Grammar and Language Workbook - Weebly

1 GLENCOELANGUAGEARTSG rammar and LanguageWorkbookGRADE6 Copyright by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United StatesCopyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or means, or stored ina database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the all inquiries to:Glencoe/McGraw-Hill8787 Orion PlaceColumbus, Ohio 43240-4027 ISBN 0-07-820539-5 Printed in the United States of America2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 009 03 02 01 00 Glencoe/McGraw-HillHandbook of Definitions and Rules.

2 1 Troubleshooter ..23 part 1 Grammar ..45 Unit 1 Subjects, Predicates, and of Sentences: Declarative and Interrogative .. of Sentences: Exclamatory and Imperative .. and Predicates: Simple and Complete .. and Predicates: Compound .. and Compound Sentences .. Fragments .. 1 Review ..61 Cumulative Review ..62 Unit 2 : Proper and Common .. : Singular and Plural .. : Collective .. : Possessives ..69 Unit 2 Review ..71 Cumulative Review: Units 1 3 Verbs and Direct Objects .. Verbs and Indirect Objects .. and Intransitive Verbs .. Verbs and Predicate Words.

3 Tenses: Present, Past, and Future .. Verbs: Principal Parts .. Forms: Present Progressive and Past Tenses: Present and Past .. Verbs Verbs II .. Verbs III .. Practice with Verb Forms ..99 Unit 3 Review ..101 Cumulative Review: Units 1 3 ..102 Unit 4 Pronouns .. Pronouns and Antecedents .. Pronouns .. Pronouns ..113 Unit 4 Review ..115 Cumulative Review: Units 1-4 ..116 Unit 5 Adjectives and Proper Adjectives .. and That Adjectives That Compare ..125 Unit 5 Review ..127 Cumulative Review: Units 1 6 Modifying Verbs .. Modifying Adjectives and Adverbs.

4 That Compare .. Comparative Adjectives and Adverbs Apart I .. Adjectives and Adverbs Apart Double Negatives ..143 Unit 6 Review ..145 Cumulative Review: Units 1 6 ..146 Unit 7 Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Phrases .. After Phrases as Adjectives and Adverbs .. Prepositions and Adverbs Apart .. 7 Review ..163 Cumulative Review: Units 1 8 Subject-Verb Subjects and Verbs Agree .. Pronouns and Verb the with Compound 8 Review ..175 Cumulative Review: Units 1 8 ..176 Unit 9 Diagraming Simple Subjects and Simple Predicates .. the Four Kinds of Direct and Indirect Objects and Predicate Words.

5 Adjectives and Adverbs .. Prepositional Phrases .. Compound Sentence Parts ..189 Unit 9 Review ..191 Cumulative Review: Units 1 9 ..192 Table of ContentsiiiCopyright by Glencoe/McGraw-HillContentsivGrammar and Language Workbook , Grade 6 Copyright by Glencoe/McGraw-HillPart 2 Usage ..195 Unit 10 Usage Usage: acceptto a Usage: beside to Usage: in to Usage: leave to Usage: than to 10 Review ..207 Cumulative Review: Units 1 10 ..208 part 3 Mechanics ..211 Unit 11 Capitalizing Sentences, Quotations, and Salutations I.

6 Capitalizing Sentences, Quotations, and Salutations II .. Capitalizing Names and Titles of Persons I .. Capitalizing Names and Titles of Persons Capitalizing Names of Places I .. Capitalizing Names of Places II .. Capitalizing Other Proper Nouns and Adjectives Capitalizing Other Proper Nouns and Adjectives II ..227 Unit 11 Review ..229 Cumulative Review: Units 1 11 ..230 Unit 12 Using the Period and Other End Marks .. Using Commas I .. Using Commas II .. Using Commas III .. Using Commas Commas in Semicolons and Quotation Quotation Marks and Italics.

7 Apostrophes .. Abbreviations I .. Abbreviations Writing Numbers Writing Numbers II ..261 Unit 12 Review ..263 Cumulative Review: Units 1 12 ..264 part 4 Vocabulary and Spelling ..267 Unit 13 Vocabulary and Building Vocabulary: Learning from Building Vocabulary: Prefixes .. Building Vocabulary: Suffixes .. Synonyms and Homonyms .. Basic Spelling Rules I .. Basic Spelling Rules II .. Basic Spelling Rules III .. Often Misspelled Words .. Easily Confused Words .. Review: Building Vocabulary.

8 Review: Basic Spelling Rules ..291 Unit 13 Review ..293 Cumulative Review: Units 1 13 ..294 part 5 14 The Writing Process: Prewriting I .. The Writing Process: Prewriting II .. The Writing Process: Drafting I .. The Writing Process: Drafting II .. The Writing Process: Revising The Writing Process: Revising II .. The Writing Process: Editing .. The Writing Process: Outlining .. Writing Effective Sentences Writing Effective Sentences II .. Writing Effective Sentences III .. Building Paragraphs Building Paragraphs II .. Building Paragraphs III.

9 Paragraph Ordering .. Personal Letters Personal Letters Personal Letters III .. Business Letters: Letters of Request or Business Letters: Letters of Opinion ..339 Index ..341 TAE TestsUnit 1: Subjects, Predicates, and 2: Nouns ..351 Unit 3: 4: Pronouns ..357 Unit 5: Adjectives ..359 Unit 6: Adverbs ..361 Unit 7: Prepositions, Conjunctions, 8: Subject-Verb Agreement ..369 Unit 9: Diagraming 10: Usage Glossary ..373 Unit 11: Capitalization ..375 Unit 12: Punctuation ..377 Unit 13: Vocabulary and Spelling ..381 Unit 14: Composition.

10 383 Answer Key to Testing Program ..387 Handbook1 Handbook ofDefinitionsand RulesHandbook3 Copyright by Glencoe/McGraw-HillHandbookSUBJECTS AND simple subjectis the key noun or pronoun that tells what the sentence is about. Acompound subjectis made up of two or more simple subjects that are joined by aconjunction and have the same lantern and bugs fly simple predicateis the verb or verb phrase that expresses the essential thoughtabout the subject of the sentence. A compound predicateis made up of two or moreverbs or verb phrases that are joined by a conjunction and have the same jogged down the stretched and exercised for an complete subjectconsists of the simple subject and all the words that modify curly hairframed the child s soft glow of sunset made her complete predicateconsists of the simple predicate and all the words that modifyit or complete its ate a delicious muffin for apple muffin also contained the subject comes before the predicate in a sentence.