Writer's Choice. Grammar Practice Workbook Grade 12 - Teacher's Annotated Edition

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Grammar and Composition
Grammar Practice
Workbook
Teacher’s Annotated Edition
Grade 12
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Contents
Unit 10 Parts of Speech
10.1 Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
10.2 Pronouns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
10.3 Action Verbs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
10.3 Linking Verbs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
10.4 Adjectives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
10.5 Adverbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
10.6 Prepositions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
10.7–8 Conjunctions and Interjections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Unit 11 Parts of the Sentence
11.1–4 Subjects and Predicates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
11.5 Direct Objects and Indirect Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
11.5 Object Complements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
11.5 Subject Complements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Unit 12 Phrases
12.1 Prepositional Phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
12.2 Appositives and Appositive Phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
12.3 Participles and Gerunds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
12.3 Infinitives:Phrases and Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
12.4 Absolute Phrases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Unit 13 Clauses and Sentence Structure
13.1–4 Clauses and Sentence Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
13.5 Adjective Clauses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
13.6 Adverb Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
13.7 Noun Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
13.8 Four Kinds of Sentences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
13.9 Sentence Fragments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
13.10 Run-on Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Unit 15 Verb Tenses,Voice, and Mood
15.1–3 Verbs:Principal Parts and Tense. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
15.4–5 Verb Tenses and Forms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
15.6–7 Compatibility of Tenses and Voice ofVerbs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Unit 16 Subject-Verb Agreement
16.2–3 Subject-Verb Agreement I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
16.4–6 Subject-Verb Agreement II. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
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Unit 17 Using Pronouns Correctly
17.1 Case of Personal Pronouns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
17.2–3 Pronouns with Appositives and Thanand As . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
17.4 Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
17.5 Whoand Whomin Questions and Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
17.6–7 Pronoun Agreement and Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Unit 18 Using Modifiers Correctly
18.1–2 Making Comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
18.3–4 Double and Incomplete Comparisons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
18.7 Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Unit 20 Capitalization
20.1 Capitalization:Sentences and I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
20.2–3 Capitalization:Proper Nouns and Adjectives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Unit 21 Punctuation,Abbreviations, and Numbers
21.1–3 Period,Exclamation Point,Question Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
21.4 The Colon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
21.5 The Semicolon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
21.6 Commas and Compound Sentences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
21.6 Commas and Coordinate Adjectives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
21.6 Commas and Nonessential Elements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
21.6 Commas:Titles,Addresses,Direct Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
21.6 Proper Use of Commas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
21.7–8 The Dash and Parentheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
21.11 Quotation Marks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
21.12 Italics (Underlining) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
21.13 The Apostrophe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
21.14–15 The Hyphen and Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
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Grammar Practice
Name ...................................................................................... Class .................................................. Date................................
10.1 Nouns
Key Information
A noun is a word that names a person, a place, An abstract noun names an idea, a quality, or
a thing, or an idea. a characteristic.
A common noun is a general name. liberty freshness dedication
man religion document Singular nouns name one person, place, thing,
or idea. Plural nouns name more than one.
A proper noun names someone or something
particular. A collective noun names a group.
Andrew Jackson Buddhism league tribe class
the Declaration of Independence
The possessive form of a noun indicates pos-
A concrete nounnames an object that occupies session, ownership, or the relationship between
space or that can be recognized by the senses. two nouns.
wall juice sun a mouse’s tail the mice’s tails
(cid:2) A. Identifying Nouns
Underline all the nouns in the sentences below.
1. When Alfred Nobelwas born in Stockholmin 1833,his fatherhad a reputationas an inventor.
2. Like his father,Alfredtaught himself much of what he learned,and by the timehe was a
young man,his knowledgewas extraordinary.
3. In his family’sfactory,which produced munitionsfor the Russian army,Alfredbecame
fascinated by explosives.
4. When the endof the Crimean Warbrought a reversalto the clan’sfortunesand one of his
brotherswas killed in an accidentinvolving explosives,Nobelwent to the United States.
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1. (proper nouns) __A_lf_re_d_ _N_o_b_e_l,_S_t_o_ck_h_o_l_m_,_C_r_im__ea_n_ _W_a_r_,_U_n_it_e_d_ S_t_a_te_s________________________
2. (collective nouns) __cl_a_n_,_se_r_ie_s_,_c_o_m_m_i_t_te_e_,_a_rm__y________________________________________
3. (concrete nouns)__f_a_th_e_r,_i_n_v_en_t_o_r,_b_r_o_th_e_r_s_,e_d_u_c_a_t_io_n_s___________________________________
4. (abstract nouns) __re_p_u_t_at_i_on_,_k_n_o_w__le_d_g_e_,_tr_a_g_e_di_e_s,_p_e_a_c_e_________________________________
5. (possessive nouns)__f_a_m_i_ly_’s_,_c_la_n_’s_,_p_e_o_p_le_’s_,_N_o_b_e_l_’s_____________________________________
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Grammar Practice
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10.2 Pronouns
Key Information
Pronouns take the place of nouns, words act- The leg itself was broken.
ing as nouns, or other pronouns. Personal pro-
Indefinite pronouns refer to persons, places,
nouns refer to specific people or things.
or things in a more general way than nouns do.
She sold them to us.
Each of the major harbors along the
Personal pronouns that indicate possession or Atlantic seaboard has a unique character.
ownership are possessive pronouns. They take
Demonstrative pronouns (this, that, these,
the place of the possessive forms of nouns.
and those) point out specific persons, places,
My worry is yours, too. things, or ideas.
Reflexive pronouns refer to nouns or other Interrogative pronouns (who, whom, whose,
pronouns and indicate that the same persons or which, and what) form questions.
things are involved.
Relative pronouns begin subject-verb groups
The gave themselves a treat. called subordinate clauses. Relative pronouns
include who, whom, whose, which, that, what,
Intensive pronouns add emphasis to other
whoever, whomever, whichever, and whatever.
nouns or pronouns.
(cid:2) Identifying Pronouns
Underline all the pronouns in the sentences below.Above each pronoun,identify it as
Per.(personal),Poss.(possessive),Ref.(reflexive),Inten.(intensive),Dem.(demonstrative),
Inter.(interrogative),Rel.(relative),or Ind.(indefinite).
Rel. Per.
1. The evil thatmen do lives after them.—Shakespeare
Ref.
2. Adversity introduces a person to himself.—Anonymous
Per. Poss.
3. Youcan tell the ideals of a nation by itsadvertisements.—Douglas
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Ind. Per. Ind. n
4. Nonepreaches better than the ant,and shesays nothing.—Franklin es, I
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5. The only thing wehave to fear is fear itself.—Franklin Roosevelt pa
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11. Have a place for everything,and have everythingin itsplace.—Anonymous op
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12. Allthatis not prose passes for poetry.—Crabbe
Ind. Rel. Poss.
13. Not allare free whoscorn theirchains.—Lessing
Inter. Per.
14. Art! Whocomprehends her?—Beethoven
Per. Ref.
15. The only question is:“Is ittrue in and for itself?”—Hegel
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10.3 Action Verbs
Key Information
A verb is a word that expresses action or a The cat trailed us home. (Us is the direct
state of being. An action verb tells what some- object.)
one or something does.
An intransitive verb is an action verb that is
The dog caught the ball in its teeth. not followed by a word that answers the ques-
How she yearned to own such an animal. tions what? or whom?
A transitive verb is an action verb that is The cat trailed behind us. (Behind us tells
followed by a word or words (known as the where.)
direct object) that answer the questions what?
or whom?
(cid:2) Identifying Transitive and Intransitive Action Verbs
Underline the action verbs in the sentences below.Write A-T above each action verb that is
transitive and A-I above each one that is intransitive.(Some sentences contain more than
one action verb.)
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1. Many people regardpolo as a sport only for the rich.
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2. The game probably originatedin Persia,now Iran,sometime between the sixth and
second centuries B.C.
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3. It then spreadto Turkey,India,Tibet,China,and Japan.
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4. In the nineteenth century British army officers in India frequently playedthe game.
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5. James Gordon Bennett,a U.S.newspaper publisher,importedpolo to the United States
from England.
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6. Enthusiasts in the United States first playedthe sport indoors.
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10.3 Linking Verbs
Key Information
A linking verb links, or joins, the subject of These verbs can also be used as action verbs.
a sentence (often a noun or pronoun) with a To determine whether a verb is used as an
word or expression that identifies or describes action or a linking verb, substitute seem for
the subject. the verb. If seem can be substituted, the verb
is probably a linking verb.
The most common linking verb is be in all its
forms, including am, is, are, was, were, will be, LINKING: The crowd stayed calm.
has been, and was being. (Seemed makes sense.)
ACTION: The crowd stayed on the street.
Other verbs that can function as linking verbs
(Seemed cannot be substituted.)
are look, grow, feel, remain, appear, seem,
sound, become, taste, stay, and smell.
(cid:2) Identifying Linking Verbs
Each sentence below contains two underlined verbs.Decide which of the two is a linking verb,
and write it in the space provided.
__a_p_p_e_a_r_e_d_________ 1. In 1817 a young man who appearedadventurous arrivedon a volcanic
island in the South Atlantic.
__f_e_lt______________ 2. William Glass felthappy there,and he marrieda local girl,Maria.
__s_e_e_m_e_d___________ 3. In time,William and Maria hadsixteen children,all of whom seemedcon-
tent with their life on the island.
__b_e_c_a_m_e___________ 4. William,who becamerespected on the island,stayedon Tristan da Cunha
until his death in 1853.
__r_e_m_a_i_n_e_d_________ 5. Meanwhile,many other seafaring men choseCorporal Glass’s island for a
home,since it remaineda calm and peaceful place to live.
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10.4 Adjectives
Key Information
An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or Positive Comparative Superlative
pronoun by limiting its meaning.
good better best
old horse leisurely stroll rigid more rigid most rigid
second class tragic play high higher highest
federal law some money
Articles are the adjectives a, an, and the. A and
this aim those coats
an are called indefinite articles. The is called a
few quarrels
definite article.
Possessive pronouns and nouns are considered
Proper adjectives are formed from proper
adjectives because they modify nouns.
nouns and begin with capital letters.
our teacher their music
African continent Canadian border
Kim’s bike
Finnish winters Japanese cars
Most adjectives have different forms to indicate
their degree of comparison.
(cid:2) A. Identifying Adjectives
Underline each word that is used as an adjective in the sentences below.(Include articles and
proper adjectives.)
1. TheSahel can support asmallpastoralpopulation.
2. Nomadicherders,who subsisted on marginalresources,followed rains north into drier
areas during therainyseason and retreated to greenersouthernpastures during dryspells.
3. When theAfricannations gained theirindependence in the1950sand 1960s,they began
to receive foreignaid,which included newstrains of manycrops like cotton and peanuts
that could tolerate ashortseason.
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he appropriate adjective from the words given below the exercise.
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government was unable to maintain peace.Confucius thought that China should try to
recapture the (5) __p_e_a_ce_f_u_l_________ and prosperous order of the past.A famous saying
of Confucius is “Learning without thought is fruitless labor;thought without learning is
(6)__p_e_r_il_o_u_s_________.”
quarrelsome central peaceful highest unquiet unbiased famous perilous
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