Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Grammar - Muschla Gary Robert 2010

How to use this book

Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Grammar is divided into nine parts. Each part concentrates on grammar skills and includes tip sheets and worksheets. An answer key for the worksheets is included at the end of the book.

Part 1 “Sentences” includes three tip sheets and seventeen worksheets that focus on sentence types, sentence structure, subjects, predicates, fragments, and run-on sentences. In addition, four review worksheets are included at the end of Part 1.

Part 2 “Nouns” includes four tip sheets and ten worksheets that focus on singular nouns, plural nouns, common nouns, proper nouns, irregular plural nouns, and possessive nouns. Part 2 concludes with four review worksheets.

Part 3 “Verbs” contains nine tip sheets and twenty-five worksheets that cover action verbs, verb phrases, linking verbs, direct objects, nouns and adjectives that follow linking verbs, contractions with verbs, tenses, subject-verb agreement, and irregular verbs. Four review worksheets conclude this part of the book.

Part 4 “Pronouns” contains six tip sheets and fifteen worksheets on personal pronouns, subject pronouns, object pronouns, possessive pronouns, contractions with pronouns, and antecedents. Three review worksheets are also included.

Part 5 “Adjectives” contains three tip sheets and seven worksheets on identifying adjectives, proper adjectives, and the comparison of adjectives. Two review worksheets conclude Part 5.

Part 6 “Adverbs” includes three tip sheets and eight worksheets on identifying adverbs, the comparison of adverbs, and double negatives. Part 6 also includes three review worksheets.

Part 7 “Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections” contains four tip sheets and ten worksheets on prepositions, prepositional phrases, objects of prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. Part 7 ends with four review worksheets.

Part 8 “Punctuation and Capitalization” contains eight tip sheets and twenty-three worksheets on end punctuation, commas, colons, hyphens, apostrophes, quotation marks, italics, and capitalization. Eleven review worksheets are also included.

Part 9 “Usage and Proofreading” contains one tip sheet and four worksheets on common words that cause confusion, and one tip sheet and ten worksheets on proofreading to find grammatical mistakes.

The tip sheets and worksheets throughout the book are designed to make learning grammar easier. Each tip sheet serves as a resource, providing facts and information about topics and skills in grammar. The worksheets have easy-to-follow directions and require no additional materials. You may want to check the tip sheets if you need help in completing the worksheets. The worksheets are self-correcting. You are presented with a trivia-type question at the top of the worksheet, which you can answer by completing the worksheet correctly.

The skills covered in this book follow the typical language arts and grammar curriculum for grades 4—5. The skill or topic addressed in each worksheet is included with the number and title of the worksheet in the table of contents. The table of contents therefore serves as a skills list.

You will find that some skills and topics are addressed by two, three, or more worksheets. In such cases, the worksheets progress in degree of difficulty from basic to more challenging—the first worksheet of the set being designated by 1, the second by 2, the third by 3, and so on.

The tip sheets and worksheets throughout this book offer 206 separate activities. They offer a variety of exercises that will help you gain a greater understanding of grammar.