This book is a bare bones workbook with worksheets for elementary or middle school English students as well as ESL students. It is designed as a compliment to a live or online course in English grammar. It contains practice and exercises for a variety of topics, but there are no lessons or instruction of any kind. Space is provided for notes so that each educator can convey the necessary concepts in their own way.
Contents include:
1. Grammar Basics (Review)
- Nouns, Verbs
- Adjectives, Adverbs
- Pronouns
2. Sentences
- Subject/Verb Agreement
- NOTES
- Subject/ Predicate
- Clauses - Independent/Dependent
- NOTES
- Simple/Compound Sentences
- NOTES
- LIST of Subordinating Conjunctions
- Complex/Compound-Complex
- NOTES
- Sentence Types
3. Prepositions
- LIST of Prepositions
- NOTES
- Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
4. Compounds
- Subjects and Verbs
- Objects of Prepositions
5. Nouns
- NOTES
- Common/Proper
- Concrete/Abstract
- Subjects and Objects
- Pronouns (intro)
6. Adjectives
- NOTES
- Descriptive Adjectives
- NOTES
- Limiting Adjectives (Noun Determiners)
- NOTES
- Predicate Adjectives
7. Verbs
- NOTES
- Verb Tenses (Past, Present, Future)
- NOTES
- Action Verbs/Linking Verbs
- NOTES
- Predicate Adjectives
- Predicate Nominatives
- NOTES
- Transitive Verbs/Intransitive Verbs
- Direct Objects
- NOTES
- Indirect Objects
- LIST of Helping (Auxiliary) Verbs
- NOTES
- Helping Verbs and Verb Phrases
- Infinitives
- NOTES
- Contractions
- NOTES
- Irregular Past Tense
- Irregular Past Participle
8. Adverbs
- NOTES
- Descriptive ("How") Adverbs
- NOTES
- "When" Adverbs
- "Where" Adverbs
- "To What Extent" Adverbs
9. Pronouns
- NOTES
- Nominative (Subjective) Pronouns
- Objective Pronouns
- NOTES
- Possessive Pronouns
- Reflexive Pronouns
- Pronoun or Adjective?
10. Appositives
- NOTES
- Appositives
11. Verbals
- NOTES
- Verbals
