-Verb Agreement
16.2?3 Subject-Verb Agreement I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 16.4?6 Subject-Verb Agreement II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
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Contents
Unit 17
Unit 18 Unit 20 Unit 21
Using Pronouns Correctly
17.1 17.2?3 17.4 17.5 17.6?7
Case of Personal Pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Pronouns with Appositives and Than and As . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Who and Whom in Questions and Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Pronoun Agreement and Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Using Modifiers Correctly
18.1?2 18.3?4 18.7
Making Comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Double and Incomplete Comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Capitalization
20.1 Capitalization: Sentences and I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 20.2?3 Capitalization: Proper Nouns and Adjectives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Punctuation, Abbreviations, and Numbers
21.1?3 Period, Exclamation Point, Question Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 21.4 The Colon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 21.5 The Semicolon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 21.6 Commas and Compound Sentences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 21.6 Commas and Coordinate Adjectives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 21.6 Commas and Nonessential Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 21.6 Commas: Titles, Addresses, Numbers and Direct Address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 21.6 Misuse of Commas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 21.7?8 The Dash and Parentheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 21.10 Quotation Marks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 21.10?11 Quotation Marks and Italics (Underlining) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 21.12 The Apostrophe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 21.13?14 The Hyphen and Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
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Grammar Practice
Name ...................................................................................... Class .................................................. Date ................................
10.1 Nouns
Key Information
A noun is a word that names a person, a place, a thing, or an idea.
A concrete noun names an object that occupies space or that can be recognized by the senses.
carpet
mouse
sky
An abstract noun names an idea, a quality, or a characteristic.
surprise
goodness intelligence
A singular noun names one person, place, thing, or idea. A plural noun names more than one.
A proper noun is the name of a particular person, place, thing, or idea.
Ernest Hemingway
Canada
November
A common noun is the general--not the particular--name of a person, a place, a thing, or an idea.
writer
country
month
Proper nouns are capitalized; common nouns are generally not capitalized.
A collective noun names a group.
jury
committee herd
s A. Identifying Nouns Underline all the nouns in the sentences below.
1. Preparation for an athletic event such as the New York City Marathon involves serious effort.
2. A weightlifter must have the capability to lift incredibly heavy weights. 3. Wrestlers wage individual battles but can earn points for a team. 4. Although basketball was invented in the United States, it is now played throughout the
world and is a part of the Olympics. 5. Soccer and lacrosse are sports that are gaining popularity in America. 6. A club sometimes sponsors swimmers, golfers, or other athletes in competitions. 7. A group of running events may be held on indoor tracks. 8. A league, such as the National Hockey League, can provide national organization. 9. A committee may judge events such as skating competitions. 10. In any sport only a handful will earn the reputation of a Monica Seles or a Michael Jordan.
s B. Using Nouns From the sentences above, list five examples of each of the following: Possible answers are given.
1. (proper nouns) _N__e_w_Y_o_r_k_C_i_ty__M_a_r_a_th_o_n_,_U_n_i_te_d__S_ta_t_e_s,_O_l_y_m_p_ic_s_,_N_a_t_io_n_a_l _H_o_c_k_ey__L_ea_g_u_e_,_M__o_n_ic_a_Seles 2. (collective nouns) __te_a_m_,_c_l_u_b,_g_r_o_u_p_, _le_a_g_u_e_, _co_m__m_i_tt_e_e__________________________________ 3. (concrete nouns) __w_e_i_g_ht_l_if_te_r,_w__e_ig_h_t_, _so_c_c_e_r,_s_w_i_m_m_e_r_s_, _tr_a_ck_s_____________________________ 4. (abstract nouns) _e_f_fo_r_t_, _ca_p_a_b_i_lit_y_, _p_o_p_ul_a_ri_ty_,_p_r_e_pa_r_a_t_io_n_,_re_p_u_t_a_ti_o_n________________________ 5. (plural nouns) __w_e_i_gh_t_s_, _sp_o_r_ts_,_a_t_h_le_te_s_,_e_v_e_n_ts_, _sw__im__m_e_r_s________________________________
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