Grammar Practice BLM with Answer Key - Weebly

1 Grammar and CompositionGrammar PracticeGrade 8 Copyright The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Permission is granted to reproduce material contained herein on the condition that such material bereproduced only for classroom use; and be provided to students, teachers, and familieswithout charge; and be used solely in conjunction with Writer s other repro-duction, for use or sale, is prohibited without written permission of the in the United States of all inquiries to:Glencoe/McGraw-Hill8787 Orion PlaceColumbus, Ohio 43240 ISBN 0-07-823347-X1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 902404 03 02 01 00iiGlencoe/McGraw-HillSubjects, predicates , and 2 Sentences and Sentence Fragments.

2 5 Subjects and predicates .. and Compound Sentences .. 2, 5 Kinds of Nouns .. 4 Distinguishing Plurals, Possessives, and Contractions .. 6Ve r b and Intransitive Verbs.. with Indirect Objects.. Verbs and Predicate Words .. and Past Tenses .. Verbs and Helping Verbs .. Forms .. Tenses .. Future Time .. and Passive Voice .. 12 Irregular Verbs .. Pronouns .. and Antecedents .. 5 Possessive and Indefinite Pronouns .. and Intensive Pronouns .. and Demonstrative Pronouns .. 21 Adjectives and 2 Adjectives, Articles, and Proper Adjectives .. 4 Comparative, Superlative, and Demonstrative Adjectives .. and Superlative Adverbs.

3 Double Negatives .. 26 Prepositions, Conjunctions, and and Prepositional Phrases .. as Objects of Prepositions .. Phrases as Adjectives and Adverbs .. 5 Conjunctions and Conjunctive Adverbs.. All the Parts of Speech.. 31 Unit 13 Unit 12 Unit 11 Unit 10 Unit 9 Unit 8iiiContentsClauses and Complex 2 Sentences, Clauses, and Complex Sentences.. 4 Adjective Clauses .. Clauses .. Clauses .. and Participial Phrases .. and Gerund Phrases .. and Infinitive Phrases .. 38 Subject-Verb , 5 Making Subjects and Verbs Agree .. with Locating the Subject .. 4 Special Subjects .. 41 Glossary of Special Usage 3 Using Troublesome Words.

4 2 Capitalization I .. 4 Capitalization II .. the Period and Other End Marks .. Commas I .. Commas II .. Commas III .. Semicolons and Colons .. Quotation Marks and Italics.. 8 Using Apostrophes, Hyphens, Dashes, and Parentheses.. 10 Using Abbreviations and Writing Numbers .. 52 Answers ..53 Unit 20 Unit 19 Unit 17 Unit 16 Unit 15 Unit 14 ContentsivWriter s Choice: Grammar Practice ,Grade 8, Unit .. A. Identifying Types of SentencesDecide whether each item is a sentence or a sentence fragment. If it is a sentence, writewhether it is declarative, interrogative, exclamatory,or imperative,and add the correctend mark. If it is a sentence fragment, write will be there by 8:15 in the morning a seat for me be on time !

5 I stubbed my toe do you know about that speaker can count on you up your books and go to the exit t recall ever hearing a better speech_____ B. Writing Complete SentencesCorrect the following fragments by writing them as complete least once a will school on the one in the room_____Grammar 2 Sentences and Sentence FragmentsCopyright The McGraw-Hill Companies, sentenceis a group of words that expresses a complete thought. Each sentence has asubject partthat names whom or what the sentence is about and a predicate partthattells what the subject does or has. The predicate may also tell what the subject is or is are four types of sentences: declarative, interrogative, exclamatory,and sentence fragmentis a group of words that lacks either a subject, a predicate, or both.

6 A fragment does not express a complete Information2Wr ite r s Choice: Grammar Practice ,Grade 8, Unit 8 A. Identifying Subjects and PredicatesWrite whether each sentence has a simple subject or a compound subject and a simple predicate or a compound underline each simple subject and simple you read and understand the homework assignment? and Elizabeth will join us at the play. know that lovely melody. and I would rather eat apples and bananas. boys jumped through hoops for us. and cowgirls both rope steers. huffed and puffed loudly. you please rub my back? author wrote and illustrated many books. learned about physics and B.

7 Making Subjects and Verbs AgreeUnderline the correct form of the verb in and Tanya (was, were) very and friends sometimes (shout, shouts) a lot at basketball (swell, swells) up in his chest and nearly (make, makes) him (write, writes) to her family each and carrots (is, are) my favorite .. 5 Subjects and PredicatesCopyright The McGraw-Hill Companies, complete subjectincludes all the words in the subject. The main word or group ofwords in the complete subject is called the simple subject. A compound subjecthas two or more simple subjectswith the same complete predicateincludes all the words in the predicate. The main word or group ofwords in the complete predicate is called the simple compound predicatehas two or more simple predicates with the same InformationWr ite r s Choice: Grammar Practice ,Grade 8, Unit.

8 A. Identifying Simple and Compound SentencesWrite whether each sentence is simple or and elephants are my favorite zoo animals live in cages, but these animals roam inside fenced areas. have such bright eyes; they look so intelligent! eyes are not so bright, but their eyelashes are long. you ever noticed the eye colors of elephants and tigers? animals enjoy being observed, but other animals seem uncomfortable. you feel afraid, or do you find the experience enjoyable? zoo animals look happy; others seem depressed. elephants and tigers sometimes pace. they are hungry or need some B. Rewriting Run-on SentencesRewrite the following run-on sentences told her yes then she ran up and put my name on the performance was fantastic, no one was ate breakfast, she drank can t possibly eat another thing okay, give me a and Compound SentencesCopyright The McGraw-Hill Companies, simple sentencehas one complete subject and one complete predicate.

9 It may have a compound subject, a compound predicate, or compound sentencecontains two or more simple sentences joined by a comma and a coordinating conjunction or by a run-on sentenceis two or more sentences incorrectly written as one sentence. Correct a run-on sentence by rewriting it as two separate sentences or by joining the sentences with a semicolon or with a conjunction preceded by a Information4Wr ite r s Choice: Grammar Practice ,Grade 8, Unit 9 A. Identifying Kinds of NounsList the nouns in each sentence. Then write whether each noun is proper, concrete,abstract,or Oki see Maria s new dog? think it s a golden retriever, but I m not sure.

10 Truth is, she named him Goldy after her Aunt Golda! Tuesday, she takes him to obedience B. Making Compound Nouns PluralFollow the rules you learned in your textbook to write a sentence using the correct plural form of each of the following compound nouns. Make sure the verb you useagrees with the noun. Use additional paper if (lawnmower)_____2.(son-in-law)_____ C. Using Collective NounsFill in the blanks with an appropriate collective entire _____ was at performers took a bow when the _____ .. 2, 5 Kinds of NounsCopyright The McGraw-Hill Companies, nounis a word that names a person,place, thing, or proper nounnames a specificperson,place, thing, or common nounnames anyperson, place,thing, or nounsname things you can seeor nounsname ideas, qualities, or nounsare made up of two ormore words.