Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Grammar - Muschla Gary Robert 2010
About this book
How to use this book
Sentences
Kinds and structures of sentences
E. B. White
Special States
A Space First
Subjects and predicates
A President’s Ride in an Automobile
First Settlement
Hungry Toads
Above the South Pole
Native American Explorer
First Flight
Two of a Kind
The Biggest Turtle of All
American Flag Maker
Center of the Land
Passing Time
Fragments and run-on sentences
Big Mouth
Outlaw Hero
Famous Woodpecker
Nickname for a President
First Phone Call
Famous Woman Dentist
Cool Creation
Nouns
Nouns
Frontier Hero
Snakes
Surrounded States
Going West
Forming Plural Nouns
Famous Signature
Up, Up, and Away
Nouns with Special Plural Forms
Fast-Food First
Possessive Nouns
Famous Crime Fighter
Guide to Freedom
Famous Monument
Pluto
Sources of Energy
Snowy City
Game for Kids
Verbs
Two Kinds of Verbs
Author of a Classic Story
Flying While Sleeping
A Philadelphia First
Planets and Stars
Aiming for the Stars
Nighttime Animals
Not an Ordinary Tornado
Related to Mickey
Busy Bees
Hurricanes by Another Name
Direct Objects
What’s the Weather?
Walking on a Tightrope
Nouns and Adjectives That Follow Linking Verbs
Favorite Cookie
Contractions with Not
Naming America
Verb Tenses
Rules for Forming the Tenses of Verbs
Earthquakes
Food for Plants
Coral Reef
Agreement Between Subjects and Verbs
What a Hoot!
Sports Fans
E. L. Konigsburg
Regular and Irregular Verbs
Gateway to a New Life
Big Ears
Men on the Moon
Two Special Verbs: Be and Have
Small Dog
Searching Everywhere
Warriors and Explorers
Three Special Sets of Letters
Great Explorer
Step up to the Plate
Pronouns
Pronouns
Fairy Tale Author
Tinkering Around
Hot Dogs
Flat State
Subject pronouns
Word Game
Object pronouns
Moving Along . . . Slowly
Two special pronouns: I and Me
Big Eyes
Brothers and Sisters
Dr. Seuss
Possessive pronouns
Astronauts
American Composer
Plenty of Prairie
Pronoun contractions
Born on the Fourth of July
Discoverer of Antibiotics
Animals with Great Memories
Dangerous Fish
Tiny Mammal
Pets
Adjectives
Adjectives
Great Athlete
A Fact About the Cells of Your Body
Unusual Colony
The Civil War
Comparing with adjectives
Special adjectives and comparing
Radio Signals
Calling Mr. President
Manhattan
Inventor of the Very First Computer
Studying the Earth
Adverbs
Adverbs
Bones of the Human Body
Journey Westward
Bats
Comparing with adverbs
Fairy Tales
Standing Tall
By Another Name
Negative words and double negatives
Dangerous Lizard
Giant Storm
Bacteria and Disease
Start of a Star
Rescue Dogs
Prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections
Prepositions
A States
Insects
Special Animals
Prepositional phrases
President’s Plane
Body System
Long Before E-Mail
Soccer
Miniature Golf
Conjunctions
One of the Very First Cars
Interjections
Ancient Astronomer
Puzzling Pastime
Studying Bugs
Lots of Animals
Ski Tournament
Punctuation and capitalization
Abbreviations
More Common than You May Think
Born in the U.S.A.
End punctuation
Bachelor President
Stargazer
Commas
Big Boulder
First Settlement
Mighty River
Colons and hyphens
Leaky Faucet
Apostrophes
Famous Artist
End of the Revolutionary War
First Vice President
Quotation marks
Meteors
Volcanoes and Earthquakes
Landlocked
Italics
First Female Police Officer
Discoverer of Bacteria
Ellis Island First
Speedy Dog
Measuring the Power of Earthquakes
Explorer of Florida
Is There a Doctor in the House?
Constellation
Much Bigger than a Mouse
Minus Snakes
American Legend
Down by the Sea
Turning from Side to Side
American Royalty
Capitalization
Butterfly by Another Name
South Pacific Explorer
Flowing Backward
Heading to Brazil
Peninsula State
Lands Down Under
Usage and proofreading
Confusing words
Strange Creature
Around the World
First Football Game in the United States
The Green Earth
Proofreading for mistakes in grammar
Bug-Eating Mammal
Meet the Flintstones
One of Science’s Greats
Arbor Day
Early Colonist
Father’s Day
Tallest Mountain
Cool Idea
Basics of English
A Puzzle About You
Answer key