Language Handbook - Additional Practice in Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics (Grade 7) SB and Answer Key

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by  HOLT McDOUGAL LITERATURE

HOLT McDOUGAL LITERATURE
Language Handbook
Additional Practice in Grammar,
Usage, and Mechanics
GRADE 7
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Table of Contents
To the Teacher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Language Handbook 1
The Parts of Speech
Worksheet 1 Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Worksheet 2 Pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Worksheet 3 Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Worksheet 4 Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Worksheet 5 Action Verbs and Linking Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Worksheet 6 Adverbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Worksheet 7 Identifying Adjectives and Adverbs . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Worksheet 8 Prepositions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Worksheet 9 Conjunctions and Interjections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Worksheet 10 Which Part of Speech? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Worksheet 11 Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Language Handbook 2
Agreement
Worksheet 1 Agreement of Subject and Verb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Worksheet 2 Agreement of Subject and Verb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Worksheet 3 Agreement of Subject and Verb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Worksheet 4 Agreement of Subject and Verb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Worksheet 5 Agreement of Subject and Verb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Worksheet 6 Agreement of Subject and Verb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Worksheet 7 Agreement of Subject and Verb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Worksheet 8 Agreement of Subject and Verb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Worksheet 9 Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Worksheet 10 Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
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Miffli Worksheet 2 Irregular Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
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Worksheet 5 Using Lie and Lay Correctly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Worksheet 6 Using Rise and Raise Correctly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
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Worksheet 7 Verb Tense. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Worksheet 8 Consistency of Verb Tense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Worksheet 9 Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Language Handbook 4
Using Pronouns
Worksheet 1 The Nominative Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Worksheet 2 The Nominative Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Worksheet 3 The Objective Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Worksheet 4 The Objective Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Worksheet 5 Special Pronoun Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Worksheet 6 Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Language Handbook 5
Using Modifiers
Worksheet 1 Comparison of Modifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Worksheet 2 Comparison of Modifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Worksheet 3 Choosing Adverbs or Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Worksheet 4 Choosing Correct Modifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Worksheet 5 Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Worksheet 6 Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Worksheet 7 Correcting Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers . . . 54
Worksheet 8 Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Language Handbook 6
Phrases
Worksheet 1 Identifying Prepositional Phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
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Worksheet 3 Identifying Adjective and Adverb Phrases . . . . . . 59 C
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Worksheet 4 Identifying Prepositional Phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 shi
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Worksheet 5 Identifying Participles and Participial Phrases . . . 62 Pu
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Worksheet 6 Identifying Gerunds and Gerund Phrases . . . . . . 63 o
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Worksheet 7 Identifying Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases . . . . 64 n H
Worksheet 8 Identifying Appositives and Appositive Miffli
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Worksheet 9 Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Ho
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Language Handbook 7
Clauses
Worksheet 1 Identifying Independent Clauses and
Subordinate Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Worksheet 2 Identifying and Using Adjective Clauses . . . . . . . 71
Worksheet 3 Identifying Adverb Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Worksheet 4 Identifying Noun Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Worksheet 5 Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Language Handbook 8
Sentences
Worksheet 1 Sentence or Sentence Fragment? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Worksheet 2 Identifying Sentence Fragments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Worksheet 3 Identifying Complete Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Worksheet 4 Correcting Sentence Fragments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Worksheet 5 Finding Subjects and Predicates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Worksheet 6 Finding Complete Subjects,Simple Subjects,
and Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Worksheet 7 Finding Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Worksheet 8 Sentences with Compound Subjects
and Compound Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Worksheet 9 Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Language Handbook 9
Complements
Worksheet 1 Finding Subjects,Verbs,and Complements . . . . . 88
Worksheet 2 Finding Direct Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
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Language Handbook 10
Kinds of Sentences
Worksheet 1 Finding Subjects and Verbs in Simple Sentences . 95
Worksheet 2 Identifying Subjects and Verbs in Compound
Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Worksheet 3 Identifying Clauses in Complex Sentences . . . . . 99
Worksheet 4 Classifying Sentences by Structure and Purpose . 100
Worksheet 5 Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Language Handbook 11
Writing Effective Sentences
Worksheet 1 Combining Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Worksheet 2 Combining Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Worksheet 3 Combining Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Worksheet 4 Combining Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Worksheet 5 Combining Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Worksheet 6 Combining Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Worksheet 7 Identifying Run-on Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Worksheet 8 Correcting Run-on Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Worksheet 9 Revising Stringy Sentences and Wordy
Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Worksheet 10 Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Language Handbook 12
Capital Letters
Worksheet 1 Using Capitals Correctly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Worksheet 2 Using Capitals Correctly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
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Worksheet 4 Capitalizing Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Co
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Worksheet 1 Using End Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 hto
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Worksheet 2 Using Commas in a Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Ho
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Worksheet 3 Using Commas in Compound Sentences . . . . . . 127
Worksheet 4 Using Commas with Interrupters . . . . . . . . . . . 128
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Worksheet 5 Using Commas with Interrupters and
Introductory Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Worksheet 6 Using Commas in Conventional Situations . . . . 130
Worksheet 7 Using Commas,Semicolons,and Colons . . . . . . 131
Worksheet 8 Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Language Handbook 14
Punctuation
Worksheet 1 Using Underlining (Italics) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Worksheet 2 Using Quotation Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Worksheet 3 Using Quotation Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Worksheet 4 Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Language Handbook 15
Punctuation
Worksheet 1 Using Apostrophes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Worksheet 2 Using Apostrophes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Worksheet 3 Using Apostrophes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Worksheet 4 Using Hyphens,Parentheses,and Dashes . . . . . . 143
Worksheet 5 Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Language Handbook 16
Spelling
Worksheet 1 Using Word Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Worksheet 2 Using Spelling Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Worksheet 3 Adding Prefixes and Suffixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Worksheet 4 Forming Plurals of Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
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Language
The Parts of Speech
Handbook
WORKSHEET 1 Nouns
Exercise A
On the lines provided,write five common nouns that name persons,
five that name places,five that name things,and five that name ideas. Read the example of
each type of noun before you write.
Persons Places Things Ideas
EXAMPLE 1. child city piñata truth
1. _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________
2. _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________
3. _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________
4. _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________
5. _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________
Exercise B
Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with appropriate nouns.
Do not use any noun more than once.
EXAMPLE 1. Sachi wore a beautiful kimono to the celebration .
1. The __________ tastes even better than the __________.
2. The group’s new __________ has lots of __________.
3. My __________ is painted red and green.
4. Radha likes __________ better than __________.
5. Geoffrey stood on a __________ to hang the __________.
6. __________ and __________ are much bigger than __________.
7. __________ and __________ are both in my math class.
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The Parts of Speech 1