handbook of english grammar and usage
Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Review of Verbs, Nouns, and Pronouns
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... to Mordor, and
he leaves secretly to continue it alone.
continued
REVIEW OF VERBS, NOUNS, AND PRONOUNS 65
Lesson
10
Review of
Verbs, Nouns,
and Pronouns
REVIEW OF VERBS, NOUNS, AND PRONOUNS ... ___________________.
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4. Ice becomes ___________________.
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5. Rembrandt and Picasso were ___________________.
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6. Iceland and Greenland are ___________________.
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In the exercise you have just ... a summary of the rules for forming
plurals of nouns.
must have lost
62 PARTS OF SPEECH
1. Olives imported from Spain are sold in supermarkets.
2. They spoke in words that were full of bitterness.
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... indicated.
Samples:
the plural of window
the singular of kittens
1. the singular of chairs
2. the plural of passenger
3. the singular of gloves
4. the plural of bandage
5. the plural of tree
kitten
windows
NOUNS ... bark of the dog
the visitor’s name
34 PARTS OF SPEECH
We are building up our library at: www.waystoenglish.com
We are building up our library at: www.waystoenglish.com
Review of Adjectives and ... and wife:
Change f to v and add s to form the plural.
knife knives
life lives
wife wives
EXERCISE 4.
Write the plural of the following nouns.
1. thief
2. riff
3. loaf
4. grief
5. roof
6. proof
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Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Adverbs
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... well
Extremely
82 PARTS OF SPEECH
ADJECTIVE WORD MODIFIED
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9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
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24.
25.
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27.
28.
29.
30.
90 PARTS OF SPEECH
Lesson
13
Review of
Adjectives
and Adverbs
REVIEW ... above passage.
Adverbs 1–5 and the words they modify are shown as samples. List the remaining
twenty-four adverbs and the words they modify, including the part of speech of the
words modified.
FIRST ... yesterday. (hoarse, hoarsely)
accurately
REVIEW OF ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS 93
EXERCISE 2.
Indicate whether the italicized word is an adverb or an adjective, and
tell what it modifies.
Samples:
The clock...
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Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Basic Paragraph Composition
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... sheet of paper or a paper
clip?” They have no intention of giving it back, and I really do not expect
them to. The same is true of pencils. How often has a teacher asked, “Will
you lend so -and- so ... abil-
ity and a competitive streak. These qualities helped him win the Kids
Triathlon at age 13 and, at age 16, become a professional triathlete. The
cycling part of the triathlon became his focus, and ... They are a major cause of air pollution, endangering the nation’s health.
______ 2. They destroy billions of dollars of property annually.
______ 3. They kill thousands of people (43,000 in 2002)...
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Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Compound Verbs
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... the subject and the verb of each sentence in the passage
you have just read. Caution: Some of the subjects are compound, and some of the verbs
are compound. The subject and the verb of the first ... was Ellen’s, and the handwriting was ______________, too.
EXERCISE 2.
Find the pronoun (
PRON
.) and its antecedent (
ANTECED
.), and write
them in the spaces at the right.
Samples:
Sandra said ... two verbs of the same subject, connected by and, give us the compound verb
stumbled and fell.
Here are more examples of compound verbs:
The wind all night.
S. compound verb
At night I often television.
S....
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Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Nouns
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... indicated.
Samples:
the plural of window
the singular of kittens
1. the singular of chairs
2. the plural of passenger
3. the singular of gloves
4. the plural of bandage
5. the plural of tree
kitten
windows
NOUNS ... predicted.
Did Terry and Mallika agree with you?
1. Vermont and New Hampshire are next to
each other.
Terry and Mallika
Rain or snow
Here are the singular and plural forms of a few more nouns.
SINGULAR ... verb connected by and or or.
1. Erin and Sean our group.
compound subject verb
Erin is a subject of the verb joined.
Sean is also a subject of the verb joined.
These two subjects of the same verb,...
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Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Prepositions
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... object
of the preposition.
He slammed the ball out of the infield.
PREP. OBJ. OF PREP.
(The noun infield is the object of the preposition out of. )
Please do not leave without us.
PREP. OBJ. OF PREP.
(The ... win and lose.)
4. A conjunction connects pronouns, or a noun and a pronoun:
You and she are always on time.
PRON. CONJ. PRON.
(The conjunction and connects the pronouns You and she.)
Alex and ... few prepositions consist of more than one word: because of, in spite of, etc.
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5. We were late because of the fog.
ADJ. PREP. N.
(The preposition because of relates the noun fog to...
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Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Problems with Capitalization
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... the republican candidate 7. lord of the rings: return of the king
3. english and history 8. grandma and aunt louise
4. the planet saturn 9. in the southwest near phoenix
5. fourth of july holiday ... Senate,
Department of the Interior
Titles of persons showing office, rank, profession
President Roosevelt, General Marshall, Dr. Reed, Professor Hutchinson
Names of planets, satellites, stars, and constellations
Jupiter, ... ___________________
Words Often Confused
In addition to words that are tricky to spell, English also has its share of words that are
easily and often—confused. Note the correct spelling of the words in...
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Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Problems with Nouns
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... adjectives (Lessons 11 and 13) and adverbs
(Lessons 12 and 13)—how they function, how they differ, and how some adverbs are
formed from adjectives. In this lesson, we touch on a couple of usage concerns.
Adjectives ... the cafeteria and sat down next to Page.
176 COMMON USAGE ERRORS
8. Alex walked confidently to the front of the room and speaks to the class.
9. My sister handed the clarinet to me and then cringes ... thrown
win won (have) won
wind wound (have) wound
write wrote (have) written
Forms of have and of be and do are often used as helping verbs: has left, were chosen,
do agree.
PROBLEMS WITH VERBS...
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Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Problems with Pronouns
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... letter to Karin and (I, me).
19. We saw Marisol and (he, him) in the stands at the baseball game.
20. (Him and I, He and I) went on a rafting trip on the Nantahala River.
Agreement of a Pronoun ... words and expressions; and use of
commas in letters, dates, and addresses.
Commas in a Series
Use a comma to separate items in a series.
Last summer we hiked, swam, golfed, and played softball.
My ...
is not capitalized as part of the name, but in The New York Times it is.
Sometimes the name of the city is part of the name of the paper, as in the
Chicago Sun-Times, and sometimes it isn’t.)
EXERCISE...
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Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Problems with Sentence Structure
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... Museum of Natural History, it has a fan-
tastic collection of gems.
7. When a duck and her five ducklings waddled across the street.
8. Four runners standing in the starting line.
168 COMMON USAGE ... SENTENCE
: Cats are more aloof.
COMPOUND SENTENCE
: Dogs show affection for their owners, but cats
are more aloof.
The parts of a compound sentence are often joined together by and, but, or, or nor.
These ... year.
166 COMMON USAGE ERRORS
Verbals as Fragments
Most of us play more than one role in life. You may be both a student and an athlete.
Your father may be a gardener and a police officer. Your...
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Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Sentence Composition
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... time of departure from Orlando and when the
bus arrives at Tampa.
b. I checked the bus schedule for the time of departure from Orlando and time of
arrival at Tampa.
2. a. The path to the summit of ... piles of money picked up a wad of cash with his
hands.
9. Bill waited outside of the classroom while Scott, who was very, very late, was still
inside of the classroom.
10. I fixed up each and every ... thousand languages in North and South America alone.
b. Throughout the world, the number of languages is decreasing rapidly, and once
there were more than a thousand languages in North and South...
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