Voyages in English 2018 Gr. 7 Practice Bk

Contents   •   iii Contents GRAMMAR SECTION 1—Nouns Daily Maintenance 1 1.1 Singular and Plural Nouns 3 1.2 More Singular and Plural Nouns 4 1.3 Nouns as Subjects and Subject Complements 6 1.4 Nouns as Objects and Object Complements 7 1.5 Appositives 9 1.6 Possessive Nouns 11 SECTION 2—Adjectives Daily Maintenance 13 2.1 Descriptive Adjectives, Position of Adjectives 15 2.2 Demonstrative, Interrogative, and Indefinite Adjectives 16 2.3 Comparative and Superlative Adjectives 18 2.4 Few and Little 20 2.5 Adjective Phrases and Clauses 21 SECTION 3—Pronouns Daily Maintenance 22 3.1 Person, Number, and Gender of Pronouns 25 3.2 Subject Pronouns 26 3.3 Object Pronouns 27 3.4 Pronouns After Than or As 28 3.5 Possessive Pronouns and Adjectives 29 3.6 Intensive and Reflexive Pronouns 30 3.7 Agreement of Pronouns and Antecedents 31 3.8 Interrogative and Demonstrative Pronouns 33 3.9 Relative Pronouns 34 3.10 Indefinite Pronouns 36 3.11 Agreement with Indefinite Pronouns 37 SECTION 4—Verbs Daily Maintenance 38 4.1 Principal Parts of Verbs 41 4.2 Transitive and Intransitive Verbs 42 4.3 Troublesome Verbs 44 4.4 Linking Verbs 45 4.5 Active and Passive Voices 46 4.6 Simple, Progressive, and Perfect Tenses 47 4.7 Indicative, Imperative, and Emphatic Moods 48 4.8 Subjunctive Mood 49 4.9 Modal Auxiliaries 51 4.10 Agreement of Subject and Verb—Part I 52 4.11 Agreement of Subject and Verb—Part II 53 SECTION 5—Verbals Daily Maintenance 54 5.1 Participles 57 5.2 Placement of Participles 58 5.3 Gerunds as Subjects and Subject Complements 59 5.4 Gerunds as Objects and Appositives 60 5.5 Possessives with Gerunds, Using -ing Verb Forms 61 5.6 Infinitives as Subjects and Subject Complements 62 5.7 Infinitives as Objects 63 5.8 Infinitives as Appositives 64 5.9 Infinitives as Adjectives 65 5.10 Infinitives as Adverbs 66 5.11 Hidden and Split Infinitives 67 SECTION 6—Adverbs Daily Maintenance 69 6.1 Types of Adverbs 71 6.2 Interrogative Adverbs and Adverbial Nouns 72 6.3 Comparative and Superlative Adverbs 73 6.4 Troublesome Words 74 6.5 Adverb Phrases and Clauses 76 SECTION 7—Prepositions Daily Maintenance 77 7.1 Single and Multiword Prepositions 79 7.2 Troublesome Prepositions 80 7.3 Words Used as Adverbs and Prepositions 82 7.4 Prepositional Phrases as Adjectives 83 7.5 Prepositional Phrases as Adverbs 84 7.6 Prepositional Phrases as Nouns 85 SECTION 8—Sentences Daily Maintenance 86 8.1 Kinds of Sentences 89 8.2 Adjective and Adverb Phrases 90 8.3 Adjective Clauses 91 8.4 Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Clauses 92 8.5 Adverb Clauses 94 8.6 Noun Clauses as Subjects 95 8.7 Noun Clauses as Subject Complements 96 8.8 Noun Clauses as Appositives 97 8.9 Noun Clauses as Direct Objects 98 8.10 Noun Clauses as Objects of Prepositions 99 8.11 Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences 100 SECTION 9—Conjunctions and Interjections Daily Maintenance 101 9.1 Coordinating Conjunctions 103 9.2 Correlative Conjunctions 104 9.3 Conjunctive Adverbs 105 9.4 Subordinate Conjunctions 106 9.5 Troublesome Conjunctions 107 9.6 Interjections 108