Grammar Practice Workbook
Grammar and Composition
Grammar Practice Workbook
Grade 10
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Contents
Unit 10
Unit 11 Unit 12 Unit 13 Unit 15
Parts of Speech
10.1 Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 10.2 Interrogative and Relative Pronouns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 10.3 Action Verbs and Verb Phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 10.3 Linking Verbs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 10.4 Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 10.5 Adverbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 10.6 Prepositions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 10.7 Subordinating Conjunctions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Parts of the Sentence
11.3 Compound Subjects and Predicates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 11.5 Indirect Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 11.5 Object Complements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 11.5 Subject Complements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Phrases
12.1 Prepositional Phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 12.2 Appositives and Appositive Phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 12.3 Participles and Participial Phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 12.3 Gerunds and Gerund Phrases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 12.3 Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Clauses and Sentence Structure
13.1, 3 13.5 13.6 13.7 13.8 13.9 13.10
Main Clauses; Simple and Compound Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Adjective Clauses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Adverb Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Noun Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Four Kinds of Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Sentence Fragments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Run-on Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Verb Tenses and Voice
15.2 Regular and Irregular Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 15.4 Perfect Tenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 15.7 Voice of Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
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Unit 16 Unit 17
Unit 18 Unit 20 Unit 21
Subject-Verb Agreement
16.2 Agreement with Linking Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 16.4?5 Agreement with Special Subjects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Using Pronouns Correctly
17.1 Case of Personal Pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 17.2 Pronouns with and as Appositives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 17.3 Pronouns After Than and As . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 17.5 Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 17.6 Clear Pronoun Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Using Modifiers Correctly
18.2 Irregular Comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 18.4 Incomplete Comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 18.7 Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Capitalization
20.1 Capitalization of Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 20.2?3 Capitalization of Proper Nouns and Proper Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Punctuation, Abbreviations, and Numbers
21.1?3 End Punctuation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 21.4 The Colon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 21.5 The Semicolon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 21.6 Commas and Coordinate Adjectives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 21.6 Commas and Compound Sentences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 21.6 Commas with Parenthetical Expressions and Conjunctive Adverbs . . . . . . 45 21.6 Commas with Direct Address and Tag Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 21.6 Misuse of Commas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 21.7 The Dash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 21.9 Quotation Marks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 21.10 Italics (Underlining) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 21.11 The Apostrophe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 21.12?13 Hyphens and Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
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Grammar Practice
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10.1 Nouns
Key Information
A noun names a person, place, thing, or idea.
A concrete noun names an object that can be recognized by any of the senses; an abstract noun names an idea, a quality, or a characteristic.
A proper noun names a particular person, place, thing, or idea; a common noun is the general name of a person, place, thing, or idea.
A collective noun names a group and can be regarded as either singular or plural.
s A. Identifying Nouns
Underline the nouns in the following sentences. 1. During the early years of the United States, thousands of settlers traveled west to build new homes. 2. Women and men worked together to clear the land, plant crops, and build homes. 3. Besides this work, women tended the children and did housekeeping chores. 4. They prepared food to use during the winter. 5. They made clothes for the whole family and used homemade soap to wash the laundry. 6. A frontier mother was often the only teacher her children had. 7. Because there were few doctors, women had to take care of the medical needs of their families. 8. Settlers usually lived so far apart that isolation was a common problem. 9. Sometimes pioneer families became friends with Native Americans who lived nearby.
10. To help fight loneliness, many women wrote journals and diaries about their lives and experiences.
s B. Identifying Noun Types
From the nouns you identified in the sentences above, list an example for each type of noun. Collective noun __f_a_m_il_y____________________________________________P_o_ss_i_bl_e_a_n_s_w_e_r_s_a_r_e_g_iv_e_n. Abstract noun __is_o_la_t_io_n_,_l_o_n_e_lin_e_s_s______________________________________________________ Concrete noun _w__o_m_e_n_,_la_n_d_,_U_n_i_te_d__S_ta_t_e_s_______________________________________________ Common noun __y_e_ar_s_, _se_t_tl_e_rs_,_jo_u_r_n_a_ls___________________________________________________ Proper noun__U__n_it_e_d_S_t_a_te_s_,_N_a_t_iv_e_A__m_e_r_ic_a_n_s________________________________________________
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