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<p>How to Use this Book • xv</p> <p><b>Section One Grammar • 1</b></p> <p>1. the noun</p> <p>2. types of nouns</p> <p>3. the pronoun</p> <p>4. personal pronouns</p> <p>5. Do you know your personal pronouns?</p> <p>6. reflexive, demonstrative, and interrogative pronouns</p> <p>7. singular and plural nouns and pronouns</p> <p>8. the adjective</p> <p>9. the noun-adjective-pronoun question</p> <p>10. the verb</p> <p>11. Is it an action, linking, or helping verb?</p> <p>12. the adverb</p> <p>13. the preposition</p> <p>14. compound prepositions and the preposition-adverb question</p> <p>15. the coordinating conjunction</p> <p>16. the correlative conjunction</p> <p>17. the subordinating conjunction</p> <p>18. combining ideas with the subordinating conjunction</p> <p>19. the interjection</p> <p>20. parts-of-speech review (part one)</p> <p>21. parts-of-speech review (part two)</p> <p>22. parts-of-speech parade</p> <p>23. filling in the parts of speech</p> <p>24. What’s missing? (parts-of-speech review)</p> <p>25. fun with literary titles (parts-of-speech review)</p> <p>26. parts-of-speech matching</p> <p><b>Section Two Usage • 29</b></p> <p>27. complete and simple subjects</p> <p>28. complete and simple predicates</p> <p>29. compound subject and compound predicate</p> <p>30. the direct object</p> <p>31. the indirect object</p> <p>32. the object of the preposition</p> <p>33. objects and 8–7–5</p> <p>34. subject complements— predicate nominatives and predicate adjectives</p> <p>35. Predicate nominative, predicate adjective, or neither?</p> <p>36. introducing phrases</p> <p>37. the verb phrase</p> <p>38. the prepositional phrase</p> <p>39. the adjective phrase</p> <p>40. the adverb phrase</p> <p>41. adjective and adverb phrases review</p> <p>42. prepositional phrases review</p> <p>43. the appositive</p> <p>44. Appositive, verb, or prepositional phrase?</p> <p>45. the participle and participial phrase</p> <p>46. Participial phrase or not?</p> <p>47. the gerund and gerund phrase</p> <p>48. Gerund or not?</p> <p>49. the infinitive and infinitive phrase</p> <p>50. the many uses of the infinitive phrase</p> <p>51. verbal phrase review</p> <p>52. matching the phrases in context</p> <p>53. showing what you know about phrases</p> <p>54. happy in ten different ways</p> <p>55. writing with variety</p> <p>56. phrases finale</p> <p>57. introducing clauses</p> <p>58. the adverb clause</p> <p>59. nailing down the adverb clause</p> <p>60. the adjective clause</p> <p>61. recognizing adjective clauses</p> <p>62. the noun clause</p> <p>63. the many uses of the noun clause</p> <p>64. adjective, adverb, and noun clauses</p> <p>65. identifying phrases and clauses</p> <p>66. Do you know your phrases and clauses?</p> <p>67. putting clauses into action</p> <p>68. what good writers do</p> <p>69. starting the sentence</p> <p>70. it’s all about form</p> <p>71. sentences, fragments, and run-on sentences</p> <p>72. What’s what? sentences, fragments, and run-on sentences</p> <p>73. making sense (and sentences)</p> <p>74. types of sentences by purpose</p> <p>75. ‘‘purposeful’’ sentences</p> <p>76. sentences by design (or construction)</p> <p>77. simple and compound sentences</p> <p>78. complex sentences</p> <p>79. compound-complex sentences</p> <p>80. Know the sentence’s structure?</p> <p>81. subject and verb agreement</p> <p>82. agreement involving prepositional phrases</p> <p>83. knowing your prepositional phrases and agreement</p> <p>84. pronouns and their antecedents</p> <p>85. agreement between indefinite pronouns and their antecedents</p> <p>86. showing what you know about pronouns and their antecedents</p> <p>87. indefinite pronouns</p> <p>88. indefinite pronouns and agreement</p> <p>89. writing with indefinite pronouns</p> <p>90. compound subjects (part one)</p> <p>91. compound subjects (part two)</p> <p>92. working with compound subjects</p> <p>93. subject-verb agreement situations</p> <p>94. more subject-verb agreement situations</p> <p>95. making the wrong right</p> <p>96. knowing your subject-verb agreement</p> <p>97. subject-verb agreement parade</p> <p>98. practicing agreement</p> <p>99. How well do you know agreement?</p> <p>100. regular verb tenses</p> <p>101. selecting the correct verb tense</p> <p>102. irregular verbs (part one)</p> <p>103. working with irregular verbs from part one</p> <p>104. irregular verbs (part two)</p> <p>105. working with irregular verbs from part two</p> <p>106. irregular verbs in context</p> <p>107. Correct or incorrect?</p> <p>108. helping out with irregular verbs</p> <p>109. the verb ‘‘be’’</p> <p>110. busy with the verb ‘‘be’’</p> <p>111. the nominative case</p> <p>112. the objective case</p> <p>113. the possessive case</p> <p>114. the possessive case and pronouns</p> <p>115. indefinite pronouns and the possessive case</p> <p>116. using the possessive case</p> <p>117. confusing usage words (part one)</p> <p>118. confusing usage words (part two)</p> <p>119. confusing usage words (part three)</p> <p>120. confusing usage words (part four)</p> <p>121. confusing usage words (part five)</p> <p>122. confusing usage words (part six)</p> <p>123. confusing usage words (part seven)</p> <p>124. confusing usage words (part eight)</p> <p>125. matching up the confusing words</p> <p>126. Which is the correct word?</p> <p>127. select the correct word</p> <p>128. double negatives</p> <p>129. misplaced and dangling modifiers</p> <p>130. revising sentences that have misplaced and dangling modifiers</p> <p>131. transitive and intransitive verbs</p> <p>132. Do you know your transitive and intransitive verbs?</p> <p>133. active and passive voices</p> <p>134. sound-alike words (part one)</p> <p>135. sound-alike words (part two)</p> <p>136. sound-alike words (part three)</p> <p>137. sound-alike words (part four)</p> <p>138. making your mark with sound-alike words</p> <p>139. regular comparison of adjectives and adverbs</p> <p>140. irregular comparison of adjectives and adverbs</p> <p><b>Section Three Mechanics • 145</b></p> <p>141. periods, question marks, and exclamation marks</p> <p>142. working with periods, question marks, and exclamation marks</p> <p>143. commas (part one)</p> <p>144. commas (part two)</p> <p>145. commas (part three)</p> <p>146. commas (part four)</p> <p>147. commas (part five)</p> <p>148. commas in action</p> <p>149. some more commas in action</p> <p>150. comma matching contest</p> <p>151. the apostrophe</p> <p>152. more apostrophe situations</p> <p>153. working with apostrophes</p> <p>154. the colon</p> <p>155. the semicolon</p> <p>156. colons and semicolons in context</p> <p>157. quotation marks (part one)</p> <p>158. quotation marks (part two)</p> <p>159. quotation marks (part three)</p> <p>160. italics, hyphens, and brackets</p> <p>161. parentheses, ellipsis marks, and dashes</p> <p>162. all sorts of punctuation problems</p> <p>163. All the punctuation is missing!</p> <p>164. first capitalization list</p> <p>165. second capitalization list</p> <p>166. using capital letters</p> <p>167. capitalize these (part one)</p> <p>168. capitalize these (part two)</p> <p>169. challenging spelling words</p> <p>170. spell it right—and win the battle</p> <p><b>Section Four Show What You Know • 177</b></p> <p>171. Where did all the letters go?</p> <p>172. grammar and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea</p> <p>173. grammar, mechanics, and Alice in Wonderland</p> <p>174. phrases, clauses, and sentences found in ‘‘One Thousand Dollars’’</p> <p>175. find the mistake</p> <p>176. five questions in five minutes (parts of speech, prepositional phrases, and clauses)</p> <p>177. five questions in five minutes (sentences and usage)</p> <p>178. five questions in five minutes (mechanics)</p> <p>179. five questions in five minutes (verbals and subject complements)</p> <p>180. five questions in five minutes (confusing and sound-alike words)</p> <p>Answer Key 188</p>

<b>JACK UMSTATTER</b>, M.A., taught English for more than 30 years at both the middle school and high school levels. Selected Teacher of the Year several times, he is the best-selling author of numerous books, including <i>201 Ready-to-Use Word Games for the English Classroom</i>, <i>Brain Games!</i>, <i>Grammar Grabbers!</i>, and <i>Got Grammar?</i>, all published by Jossey-Bass. Umstatter is a professional development workshop leader, training teachers and students across the nation on reading, writing, and poetry strategies.

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