From Bunches of Grammar Fun 2, by R. Larson 2003, Austin, TX: PRO-ED. Copyright 2003 by PRO-ED, Inc.
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Introduction....................................................................................................... VIII
Unit 1: Nouns
Things! Things! Things! ..............................................................................1
Nouns That Go Crash!................................................................................2
Flying Nouns ..............................................................................................3
Common Fun .............................................................................................4
Favorite Proper Nouns ................................................................................5
Proper Noun Fill-In ....................................................................................6
Proper Nouns Name Places .........................................................................7
Hometown Proper Nouns ...........................................................................8
Proper Noun Things ...................................................................................9
Where To?.................................................................................................10
Common or Proper Shoes? .......................................................................11
Quiz: What Kind of Noun Is It? ...............................................................12
Noun Clues ..............................................................................................13
The Noun Next Door ...............................................................................14
Which Article Adjective? ...........................................................................15
Use Your Clues!.........................................................................................16
Nouns That Work .....................................................................................17
More Working Nouns ..............................................................................18
ist Working Nouns ...................................................................................19
Working Noun Endings ............................................................................20
Two Small Nouns = One Big Noun ..........................................................21
Compound Nouns on the Stage ................................................................22
Quiz: Clues and Compounds at Work ......................................................23
More Than One Noun..............................................................................24
Take a Plural Bow, s! .................................................................................25
ch Needs More Than s ..............................................................................26
sh Plurals Looking for es ...........................................................................27
Add That es Ending! .................................................................................28
SShChXZ Nouns Need es ! .......................................................................29
The ves Treatment ....................................................................................30
Happy ff and ffe Nouns .............................................................................31
Surgical Nouns .........................................................................................32
No y, No Way! ..........................................................................................33
Mummies Is the Word ..............................................................................34
Simply Plural ............................................................................................35
Which y Noun Are You? ...........................................................................36
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Quiz: Plural Professional ...........................................................................37
What Do You Own? .................................................................................38
Showing Ownership .................................................................................39
Nouns for Free! .........................................................................................40
Any Noun Can Be an Owner ....................................................................41
Nouns Are Possessive ................................................................................42
Possessive Nouns Love ’s ...........................................................................43
What’s the Difference? ..............................................................................44
Plural Nouns Versus Possessive Nouns ......................................................45
Changing Nouns ......................................................................................46
Quiz: Plural or Possessive? .........................................................................47
Unit 2: Pronouns
Important “I” ...........................................................................................48
“He” Does the Job ....................................................................................49
A “She” Person ..........................................................................................50
“We”: Wee but Mighty .............................................................................51
Use “They”— Save a Tree!.........................................................................52
Mighty “Me” ............................................................................................53
You’ve Got to Love “Him” ........................................................................54
Give “Her” a Prize.....................................................................................55
“Us” = Others + “Me” ...............................................................................56
“Them” Is Not You ...................................................................................57
Subjective and Objective Pronouns ...........................................................58
Quiz: The Object of the Subject ...............................................................59
“You” Who? ..............................................................................................60
Let’s Hear About “It”! ...............................................................................61
Self Pronouns ............................................................................................62
All About “Yourself ” .................................................................................63
More Than One Self .................................................................................64
Self Pronouns ROCK! ...............................................................................65
Quiz: Send in the Pronouns! .....................................................................66
Who Owns That Thing? ...........................................................................67
What Is an “It”? ........................................................................................68
“Its” Does NOT Equal “It’s” .....................................................................69
More Than One Owner Needs Replacing .................................................70
No Apostrophe Needed ............................................................................71
Quiz: Pronouns Can Sure Be Possessive! ...................................................72
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Unit 3: Adjectives
The Double Life of a Possessive Pronoun ..................................................73
Tons of Adjectives .....................................................................................74
Adjectives That Point to Nouns ................................................................75
“Them” Is NOT an Adjective! ..................................................................76
The Shape of Things .................................................................................77
Colorful Adjectives ...................................................................................78
Adjectives Can Be Tiny! ............................................................................79
Adjectives Can Be Huge! ...........................................................................80
How Much? How Many? ..........................................................................81
Favorite Number Adjectives ......................................................................82
A Few or Many? ........................................................................................83
Nouns as Adjectives ..................................................................................84
When Is a Noun an Adjective? ..................................................................85
Noun Adjectives........................................................................................86
Proper Adjectives From Around the World ...............................................87
Proper Adjectives Are Capitalized..............................................................88
Survey Says “Yes” to Proper Adjectives! .....................................................89
Quiz: Adjectives on the Road ....................................................................90
Er…What? ...............................................................................................91
Adjectives Make Your Writing Mightier....................................................92
Want More? Try a Comparing Adjective! ..................................................93
NEVER “More”! ......................................................................................94
Quiz: Comparing Adjectives .....................................................................95
Nouns in Disguise ....................................................................................96
Good-Bye e, Hello y..................................................................................97
Abracadabra Adjectives .............................................................................98
Make a Noun Happy! ...............................................................................99
Action Words to Adjectives .....................................................................100
Lose an e, Gain ing .................................................................................101
Double Adjective Trouble .......................................................................102
Adjectives for Sale! ..................................................................................103
Barbecuing Adjectives .............................................................................104
Quiz: Adjective Reward ..........................................................................105
Unit 4: Verbs
Verbs Tell What Nouns Do .....................................................................106
What Do People Do? ..............................................................................107
What Do Animals Do? ...........................................................................108
Add an Action Verb ................................................................................109
Three-Way Words ...................................................................................110
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Is It a Verb, a Noun, or an Adjective? ......................................................111
Quiz: Identifying Verbs ...........................................................................112
High-Energy Verbs..................................................................................113
Verbs Have Energy! .................................................................................114
High or Low Energy? ..............................................................................115
Live-Wire Verbs ......................................................................................116
Exciting Action Verbs..............................................................................117
Your Favorite Verb ..................................................................................118
Behind-the-Scenes Verbs .........................................................................119
Invisible Verbs.........................................................................................120
Quiz: Visible and Invisible Verbs.............................................................121
I Am What I Am ....................................................................................122
Who Am I? .............................................................................................123
No-Energy “Is” .......................................................................................124
Is That Sentence Super? ..........................................................................125
What’s Happening? .................................................................................126
Help From the Past .................................................................................127
Was That a Sentence? ..............................................................................128
What Was Happening? ...........................................................................129
Helping Verbs Make Sense ......................................................................130
Serious Helping-Verb Talk ......................................................................131
“Are” to the Rescue! ................................................................................132
“Are” Is Plural .........................................................................................133
Are These Sentences Making Sense? ........................................................134
Were You Thinking of More Than One? .................................................135
Triple Duty .............................................................................................136
Sentences Were for Sale ...........................................................................137
Simple Math ...........................................................................................138
Plural Equals Plural.................................................................................139
Agreeable Subjects and Verbs ..................................................................140
Building Cool Sentences .........................................................................141
More Agreeable Subjects and Verbs .........................................................142
Quiz: Helping Verbs ...............................................................................143
“Has” Helps Out ....................................................................................144
Who Has a Sentence?..............................................................................145
“Have” Helps a Lot of Subjects ...............................................................146
You Have to Write That Sentence! ..........................................................147
“Has” or “Have”? ....................................................................................148
High-Flying Sentences ............................................................................149
Building Happy Sentences ......................................................................150
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“Had” + Any Subject = Agreement..........................................................151
“Had” Makes Handy Sentences ..............................................................152
Quiz: “Has,” “Have,” and “Had” ............................................................153
Build Your Own Verb Phrases .................................................................154
Let’s Play “Create a Verb Phrase” .............................................................155
Write a Verb Phrase.................................................................................156
Singles and Doubles ................................................................................157
Agreeable Verbs .......................................................................................158
Between the Subject and the Verb ...........................................................159
Writing Sentences With Verb Phrases .....................................................160
Phrasing More Exciting Sentences...........................................................161
Have a Good Sentence?...........................................................................162
Sentence Magic .......................................................................................163
Quiz: Verb Phrases ..................................................................................164
Unit 5: Adverbs
Tell Me About That Verb Phrase .............................................................165
Where, Oh Where, Is the Adverb? ..........................................................166
How? When? Where? ..............................................................................167
How Was That Done? .............................................................................168
Did You Say “How”? ...............................................................................169
When Will You Be Cleaning? ..................................................................170
Where Did That Verb Go? ......................................................................171
Adverb Questions ...................................................................................172
Building Adverbs ....................................................................................173
Homemade Adverbs................................................................................174
Circling Adverbs .....................................................................................175
Spicy Sentences .......................................................................................176
Adverb Sentence Alert .............................................................................177
Love Those Adverbs! ...............................................................................178
Adverb Phrases ........................................................................................179
Say It in Four Words or Less ...................................................................180
Quiz: Adverbs and Adverb Phrases ..........................................................181
Unit 6: Prepositions
Start Your Phrases! ..................................................................................182
Prepositions at the Movies.......................................................................183
Read All About Prepositions ...................................................................184
Making Prepositional Phrases..................................................................185
Toss Up a Prepositional Phrase ................................................................186
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When Is a Prepositional Phrase an Adverb? .............................................187
Teaming Up to Write Sentences ..............................................................188
Curious Sentences ...................................................................................189
When Is a Prepositional Phrase an Adjective? ..........................................190
Sentences With Personality .....................................................................191
A Phrase Can Make a Sentence Sparkle ...................................................192
Is It an Adverb or an Adjective? ...............................................................193
Two Kinds of Prepositional Phrases .........................................................194
Make a Phrase, Make a Sentence .............................................................195
Chain-Link Sentences .............................................................................196
Quiz: What Does That Prepositional Phrase Do? ....................................197
Unit 7: Conjunctions
Double Phrases .......................................................................................198
The Glue That Holds Words Together ....................................................199
Compound Sentence Fun .......................................................................200
But That’s a Conjunction ........................................................................201
Yet Another Conjunction ........................................................................202
Make a Choice ........................................................................................203
“Nor” and “Not” Go Hand in Hand .......................................................204
“For” Explains Why ................................................................................205
So It Is ....................................................................................................206
Compound Sentence Review ..................................................................207
More Compound Sentences ....................................................................208
Which Conjunction? ..............................................................................209
Seeing Double Verbs ...............................................................................210
Two Nouns or Two Sentences? ................................................................211
What Are You Joining Today? .................................................................212
Quiz: Conjunction Here, Conjunction There .........................................213
Unit 8: Interjections
Interject Some Emotion! .........................................................................214
Stop! That’s an Interjection! ....................................................................215
Amazing Interjections .............................................................................216
Interjections Start Off Sentences With a Bang!........................................217
Surprising Interjections ...........................................................................218
Quiz: Interjection Fun ............................................................................219
Answer Key .......................................................................................................220
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