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1 GLENCOE LANGUAGE ARTS. Grammar and LANGUAGE workbook G RADE 7. GLENCOE /McGraw-Hill Copyright by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Send all inquiries to: GLENCOE /McGraw-Hill 8787 Orion Drive Columbus, Ohio 43240. ISBN 0-07-820540-9. Printed in the United States of America 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 009 03 02 01 00.

2 Contents Handbook of Definitions and Rules ..1 Comparative and Superlative Troubleshooter ..23 Adjectives ..121. More Comparative and Superlative Part 1 Grammar ..45 Adjectives ..123. Unit 1 Subjects, Predicates, and Sentences Kinds of Sentences: Declarative and Interrogative ..47 Kinds of Sentences: Exclamatory Adverbs: Comparative and Imperative ..49 and Superlative ..131. Subjects and Predicates ..51 Using Adverbs and Adjectives ..133. Compound Subjects and Predicates ..53 Avoiding Double Negatives.

3 135. Sentence Fragments ..55 Unit 5 Review ..137. Simple and Compound Sentences ..57 Cumulative Review: Units 1 5 ..138. Unit 1 Review ..59. Cumulative Review ..60 Unit 6 Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections Prepositions and Prepositional Unit 2 Nouns Nouns: Proper and Common ..61 Pronouns as Objects of Prepositions ..143. Nouns: Concrete, Abstract, Prepositional Phrases as Adjectives and and Adverbs ..145. Nouns: Compound and Conjunctions and Nouns: Distinguishing Plurals, Unit 6 Review.

4 149. Possessives, and Contractions ..67 Cumulative Review: Units 1 6 ..150. Unit 2 Review ..71 Unit 7 Clauses and Complex Sentences Cumulative Review: Units 1 2 ..72 Simple and Compound Sentences and Main Clauses ..153. Unit 3 Verbs Complex Sentences and Action Subordinate Verbs: Transitive and Intransitive ..75 Adjective Clauses ..157. Verbs with Indirect Objects ..77 Adverb Linking Verbs and Predicate Words ..79 Noun Verb Tenses: Present, Past, Unit 7 Review ..163. and Future ..83 Cumulative Review: Units 1 7.

5 164. Main Verbs and Helping Progressive Forms: Present and Past ..91 Unit 8 Verbals Copyright by GLENCOE /McGraw-Hill Perfect Tenses: Present and Past ..93 Participles and Participial Irregular Verbs Gerunds and Gerund Phrases ..171. Irregular Verbs II ..97 Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases ..175. Unit 3 Review ..101 Unit 8 Review ..179. Cumulative Review: Units 1 3 ..102 Cumulative Review: Units 1 8 ..180. Unit 4 Pronouns Unit 9 Subject-Verb Agreement Pronouns: Personal ..103 Making Subjects and Verbs Agree.

6 183. Pronouns and Locating the Using Pronouns Collective Nouns and Other Pronouns: Possessive and Special Subjects ..187. Pronouns: Reflexive and Indefinite Pronouns as Subjects ..189. Pronouns: Agreement with Compound Unit 4 Review ..115 Unit 9 Review ..193. Cumulative Review: Units 1 4 ..116 Cumulative Review: Units 1 9 ..194. Unit 5 Adjectives and Adverbs Unit 10 Diagraming Sentences Adjectives ..117 Diagraming Simple Subjects Articles and Proper and Simple Predicates ..197. Table of Contents iii Diagraming the Four Kinds Part 4 Vocabulary and Spelling.

7 285. of Unit 14 Vocabulary and Spelling Diagraming Direct and Indirect Objects Building Vocabulary: Learning and Predicate Words ..201 from Diagraming Adjectives and Adverbs ..203 Building Vocabulary: Word Diagraming Prepositional Building Vocabulary: Prefixes Diagraming Compound Sentence and Diagraming Compound Sentences ..209 Synonyms and Diagraming Complex Sentences with Homonyms ..295. Adjective and Adverb Basic Spelling Rules I ..297. Unit 10 Review ..213 Basic Spelling Rules II ..299. Cumulative Review: Units 1 10.

8 214 Review: Building Vocabulary ..301. Review: Basic Spelling Rules ..303. Part 2 Usage Glossary ..217. Unit 11 Usage Glossary Part 5 Usage: accept to a lot ..219 Unit 15 Composition Usage: beside to chose ..221 The Writing Process: Usage: in to teach ..223 The Writing Process: Usage: leave to The Writing Process: Usage: than to whose ..227 The Writing Process: Editing ..317. Unit 11 Review ..229 The Writing Process: Cumulative Review: Units 1 11 ..230 Outlining ..321. Writing Effective Part 3 Mechanics.

9 233 Building Unit 12 Capitalization Paragraph Ordering ..331. Capitalization of Sentences, Personal Letters: Formal ..335. Quotations, and Letter Parts ..235 Personal Letters: Capitalization of Names and Business Letters: Letters of Request Titles of Persons ..237 or Capitalization of Names of Places ..241 Business Letters: Stating Capitalization of Other Proper Nouns Your Opinion ..341. and Unit 12 Review ..249 Index ..343. Cumulative Review: Units 1 12 ..250. Unit 13 Punctuation TAE Tests Using the Period and Unit 1: Subjects, Predicates, and Other End Marks.

10 253 Unit 2: Nouns ..351. Using Commas to Signal Pause Unit 3: Copyright by GLENCOE /McGraw-Hill or Separation ..255 Unit 4: Pronouns ..359. Using Commas in Clauses and Unit 5: Adjectives and Compound Sentences ..257 Unit 6: Prepositions, Conjunctions, Using Commas with Titles, Addresses, and Interjections ..363. and Dates ..259 Unit 7: Clauses and Complex Sentences ..367. Using Commas with Direct Quotes, in Unit 8: Letters, and for Clarity ..261 Unit 9: Subject-Verb Agreement ..371. Commas in Unit 10: Diagraming Using Semicolons and Colons.