GRAMMAR in 15 minutes a day

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Introduction 1 Pretest SECTION 1: PARTS OF SPEECH Lesson 1: Nouns

• Understanding common, proper, concrete, abstract, collective, and compound
• Review exercises of all nouns

Lesson 2: Pronouns

• Understanding personal, demonstrative, reflexive, intensive, indefinite pronouns
• Charts of subject, object, possessive, and indefinite pronouns
• Review exercises of all pronouns

Lesson 3: Verbs

• Understanding action, linking, and helping verbs
• Chart of common helping verbs
• Review exercises of all verbs

Lesson 4: Verb Tenses

• Understanding regular and irregularverbs
• Understanding present, past, future, present perfect, past perfect, future perfect, present progressive, past progressive, and future progressive tenses
• Chart of common irregular verbs
• Review exercises of regular and irregular verb forms intenses

Lesson 5: Adjectives

• Understanding common, proper, possessive, and demonstrative adjectives
• Review exercises of all adjective forms

Lesson 6: Adverbs

• Understanding and identifying adverbs
• Distinguishing between adjectives and adverbs
• Review exercises of adverbs

Lesson 7: Comparative Adverbs and Adjectives

• Understanding and identifying positive, comparative, and superlative degrees of adverbs and adjectives
• Review exercises of comparative adverbs and adjectives

Lesson 8: Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases

• Understanding and identifying prepositional phrases and the object of the preposition (OOP)
• Chart of common prepositions
• Review exercises of prepositions, prepositional phrases, and OOPs

Lesson 9: Conjunctions

• Understanding and identifying coordinating, correlative, and subordinating conjunctions
• Charts of coordinating, correlative, and subordinating conjunctions
• Review exercises of all conjunctions

SECTION 2: PARTS OF A SENTENCE Lesson 10: Subjects and Predicates

• Understanding and identifying simple subjects and predicates, tricky subjects, and complete subjects and predicates
• Review exercises of all subjects and predicates

Lesson 11: Direct and Indirect Objects

• Understanding and identifying direct and indirect objects
• Review exercises of direct and indirect objects

SECTION 3: BUILDING A SENTENCE Lesson 12: Phrases

• Understanding and identifying adjective, adverb, appositive, gerund, and participial phrases
• Review exercises of all phrases

Lesson 13: Clauses

• Understanding and identifying independent, subordinate, and relative clauses
• Charts of common subordinating conjunctions and relative pronouns
• Review exercises for all clauses

Lesson 14: Combining Sentences

• Understanding and identifying simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences
• Chart of simple sentence structures
• Review exercises of sentence combining

Lesson 15: Fragments and Run-ons

• Understanding and identifying sentence fragments and run- on sentences
• Review exercises of fragments and run-ons

SECTION 4: AGREEMENT Lesson 16: Subject–Verb Agreement

• Understanding the importance of subject–verb agreement in written sentences and speech with singular, plural, compound, and indefinite subjects
• Chart of conjugated verb be according to number, form, and person
• Chart of personal and indefinite subject pronouns
• Review exercises of subject–verb agreement

Lesson 17: Pronoun–Antecedent Agreement

• Understanding the importance of pronoun–antecedent agreement in written sentences and speech with singular, plural, and indefinite pronouns
• Chart of common English pronouns
• Review exercises of pronoun–antecedent agreement contents

SECTION 5: PUNCTUATION Lesson 18: End Punctuation

• Understanding periods, exclamation marks, question marks, and their usage
• Review exercises of all end marks

Lesson 19: Commas Part I

• Understanding comma usage in sentences
• Review exercises of comma usage and placement in sentences

Lesson 20: Commas Part II

• Understanding of comma usage in letters and numbers
• Review exercises of comma usage and placement in letters and numbers

Lesson 21: Colons and Semicolons

• Understanding colon and semicolon usage in writing
• Conjunctive adverb chart
• Review exercises of colon and semicolon placement

Lesson 22: Quotation Marks

• Understanding quotation mark usage in written dialogue
• Review exercises of quotation mark placement in written dialogue

Lesson 23: Italicizing and Underlining

• Understanding usage of italics and underlining in writing
• Review exercises of italicizing and underlining

Lesson 24: Parentheses and Brackets

• Understanding placement of parentheses and brackets in writing
• Review exercises of parentheses and brackets

Lesson 25: Hyphens and Dashes

• Understanding placement of hyphens and dashes
• Review exercises of hyphens and dashes

Lesson 26: Apostrophes

• Understanding placement of apostrophes for contractions, and singular and plural possessive nouns
• Chart of contractions of common pronouns and helping verbs
• Review exercises of apostrophes and apostrophe placement

Lesson 27: Capitalization

• Understanding of capitalization of proper nouns, proper adjectives, and titles
• Review exercises of capitalization

SECTION 6: CONFUSING WORDS Lesson 28: Troublesome Verbs

• Understanding the verbs, lay/lie, sit/set, and did/done
• Understanding the verbs except/accept, can/may, and hang/hung
• Review exercises of trouble some verbs

Lesson 29: Tricky Words

• Charts of common homonyms and homographs
• Review exercises of common homonyms and homographs

Lesson 30: Misplaced Modifiers

• Explanation and identification of dangling, squinting, and split-infinitive modifiers
• Review exercises of misplaced modifiers

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