Junior skill builders
Subtitle: grammar in 15 minutes a day.
Contributors: LearningExpress (Organization)
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: LearningExpress, LLC
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781576856628
Subjects: English language -- Grammar -- Problems, exercises, etc; English language -- Grammar -- Examinations -- Study guides
Genres: Problems, exercises, etc.; Study guides.
Table of contents: title: Section 1. Parts of speech. Lesson 1. Nouns : common, proper, concrete, abstract, collective, compound. Lesson 2. Pronouns : personal, demonstrative, reflexive, intensive, indefinite. Lesson 3. Verbs : action, linking , helping. Lesson 4. Tenses : regular, irregular. Lesson 5. Adjectives : common, proper, possessive, demonstrative. Lesson 6. Adverbs. Lesson 7. Comparisons using adjectives and adverbs. Lesson 8. Prepositions and prepositional phrases. Lesson 9. Conjunctions.; title: Section 2. Parts of a sentence. Lesson 10. Subjects and predicates. Lesson 11. Direct and indirect objects.; title: Section 3. Building a sentence. Lesson 12. Phrases : adjective, adverb, appositive, gerund, participial. Lesson 13. Clauses : independent, subordinate. Lesson 14. Combining sentences : compound, complex, compound-complex. Lesson 15. Fragments and run-ons.; title: Section 4. Agreement. Lesson 16. Subject-verb agreement. Lesson 17. Pronoun-antecedent agreement.; title: Section 5. Punctuation. Lesson 18. Endmarks. Lesson 19. Commas part I. Lesson 20. Commas part II. Lesson 21. Colons and semicolons. Lesson 22. Quotation marks. Lesson 23. underlining and italicizing. Lesson 24. Brackets and parentheses. Lesson 25. Hyphens and dashes. Lesson 26. Apostrophes. Lesson 27. Capitalization.; title: Section 6. Confusing words. Lesson 28. Troublesome verbs. Lesson 29. Tricky words : homonyms, homographs. Lesson 30. Misplaced modifiers.