Bellringer Transparencies, Course 2 PDF

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Selection Focus Transparencies
Amigo Brothers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
The Highwayman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Rosa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
from Rosa Parks: My Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
We Are All One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Brer Rabbit and Brer Lion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Charles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
After Twenty Years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Slam, Dunk, & Hook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Aunty Misery and Strawberries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Annabel Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
The Scholarship Jacket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Names/Nombres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Toward a Rainbow Nation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Langston Terrace and Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
New Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Almost Ready . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
The Teacher Who Changed My Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
from Barrio Boy and How I Learned English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Missing and Birdfoots Grampa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
S E L E C T I O N F O C U S T R A N S PA R E N C Y
F OR USE WITH A MIGO B ROTHERS BY P IRI T HOMAS
ne friend in
a lifetime
is much; two are
many; three are
hardly possible.
Friendship needs a Henry Brooks Adams
(18381918)
certain parallelism
CORBIS.
of life, a community of
thought, a rivalry of aim.
Henry Brooks Adams
What does this quote about friendship

mean to you?
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F OR USE WITH T HE H IGHWAYMAN BY A LFRED N OYES
he sound
of a kiss
is not so loud
as that of a
cannon, but its Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
(18411935)
echo lasts a
Bettmann/CORBIS.
great deal longer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.,
physician and author
When two people love each other, what

sacrifices will they make for one another?

F OR USE WITH R OSA BY R ITA D OVE
e can do
anything
if we stick to it
long enough.
Helen Keller Helen Keller
(18801968)
Archive Photos.
How do you overcome difficult situations

and achieve your goals?

F OR USE WITH THE EXCERPT FROM R OSA P ARKS : M Y S TORY BY R OSA P ARKS
njustice
anywhere is
a threat to
justice
everywhere. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
(19291968)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Archive Photos.
Explain the message of this quote in your

own words. What is Dr. King saying about
determination?

F OR USE WITH W E A RE A LL O NE BY L AURENCE YEP
ooner or later
every one of
us breathes an
atom that has been
breathed before by
anyone you can Jacob Bronowski
(19081974)
think of who has
Anthony di Gesu, courtesy Little, Brown Co.

lived before usMichelangelo
or George Washington or
Moses.
Jacob Bronowski
Have we also breathed in atoms that were

previously breathed by animalsdogs or
horses or elephants? What does this say
about the interconnectedness of all living
things?

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he rabbit, known as
. . . Bruh Rabbit,
F OR
became a particular favorite of

the slave tellers. Rabbit was
USE WITH
small and apparently helpless

Virginia Hamilton
B RER R ABBIT
compared to the powerful bear, (1931)

AND
the wily fox, or the ferocious

wolf. But the slave teller made the
B RER L ION
BY
rabbit smart, tricky, and clever, the

winner over larger, stronger animals.
J ULIUS L ESTER
Virginia Hamilton
Ron Rovtar, used by permission of the author.
Why would the clever character of Brer Rabbit have strong
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appeal for people who were enslaved? Who might Brer Lion
be on a plantation?
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F OR USE WITH C HARLES BY S HIRLEY J ACKSON
hough it
be honest,
it is never good
to bring bad
news. William Shakespeare
(15641616)
North Wind Pictures.

William Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra
Do you agree or disagree with this

statement? What experiences have you
had that make you feel the way you do?

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he short
story is a potent
medium of education. . . . It
F OR
should break prejudice with

USE WITH
understanding. I propose to
send the down-and-outers O. Henry
(18621910)
into the drawing-rooms of the
A FTER TWENTY YEARS
Archive Photos.
get-it-alls and I intend to insure their

BY
welcome. All that the world needs is a

O. H ENRY
little more sympathy. . . .

O. Henry
How can a short story be a potent medium of education?

What do you think O. Henry meant by all the world needs is
a little more sympathy?
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F OR USE WITH S LAM , D UNK , & H OOK BY YUSEF K OMUNYAKAA
1999 Scott Cunningham/NBA Photos.
What do participants gain from playing

sports like basketball?

F OR USE WITH A UNTY M ISERY BY J UDITH O RTIZ C OFER
AND S TRAWBERRIES BY G AYLE R OSS
hen
suffering
knocks at your
door and you
say there is no Chinua Achebe
(1930)
seat for him, he
AP/Wide World Photos.

tells you not to worry
because he has brought
his own stool.
Chinua Achebe
Arrow of God
Do you think a persons attitude can help

deal with suffering when it comes at
your door?

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F OR
USE WITH
A NNABEL L EE
BY
E DGAR A LLAN P OE
A Rocky Coast, William Trost Richards, 1877. See CIVIS, 15th ed., 12.33. Watercolor and gouache on gray oatmeal wove paper, 22 3/16 x 36 in. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
What mood does the painting A Rocky Coast portray?

What kind of poem do you think would be illustrated
with a painting like this?
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F OR USE WITH T HE S CHOLARSHIP J ACKET BY M ARTA S ALINAS
he time is
always right
to do what is
right.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
(19291968)
Archive Photos.
Should a small unfairness at school or at

home be overlooked? Why?

F OR USE WITH N AMES /N OMBRES BY J ULIA A LVAREZ
t the
Anglo-
Indian day school
in Zorinabad . . .
they changed our
names. . . . Suppose Santha Rama Rau
(1923)
we give you pretty
Archive Photos.
English names. . . . Wouldnt
that be more jolly? Lets see,
now, [the headmistress] said to
me, how about Cynthia? Isnt
that nice?
Santha Rama Rau
How important do you think a name

is to a persons identity?

F OR USE WITH TOWARD A R AINBOW N ATION BY L AVENDHRI P ILLAY
1999 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/Artists Rights Society/Art Resource, NY.
What do you think the artist is trying to say in this

multiple-image art?

F OR USE WITH L ANGSTON TERRACE BY E LOISE G REENFIELD
AND H OME BY G WENDOLYN B ROOKS
id
pleasures
and palaces
though we
may roam, John Howard Payne
(17911823)
CORBIS.
Be it ever so humble,
theres no place like
home.
John Howard Payne
How do you feel about your home?

F OR USE WITH N EW D IRECTIONS BY M AYA A NGELOU
he great turn
stumbling blocks
into stepping stones.
Gilbert Ware
William Hastic: Grace Under Pressure
How do you respond when something

gets in your way?

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eople are just very
complicated electronic
mechanisms, and our emotions
F OR
of love, hate, anger, and fear

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are wired into our brains . . .

Im tinkering around inside the Candace Pert
human computer.
A LMOST R EADY
BY
Candace Pert, American neuroscientist

PhotoChris Casaburi.
A RNOLD A DOFF
Do you think that people are nothing more than very

complicated electronic mechanisms or human computers?
Why or why not?
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F OR USE WITH T HE TEACHER W HO C HANGED M Y L IFE BY N ICHOLAS G AGE
Jerry Cooke/Photo Researchers.
How would life be different for a child who left a village like this
one in Greece to live in a large city in the United States?

F OR USE WITH THE EXCERPT FROM B ARRIO B OY BY E RNESTO G ALARZA
AND H OW I L EARNED E NGLISH BY G REGORY D JANIKIAN
Now youre probably all asking yourselves,

Why must I learn to read and write?
Bernard Schoenbaum/The Cartoon Bank, Inc.
Have you ever felt uncomfortable on the

first day of school? Can you tell which
students are new to your class? How can
you tell?

F OR USE WITH T HE M ONSTERS A RE D UE ON M APLE S TREET BY R OD S ERLING
What Form Do Where Do They

They Take? Come from?
MONSTERS
What Do How Seriously Do

They Do? We Take Them?
What do you think a monster is?

F OR USE WITH M ISSING BY C LAIRE M ILLER AND B IRDFOOT S G RAMPA BY J OSEPH B RUCHAC
n wilderness
I sense the
miracle of life,
and behind it
our scientific
accomplishments Charles A. Lindbergh
(19021974)
fade to trivia.
CORBIS.
Charles A. Lindbergh, aviator
Which do you think are more awe-

inspiring: human accomplishments or the
workings of nature? A space launch or
Mt. Everest?

Daily Language Practice Transparencies
Comparative and Superlative AdjectivesGood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Comparative and Superlative AdjectivesBad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Sentences and Sentence Fragments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Capitalizing Names and Titles of People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Using Pronouns Correctly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Using Adverbs and Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Comparative and Superlative Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Using CommasSeries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Capitalizing Sentences, Quotations, and Letter Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Agreement with Compound Subjects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Using Troublesome Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Collective Nouns and Other Special Subjects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Troublesome WordsIts and Its. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Comparative and Superlative AdjectivesGood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Capitalizing Names of Places. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Using CommasIntroductory Prepositional Phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Using Pronouns Correctly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
More Irregular Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Appositives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Capitalizing Names of Places. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Using Quotation Marks and ItalicsTitles of Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Using Adverbs and Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Adverbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Run-on Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Using CommasIntroductory Prepositional Phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Pronouns and Antecedents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Appositives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Distinguishing Plurals, Possessives, and Contractions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Problems with Locating the Subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Possessive Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Avoiding Double Negatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Present, Past, and Future Tenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Using Quotation Marks and ItalicsDirect Quotations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Sentences and Sentence Fragments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Adverb Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Using Apostrophes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Possessive Pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Capitalizing Sentences, Quotations, and Letter Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Using CommasSeries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Making Subjects and Verbs Agree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Run-on Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Comparative and Superlative Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Main Verbs and Helping Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Adverb Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Indenite Pronouns as Subjects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Using Quotation Marks and ItalicsTitles of Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Capitalizing Names and Titles of People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Using Quotation Marks and ItalicsDirect Quotations; with Other Punctuation . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Irregular Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Agreement in Compound Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Capitalizing Other Proper Nouns and Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Run-on Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Demonstratives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Comparative and Superlative AdjectivesGood and Bad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Using Periods and Other End Marks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Capitalizing Other Proper Nouns and Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Using CommasSeries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Using Periods and Other End Marks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Compound Subjects and Predicates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Run-on Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Compound Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Possessive Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Distinguishing Plurals, Possessives, and Contractions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Collective Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Appositives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Avoiding Double Negatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Linking Verbs and Predicate Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Present, Past, and Future Tenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Main Verbs and Helping Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Progressive Forms of Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Perfect Tenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Irregular Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Personal Pronouns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Pronouns and Antecedents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Indenite Pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Reexive and Intensive Pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Interrogative Pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Articles and Proper Adjectives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Comparative and Superlative Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
More Comparative and Superlative Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Demonstratives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Adverbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Intensiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Comparative and Superlative Adverbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Using Adverbs and Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Avoiding Double Negatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Using CommasIntroductory Prepositional Phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Pronouns as Objects of Prepositions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Problems with Locating the Subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Agreement with Compound Subjects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Interjections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Main Verbs and Helping Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Sentences and Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Sentences and Sentence Fragments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Using CommasNonessential Appositives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Adverb Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Using Quotation Marks and ItalicsDirect Quotations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Participles and Participial Phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Making Subjects and Verbs Agree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Sentences and Sentence Fragments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Making Subjects and Verbs Agree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Problems with Locating the Subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Collective Nouns and Other Special Subjects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Indenite Pronouns as Subjects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Agreement with Compound Subjects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Using Troublesome Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Capitalizing Sentences, Quotations, and Letter Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Capitalizing Names and Titles of People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Capitalizing Names of Places. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Capitalizing Other Proper Nouns and Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Using Periods and Other End Marks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Using CommasWords That Interrupt Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Using CommasCoordinating Conjunctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Using CommasCity, State; Too . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Using Semicolons and Colons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Using Quotation Marks and ItalicsDirect Quotations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Using Apostrophes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Using Hyphens, Dashes, and Parentheses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Using Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Writing Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Compound Subjects and Predicates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Compound Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Distinguishing Plurals, Possessives, and Contractions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Writing Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Participles and Participial Phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Pronouns as Objects of Prepositions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Reexive and Intensive Pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Perfect Tenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Present, Past, and Future Tenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Using CommasSeries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Run-on Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Using CommasCoordinating Conjunctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Adverb Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Comparative and Superlative Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Demonstratives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Using CommasWords That Interrupt Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Using CommasIntroductory Prepositional Phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Appositives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Avoiding Double Negatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Possessive Pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Pronouns and Antecedents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Interjections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Using CommasDirect Address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Perfect Tenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Present, Past, and Future Tenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Using CommasAdverb Clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Indenite Pronouns as Subjects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Reexive and Intensive Pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Daily Language Practice Transparency 1
Each of the following sentences contains one or more

errors. Find the errors and correct the sentences.
1. Yesterday was one of the most good days of the

summer.
2. The weather couldnt have been more better for

hiking.
3. Saturday and Sunday were both good days, but

Sunday was best.
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1. Well, I just had my baddest basketball game ever.
2. My first shot missed by a mile, and the next was even

worst.
3. I thought that it couldnt get any more bad, and then I

fell down.

Just bought a journal. Pen, too. Plan to write in that

journal every day. Or try to, anyway.

1. My Uncle is giving a party for his girlfriend, t.j. Davis.
2. Shes a Police Officer and was recently promoted to

Captain.
3. I wonder if uncle Bill will call his girlfriend captain

Davis.

1. Curt and me had an adventure last year.
2. After us climbed a farmers fence, a bull chased he

and I.
3. Curt was scared, but I was more frightened than him.

1. Anne Frank was both a real person and real

memorable.
2. She behaved brave even when she felt nervously and

fearfully.

1. My specialest day was when I visited Wolf Park.
2. The wolves were more friendlier and less smaller than

I had expected.
3. They werent any more big than my dog.

1. I woke up late skipped breakfast and couldnt find my

homework.
2. I tripped on a skate fell down the front steps and tore

my pants.
3. Now I was tardy messy grouchy hungry tired and

ready for a great day.

1. The interviewer asked me what students my age like

to read.
2. I said, well, I can tell you what I like.
3. My favorite stories, I said, Are the ones about real

people.

1. Mari and Jim, who live next door, always gives a New
Years Eve party.
2. Both my cousin Sue and I am going for the first time.
3. Until this year, neither she nor I were allowed to stay

out so late.

1. Before Halley could leave the room, she had to chose

her report topic.
2. Standing besides the board, she tried to decide

between the four not all ready taken.

1. Our school are having a carnival.
2. My class plan to run a ring-toss game.
3. Two weeks are a long time to wait.

1. Its hard to go to a new school with its unfamiliar halls

and rooms.
2. At least its easy to find the gym by its noises and the
lunchroom by its smells.

1. I think this has been the bestest rehearsal weve had.
2. The acting was much more good than it was

yesterday.
3. Even the goodest actors in the world couldnt do more

better.

1. Mike entered the harrison community center for his

first 4-H Club meeting.
2. In a noisy meeting room, he found club members

from all over boone county.
3. Everyone was busily filling out entry forms for the

iowa state fair.

1. Between two houses on our street broken glass and

litter covered an empty lot.
2. With a couple of free hours I started to clean it up.
3. Before too long and without being asked six other

people joined me.

1. Nathan and me traded papers when the teacher told

him and I to check each others sentence variety.
2. Us students have to do that kind of thing often, but

we dont mind.

1. I knowed that I had to proofread my story, but I

putted it off until the last minute.
2. Today I given a quick look at what I had wrote.
3. Thank goodness I done that!

1. Mr. Waldorf my computer teacher had run out of

ideas.
2. The new monitor the best model available wouldnt

work.
3. Not exactly an expert with computers I solved the

problem by plugging it in.

1. I grew up in fair oaks, a suburb east of sacramento,

california.
2. Dad was stationed at mather air force base.
3. Nearby were Folsom lake and a national forest.

1. Farleys Folks is a novel about a man who tries to

discover his past.
2. Farley learns in the first chapter, Surprises, that he

had been adopted.
3. The television show Family Life had a similar story

last month.

1. The lady rode calm but cautious through the crowd.
2. She pretended to feel comfortably, but she could see

that people were behaving wild.
3. Her good friend, usual so skillful with horses, was

quick losing patience.

1. The storm beat furious and then left as quick as it

had come.
2. A full moon peeked shy through the clouds.
3. The town slept peaceful, barely noticing its snowy

blanket.

I like to draw imaginary creatures and then I make up

stories about them. The unicorn is my favorite its so
beautiful and its horn makes it unique.

1. In my eerie setting, darkness would make everything

look differently.
2. No one would feel happily about being in such a

gloomy, scary place.
3. Every little noise would sound suspiciously.

1. For visitors to New York City the Empire State Building

is a popular attraction.
2. From the top of this 102-story skyscraper they can

see spectacular views.

1. In the book, when Julie and Anna meet for the first
time, she doesnt even know she has a sister.
2. The two girls quickly become close friends even

though she is much older.

1. My favorite poet Gwendolyn Brooks writes about

ordinary things.
2. Mrs. Marian the librarian gave me a book of poems by

Brooks.

1. Lynn and me want to visit Spain someday.
2. I think that I and she would be good traveling

companions.
3. The same things interest her and I.

1. The Gathering, Virginia Hamiltons book, is about four

mind travelers.
2. Its set in a world where anyone can read another

persons thoughts.
3. I dont always enjoy science fiction, but this storys

setting appealed to me.

1. There is, I think, a million things I dont know about

computers.
2. Here, for example, is a few: bits, bytes, boots, and

bugs.

1. James favorite book is about diving for sunken

treasure.
2. The hero follows an ancient maps clues.
3. He narrowly escapes a great white sharks attack.

1. I dont have nothing good to say about that story.
2. First, hardly nobody in the story does nothing that

real people do.
3. Second, it just doesnt have no good ending.

1. Yesterday, I walk to my friend Marys house after

school.
2. She live next to the park.
3. Tomorrow, we rides our bikes through the park.

1. I dont really care what people say. Candice said.
2. John wished that he felt as self-confident as Candice

did.
3. Your problem, John, Candice noted, is that you worry

too much.

Tell you about my life? Where to start? Born and raised

in this town. Never left. May sound boring. But its not.
A story about my life.

1. As the story begins the girl is being treated cruelly by

her brothers.
2. Although she is terribly upset she hides her feelings.
3. She doesnt cry or complain, until they leave.

1. My favorite movies title is Its a Wonderful Life.
2. In case you dont know, the story is about how one

persons life affects everyone elses.

1. My classmates and I voted on their favorite president.
2. Abraham Lincoln was mine choice.
3. Is he a hero of yours, too?

1. there was a bad earthquake in Turkey last night.
2. Carla said, we should send aid to help the people.

1. My favorite animals are dogs elephants and sharks.
2. People often misunderstand sharks think theyre

dumb and fear theyll attack for no reason.

1. My favorite shoes is the basketball shoes I wears

everyday.
2. I has other shoes, but my basketball shoes feels best.

Getting there is easy and safe but you need to know the
public transportation system you can ride the subway or
bus, some people just take a cab.

1. Sharks and dolphins are both fast swimmers, but

sharks are fastest.
2. Dolphins are more smart than sharks, and it is easiest

to train them.

1. Right now, my lab partner and I repeat an experiment

again.
2. This is the third time that we had done it.

1. Snow has fallen nearly every day, since the beginning

of the month.
2. When the wind blows the cars, streets, and sidewalks

disappear under drifts.
3. Because snow is still falling Dad is going to buy a

snowplow.

1. In summer, everybody around here escape to the lake.
2. Many prefers to swim or sail, but nothing make me

happier than fishing.

1. For my paper, I checked out a book called Edgar

Allan Poe.
2. I also read the article The Master of Mood in the

magazine American Writers.
3. The article quoted many lines from Poes poem The

Raven.

1. You know that thomas jefferson was brilliant and

creative.
2. You know that he was our third President.
3. Did you know that jefferson designed the university

of virginia?

1. Its good, said Ms. Shaw, to start your paper with a

thesis statement.
2. Then she asked, Does anyone know what that is?
3. Its a sentence, I replied, that explains the main idea.

1. Jess had maked many careless errors in his first draft.
2. Later he feeled glad that he had catched them before

he begun to present his paper to the class.

1. John and Bill has different personalities, but either one

or the other are always entertaining.
2. Both school work and basketball is important to each

boy, but neither John nor Bill play hockey.

1. Every sunday we enjoy a delicious asian meal.
2. Our neighborhood grocery store sells vietnamese,

thai, and laotian foods.

Thick woods. Hard to hike through. Filled with living

things. Both plants and animals. Too many to count.

Martin Luther King, Jr., was a great speaker and

his speeches are still powerful. King encouraged
nonviolence and yet tragically he became the victim of
violence four years after being awarded the 1964 Nobel
Peace Prize.

1. Them paintings are landscapes.
2. April Gornick painted this here one in 1987.

1. Me and Mike did our report on endangered animals.
2. If it were up to Mike and I, there would be stronger

laws to protect them.

1. The most good evidence against the man was his own
fingerprint.
2. Fortunately for him, he had a gooder alibi than the

other suspect.

1. Will you play tennis with Sue.
2. How awesome she is
3. Sue won the last three matches?

1. My american history report is on european

immigration in the 1800s.
2. In my research, I read about the celts of ancient Irish

origins.
3. I had always wondered how the boston celtics got

that name.

1. Did you see the publicity for Kennedy Schools

concert?
2. The posters bright colors and good design make them

hard to miss.
3. Leaving out the concert date was the artists one

mistake.

1. Why is this School named for William T. Sherman, the

Civil War General?
2. Last fall, I wrote to ms. Medina, who is the

Superintendent of Schools.
3. I suggested renaming the school to honor dr. Martin

luther king, jr.

1. We all liked the intelligent characters the goofy humor

and the believable plot.
2. Its rare when my mom dad sisters grandpa and, I

enjoy the same movie.

1. In the United States, Americans often take for granted

his or her many rights and freedoms.
2. A citizens right to vote is among their most important

privileges.
3. Many nations deny this opportunity to its citizens.

1. Should we study at Chris house or in the librarys

reading room?
2. Some of his sisters friends are going to his house.
3. Whats your preference?

1. Watch where you step
2. Why would someone dump trash on such a beautiful

trail
3. I was in a good mood, but now Im hopping mad.

Dad planted it. This spruce. Many years ago. Hoped it

would make a nice Christmas tree someday. Grew tall.
Beautiful. Dad couldnt bear to cut it down.

1. Does the environments problems worry you?
2. There are usually some solution to any problem.
3. Are there a way to find the solution?

1. Near the equator lies almost all of the worlds tropical

rain forests.
2. Year-round warmth and rainfall produces abundant

plant and animal life.
3. Most parts of a rain forests floor, however, receives

very little light.

1. Pedro and his brother loves to swim in the creek.
2. Now, though, dead fish and pollution makes it unsafe.

My birthday is this week my best friends is next week.

She suggested recycling my party and I think its a great
idea. Well reuse the decorations but Im buying her a
new cake.

1. My mother and i love to listen to old jack benny

shows.
2. Our neighbor, mr. garcia, gave us some tapes of that

radio show.

1. My step mothers brothers are my dads brother-in-

laws.
2. One of them is the editorinchief of our news paper.

1. Flying kites is my brothers hobby and science project.
2. He flies the flat kind shown in artists drawings of

Benjamin Franklins experiment.
3. He thinks a box kites shape will not attract lightnings

electricity.

1. The highlight of Jims vacation was Floridas Cape

Canaveral.
2. The rockets roar sent shivers of excitement through

him.
3. Jims hoping to go back for next springs shuttle

launch.

1. Our whole family still gather each year at

Thanksgiving.
2. At noon, an energetic group split into teams for touch

football.
3. Later the dining room fills as the crowd takes their

assigned chairs.

1. Rachel my eight-year-old cousin wants to be an

inventor.
2. Her hero is Thomas Edison inventor of the light bulb.
3. A very creative young thinker Rachel is sure to

succeed.

1. People in China 2,400 years ago knowed how to play

a game similar to soccer.
2. In the 1860s, the English writed down the first rules.
3. It taked a while, but soccer has growed to be the

worlds most popular sport.

1. In some sentences, the verbs dont have no objects.
2. You wont find nothing that receives the action in

those sentences.

1. The teacher gave Sue and I an assignment to locate

indirect objects.
2. The assignment made she and I happy.

1. Team sports grow more popularly in our school every

year.
2. I feel badly about being a terrible athlete.
3. I dont want to appear clumsily to my teammates.

1. All last fall and winter, Kendra work on her running.
2. She sprint much better now than she do when she

start.
3. Next spring she be ready to race.

1. Is this the first time that Shari be competing in

archery?
2. No, she have play in tournaments for about three

years.
3. Before that, she have devoted her time to golf.

1. One referee be signaling a goal kick, and the other be

calling it a corner kick.
2. I guess they not looking at the same play.

1. Since I started school, my aunt and uncle attend all of

my games.
2. Before I learned about astronauts, I want to be a

professional soccer player.

1. Our skating meet begun late, but we winned the gold

medal!
2. The team van finally creep back into town after

midnight.
3. Thats why I catched a few extra winks this morning.

1. That hockey team has really grew since last season!
2. All those scrawny players have putted on muscle and

gained speed.
3. If they havent broke all scoring records by years end,

Ill be surprised.

1. Amy was surprised when Ann mentioned that her

loved mythology.
2. Mythology gave the two girls something that she

could share.
3. Before that, them had felt lonely.

1. The Greeks are the origin of many great myths, and

they are easy to understand after youve heard a few.
2. The stories my uncles tell are good, too, even though

theyre Hungarian.

1. Carrie and me wrote about television shows based on

Roman myths.
2. Mr. Howl, our teacher, asked she and I to read our

report aloud to the class.
3. The students and him appreciated our references to

Hercules and Xena.

1. This isnt mine literature book, but it may be yours or

Marys.
2. Maybe someones name is written inside its cover.

1. Each of us were assigned to write an original myth.
2. Everybody are supposed to explain their family

history or a part of nature.

1. You and myself need a break.
2. Paul Bunyan hisself wouldnt work so hard on such a

hot day!
3. Hed take a nap, with the hills theirselves as his

pillows.

1. Quick! Before class starts, whom is the hero of this

myth?
2. Oh, whose kidding who? I need to study for this test!

1. We felt unhappily when our old stove broke, but our

friendly neighbor became more helpfully than ever.
2. The huge meal he made for us smelled wonderfully

and tasted deliciously.

1. My mother was the first in her family to get a

education.
2. She studied Europe history in several countries on a

continent of Europe.

1. I like the Sears Tower and the John Hancock Building,

but I like the Sears Tower best.
2. Even so, one of the worse feelings I ever got involved

looking down from the top of Chicagos most tall
building.

1. I think that the pyramids were the greatest,

difficultest construction job ever.
2. Did the pyramid builders have a least challenging task

than modern architects do?

1. Do any of these here houses look familiar to you?
2. All of them colonial-style houses look alike.
3. That map Im looking at is no help at all.

1. TV critics talk frequent about the First Golden Age of

television.
2. This phrase usual refers to the late 1950s and early

1960s.
3. I Love Lucy and other high praised shows filled the

airwaves.

1. Our trip was real fun and satisfying.
2. The tour guide was so much helpful.
3. We traveled way far everyday and saw near

everything in the city.

1. Kim listens most attentive than any other student in

class.
2. Is it any wonder that her grades are the better of all?
3. Good listening skills help students do best.

1. When he first saw Stonehenge, it looked plainly and

dully.
2. Sunlight sudden burned bright through the clouds.
3. The stones came magical to life.

1. They hadnt hardly finished the model adobe house

when it fell apart.
2. A more disappointed group of children wasnt

nowhere to be seen.
3. They didnt believe nothing that bad would happen.

1. Of all the artists in the history of the world

Michelangelo tops the list.
2. From painting, on canvas, to painting, on walls, he

was a master.

1. Do you want to see the Rembrandt exhibit with Mrs.

Field and I?
2. Ive learned so much from she about he and other

Dutch painters.

1. Two blankets from different parts of the world is on

display.
2. The design of one of the blankets use all sorts of

bright colors.
3. The other, instead of using many colors, gain beauty

from the fine yarns.

1. Both Maria and Alex has decided to report on Picasso.
2. Either Hank or Emily are considering Degas.
3. Neither the Wilson twins nor Bob have chosen a

painter.

1. Gosh. What an awful painting that is!
2. Good grief who painted it?
3. My look at the price. Wow.

1. We was going to go to the art center today, but it was

closed.
2. Now we is checking the centers weekend hours.
3. Why dont you come, too, if you hasnt made plans for
Saturday?

1. Ive been to Mexico and Canada but Ive never

traveled outside North America.
2. Id like to visit Asia and Africa and Australia sounds

interesting.
3. My friend rode the train across Siberia and it took

eight full days.

When the new camels arrive at the zoo. Really want to

spend the whole day there. Because camels have always
interested me.

1. Jo who grew up in China learned to ride a bike at the

age of four.
2. She won the first race, that she entered.
3. She is now a young woman, who hopes to race in the

Olympics.

1. Marco chose that bike, because it was on sale.
2. Although he wanted a more expensive model he

didnt get it.
3. I would have lent him money, if he had asked me.

1. Bob asked what a noun clause is.
2. It has a subject and a verb, I said, but it is used as a

noun.
3. I recommended that he study the book, Writers

Choice: Grammar and Composition.

1. Soaring gently on air currents a glider is so peaceful.
2. It must be towed into the sky having no engine of its

own.
3. Purchased before I even got my pilots license this one

is my favorite.

1. Buying groceries with computers are common today.
2. Making purchases this way save time.

For years. Messengers have used bicycles. To get around

in crowded cities. In recent times, to move even more
easily. Many messengers have switched to in-line skates.

1. Fire and Ice are my favorite Robert Frost poem.
2. It tells ways that people thinks the world might end.
3. The poem say that strong feelings is dangerous.

1. What nicknames for Chicago does you know?
2. A long list of some of them appear in a Carl Sandburg

poem.
3. Windy City, one of Chicagos most common

nicknames, are not in the poem.

1. The crowd are made up of people eager to hear which

poem will win.
2. The committee of judges has been unable to make up

their minds.
3. Since a thousand dollars are the prize, the poets are

eager also.

1. Everyone in my class have to read a poem aloud.
2. Many is reciting poems by Emily Dickinson or Walt

Whitman.
3. Until recently neither of those poets were very

familiar to me.

1. Neither country music nor folk music really appeal

to me.
2. Both rock and rap entertains me.
3. The blues or a good jazz piece get my pulse going.

1. The four of us can go altogether.
2. Mother has all ready started the car.
3. Between the four of us, we have everything we need.

1. Why dont you lay down on the couch or set in that

chair for a minute?
2. Their both comfortable, but the chair has a lose leg

that makes it wobble.

1. Keesha began, life on a wagon train was unbelievably

hard.
2. she described details that she had learned in her

Research.
3. Most people I know, She concluded, Wouldnt have

survived a week.

1. John m. lewis, jr., m.d., teaches history at the

university.
2. Hes an expert on meriwether lewis and william clark,

the explorers.
3. Most people know him as doc lewis, but i call him

uncle john.

1. Many Places in the southwest have Spanish names.
2. Texas, for example, has san antonio and the pecos

river.
3. In louisiana, which is East of texas, French names are

more popular.

1. In 1906 a canadian gold rush brought fame to Robert

Service, a british poet.
2. While working for the bank of commerce in the

Yukon, he wrote three Books of Poetry.
3. Services most popular poem is the cremation of Sam

McGee.

Wow Did you know that old locomotives were so huge

I dont see how steam could run such a big machine
Do you

1. Planning an ocean voyage I have found can be

exhausting.
2. Just choosing a ship a deck and a room was harder

than I expected.
3. Yes Ill be ready to relax when the trip begins.

1. Mary wanted to see the pyramids but she hadnt

planned to go by camel.
2. It seemed risky because, camels sometimes bite

people.
3. As soon as Mary climbed up on the camel it glided

peacefully forward.

1. Ottawa Ontario is Canadas national capital.
2. We visited in May, 1999 to see the Festival of Spring.
3. Ottawa, has a wonderful winter festival too.

1. Mom and I are planning our trip Dad will do most of

the driving.
2. This year were visiting these states Ohio, Indiana,

Michigan, and Illinois.

1. Lets go to Japan! exclaimed Bill, a big train buff.
2. He had just read an article called Fastest Bullet in the

East.
3. In Japan, the article began, the trains are fast,

inexpensive, and quiet.

1. Im supposed to go to Anns cousins house to buy a

bicycle.
2. Ive lost the address, but I know the street name has
several es in it.
3. Nobodys answering the phone at Anns. What shall

I do?

1. A space shuttle a spacecraft that can return to Earth

will lift off today.
2. The mission is expected to last twenty two days.
3. The well educated crew includes a seventh grade

teacher.

1. Your appointment is at 3:10 p.m. on Mon., Apr. 23.
2. The Dr.s office is on Elm Dr., next to the Y.M.C.A.

1. The trip is 198 miles, including forty miles of

unpaved roads.
2. 4 hours of driving is my best estimate.
3. If we arrive by 2 oclock, were likely to be the 1st

ones there.

1. My research paper on Alaska and my science test was

the reasons for my trip to the library.
2. While there, I talks to the librarian and found the

material I needed.

1. Libraries use systems to organize theyre books.
2. Our teacher learned us about the Dewey Decimal

System.

1. The group had a bakesale to raise funds for the

school-library.
2. We sold everything from chocolate cup cakes to

raisinbread.
3. There was enough money to buy two new desktop-

computers.

1. The almanacs on the shelf.
2. See if it has information about last years elections.

1. Our library ranks 1st on the list of most-used libraries

in the state.
2. About twenty % of the 8 hundred people in town used

it last year.
3. 85 people visited between 9 this morning and 6 this

evening.

1. I spent the day, reading magazines.
2. Tired I left the library when it closed.

1. Ashley borrowed the thesaurus from Darnell and I.
2. Now we need it again, but we dont know to who

Ashley lent it.

1. My friend Ray and myself are very good at word

games.
2. Our other friends get theirselves all worked up when

we win.
3. Dictionaries have been a big help to ourselves.

1. My parents have visit Germany many times.
2. They have, however, travel there together only once.
3. Until last June, I have never been to Europe at all.

1. What on earth do this word mean?
2. I misplace my dictionary.
3. Let me use yours, and I return it in two minutes.

1. A word may contain a root a prefix and a suffix.
2. See what is added to spec to form respect disrespect

disrespectful and disrespectfulness.

Be careful with synonyms they cant always be

substituted for each other. Nice and thoughtful
are synonyms this doesnt mean a nice day is a
thoughtful day.

1. Joe said hed like a nice, long fall before winter and
Brian pretended to misunderstand.
2. Brian said, You could jump off a mountain but I dont

recommend it.

1. While spelling is difficult for me its no problem for my

sister.
2. Before I take a spelling test I study for days.
3. She gets perfect scores, although she rarely studies.

1. Some words are more harder to spell than others.
2. Some that seem the most easiest turn out to be more

trickier than you think.

1. Its easier to learn the English language then you

might think.
2. Remember to sit your dictionary on your desk before

you begin to study.

1. Look at this here book of photographs.
2. Them photos on the cover drew my attention.

1. Skimming a piece of writing as you know takes less

time than reading it.
2. Some kinds of writing of course should not be

skimmed.

1. For my report on this book I will give you a brief

summary.
2. On a small farm, in the South, of long ago, a boy

struggles to survive.
3. After many hardships and in spite of his fathers death

he finally finds happiness.

1. Zak and Tamara tops in their class are excellent

students.
2. A terrific athlete Tamara also leads in sports.

1. No one couldnt improve his grades but the boy

himself.
2. He hardly never watched television.
3. After school he wouldnt do nothing but study.

1. I cant read mine own notes. May I see yours?
2. I borrowed Jeans notes, but hers are worse than

mine.

1. Ms. Black told Gina that she needed to put the

information in a graphic form.
2. This table shows sports played by girls, but it doesnt

reveal why they are so popular.

1. Oh, no I forgot the answer! Boy am I embarrassed.
2. Hold on its coming to me. Aha. Ive got it!

1. Marty you will have to study.
2. No there will be no notes allowed during the test.

1. Emily have spent many hours of her life taking tests.
2. At thirteen, she feels that she had finally mastered the

art of test taking.

1. I mostly enjoys taking tests. Does you?
2. Last night, to prepare for this test, I practice

analogies.
3. So I think I do well on the analogy section at least.

1. When the teacher is talking I try to listen.
2. If I let my mind wander I miss important points.

1. Id like to interview Martha Johnson shes had an

interesting life.
2. Besides living in: Egypt and Vietnam, she has traveled

in the following places, Poland, Hong Kong, and South
Africa.

1. Everyone have ideas worth hearing.
2. Nobody deserve to be ignored.
3. At least listen to both ideas even if neither

interest you.

1. Tom and myself are doing an oral report on the

history of sign language.
2. Tom hisself is hearing impaired, so hell sign while

I speak.
3. Weve set aside for ourself four evenings to practice.

1. I never used to like speaking in public I would always

get so nervous.
2. Now I enjoy giving speeches, I give them often.

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