GRAMMAR & USAGE - Shields Middle School

GRAMMAR & USAGE

The classroom teacher may reproduce materials in this book for classroom use only. The reproduction of any part for an entire school or school system is strictly prohibited.

No part of this publication may be transmitted, stored, or recorded in any form without written permission from the publisher.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ISBN 0-8251-6055-3 Copyright ? 2006

J. Weston Walch, Publisher P.O. Box 658 ? Portland, Maine 04104-0658

Printed in the United States of America

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Table of Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv Parts of Speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Usage

Verb Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Pronoun Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Adjective/Adverb Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Mechanics Capitalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 Punctuation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Answer Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

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The Daily Warm-Ups series is a wonderful way to turn extra classroom minutes into

valuable learning time. The 180 quick activities--one for each day of the school year--practice language arts skills. These daily activities may be used at the very beginning of class to get students into learning mode, near the end of class to make good educational use of that transitional time, in the middle of class to shift gears between lessons--or whenever else you have minutes that now go unused. Daily Warm-Ups are easy-to-use reproducibles--simply photocopy the day's activity and distribute it. Or make a transparency of the activity and project it on the board. You may want to use the activities for extra-credit points or as a check on the language arts skills that are built and acquired over time. However you choose to use them, Daily Warm-Ups are a convenient and useful supplement to your regular lesson plans. Make every minute of your class time count!

Daily Warm-Ups: Grammar & Usage

Parts of Speech

Concrete and Abstract Nouns

mmar & Usage

A noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea. Examples: musician, studio, guitar, hope

Nouns can be concrete or abstract. The examples listed above are all concrete except the noun hope.

Daily

Warm-Ups:

Gra Based on the examples listed

concrete and an abstract noun.

above,

explain

the

difference

between

a

Think about some concrete and abstract nouns in your daily life. Make a list below.

Concrete

Abstract

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