Voyages in English 2018 Gr. 4 Practice Bk

Contents   •   iii Contents GRAMMAR SECTION 1—Sentences Daily Maintenance 1 1.1 Sentences 5 1.2 Declarative and Interrogative Sentences 6 1.3 Imperative and Exclamatory Sentences 7 1.4 Complete Subjects and Predicates 8 1.5 Simple Subjects and Predicates 9 1.6 Compound Subjects 10 1.7 Compound Predicates 11 1.8 Direct Objects 12 1.9 Subject Complements 13 1.10 Compound Sentences 14 1.11 Run-on Sentences 16 SECTION 2—Nouns Daily Maintenance 17 2.1 Nouns 21 2.2 Common and Proper Nouns 22 2.3 Singular and Plural Nouns 23 2.4 Irregular Plural Nouns 24 2.5 Singular Possessive Nouns 26 2.6 Plural Possessive Nouns 27 2.7 Collective Nouns 28 2.8 Nouns as Subjects 29 2.9 Nouns as Direct Objects 30 2.10 Nouns as Subject Complements 31 2.11 Words Used as Nouns and as Verbs 32 SECTION 3—Pronouns Daily Maintenance 33 3.1 Personal Pronouns: Part I 37 3.2 Personal Pronouns: Part II 38 3.3 Singular and Plural Pronouns 39 3.4 Subject Pronouns 40 3.5 Pronouns in Compound Subjects 42 3.6 Object Pronouns 43 3.7 Possessive Pronouns 45 3.8 Possessive Adjectives 46 3.9 Pronouns and Antecedents 47 3.10 I, Me, We, and Us 49 3.11 Pronouns and Contractions 50 SECTION 4—Adjectives Daily Maintenance 51 4.1 Descriptive Adjectives 55 4.2 Proper Adjectives 56 4.3 Articles 57 4.4 Demonstrative Adjectives 58 4.5 Adjectives That Tell How Many 59 4.6 Adjectives as Subject Complements 60 4.7 Adjectives That Compare 62 4.8 Irregular Adjectives That Compare 63 4.9 More, Most 64 4.10 Fewer, Fewest and Less, Least 65 4.11 Position of Adjectives 66 SECTION 5—Verbs Daily Maintenance 67 5.1 Action Verbs 73 5.2 Being Verbs 74 5.3 Linking Verbs 75 5.4 Helping Verbs 77 5.5 Verb Phrases 79 5.6 Principal Parts of Verbs 81 5.7 Irregular Verbs 82 5.8 More Irregular Verbs 83 5.9 Simple Present Tense 84 5.10 Simple Past Tense 85 5.11 Future Tenses 86 5.12 Progressive Tenses 87 5.13 Present Perfect Tense 88 5.14 Past Perfect Tense 89 5.15 Future Perfect Tense 90 5.16 Subject-Verb Agreement 91 5.17 There Is and There Are 92 SECTION 6—Adverbs and Conjunctions Daily Maintenance 93 6.1 Adverbs of Time and Place 95 6.2 Adverbs of Manner 96 6.3 Adverbs That Compare 97 6.4 More Adverbs That Compare 98 6.5 Good and Well; Negative Words 99 6.6 Coordinating Conjunctions 100 SECTION 7—Punctuation and Capitalization Daily Maintenance 101 7.1 End Punctuation 105 7.2 Capitalization 106 7.3 Titles of Works 107 7.4 Abbreviations 108 7.5 Personal Titles 109 7.6 Commas: Part I 110 7.7 Commas: Part II 111 7.8 Apostrophes 113 7.9 Addresses 114 7.10 Direct Quotations 115