Language Handbook Worksheets

Language Handbook Worksheets

Answer Key

Second Course

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Table of Contents

The Parts of Speech. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Agreement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Using Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Using Pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Using Modifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Complements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Kinds of Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Writing Effective Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Capital Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Punctuation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Punctuation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Punctuation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Spelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Glossary of Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

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1 The Parts of Speech

Worksheet 1

Identifying Nouns

21. himself

22. they

23. his

24. it

25. himself

Exercise A

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

people; hours; sleep

Edison

man; schedule; life

night; living

day

notebooks; notes; books; experiments

hours; sleep

powers; concentration

project; days; rest

definition; genius; inspiration; perspiration

Exercise B

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

Chinua Achebe; writer; Nigeria

Nobel Peace Prize; Mother Teresa; year

Tuesday; Margaret; job; Japan

team; (gold) medal; hockey; Olympics

girl; student; Colombia

baseball; Ellen; mitt; shoes

earrings; Debbie; birthday

Armand; chef; brother-in-law

Four; groups; Nigeria; Ibo; Hausa; Fulani;Yoruba

family; Empire State Building; New York City

Worksheet 2

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Identifying and Using Pronouns

Exercise A

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

My; her; which; she; herself

this

Which; itself; one

that; everyone

Who; it; her

Exercise B

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

Some

it

who

his

He

he

his

He

his

They

(Pronouns may vary.)

11. no one

12. his

13. Some

14. them

15. his

16. What

17. They

18. he or she

19. They

20. us

Worksheet 3

Identifying Adjectives

(If you classify possessive

pronouns as adjectives, then answers that are

underscored may be considered correct.)

1. young; whimsical

2. his; humorous; many; foreign; unknown; his;

native

3. his; first; popular; successful

4. His; quaint; rural; delightful

5. Most

6. These; supernatural

7. many; pleasant

8. Moorish

9. this; comfortable

10. long; literary

Exercise A

(The first item in a pair is the

adjective. The second is the word modified. If you

classify possessive pronouns as adjectives, then

answers that are underscored may be considered

correct.)

1. unique¡ªform; Japanese¡ªpoetry

2. short¡ªpoem; strong¡ªemotion; vivid¡ªimage;

few¡ªwords

3. English¡ªtranslations; several¡ªpoems;

Japanese¡ªpoems; our¡ªteacher; our¡ªpoet;

favorite¡ªpoet; brief¡ªreport

4. Our¡ªreports; accurate¡ªreports; two¡ªhours

5. great¡ªplace

6. eager¡ªI; my¡ªsubject; famous¡ªpoet

7. his¡ªpoetry; wonderful¡ªpoetry

8. excellent¡ªtips; which¡ªbooks; poetry¡ªbooks

9. My¡ªteacher; her¡ªpoet; favorite¡ªpoet;

Japanese¡ªpoet

10. My¡ªfriend; best¡ªfriend; these¡ªpoets

Exercise B

Answer Key

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