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1 Grammar and CompositionGrammar PracticeWorkbookGrade 9 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 reproduction, 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 0-07-823355-01 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 907904 03 02 01 00iiGlencoe/McGraw-HillParts of .. Verbs.. Verbs .. 8 Parts of the Subjects and Compound Predicates .. Objects .. Complements .. Complements.

2 Phrases .. and Appositive Phrases .. and Participial Phrases .. and Gerund Phrases .. and Infinitive Phrases .. 17 Clauses and Sentence and Compound Sentences .. Clauses .. Clauses .. Clauses .. Kinds of Sentences .. Fragments.. Sentences .. 24Ve r b Te n s e s a n d Vo i c and Irregular Verbs .. Tenses .. of Verbs .. 27 Subject-Verb with Linking Verbs .. 5 Agreement with Special and Compound Subjects .. 29 Unit 16 Unit 15 Unit 13 Unit 12 Unit 11 Unit 10iiiContentsUsing Pronouns of Personal Pronouns .. with and as Appositives .. After Thanand As.. Agreement .. Pronoun Reference .. 34 Using Modifiers Comparisons .. Comparisons .. and Dangling Modifiers.. of Sentences .. 3 Capitalization of Proper Nouns and Adjectives.

3 39 Punctuation, Abbreviations, and 3 End Punctuation .. Colon .. Semicolon.. and Compound Sentences.. and Coordinate Adjectives.. with Parenthetical Expressions and Conjunctive Adverbs .. with Direct Address and Tag Questions .. of Commas .. 8 The Dash and Parentheses .. Marks.. (Underlining) .. Apostrophe.. 13 The Hyphen and Abbreviations .. 52 Unit 21 Unit 20 Unit 18 Unit 17 ContentsivWr ite r s Choice: Grammar Pract ice Wor kbook,Grade 9, Unit .. !A. Categorizing NounsPlace each of the nouns listed below in the appropriate column. Many nouns may be listed inmore than one PricePythagorasCaracashesitationelationB uddhismConcreteAbstractProperCollective_ ____!B. Identifying NounsUnderline all nouns in the following sentences.

4 Write whether each noun is concrete (C),abstract (A),proper (P),or collective (CL). audience showed its approval with a standing is a holy city for all ideals of the team were very urban designs of architect I. M. Pei have won him international The McGraw-Hill Companies, people, places, things, or identify objects that are tangibleor can be identified through the senses. hoofyawnfogmelodiesAbstractnouns name ideas, qualities, or name particular people, places,things, or ideas. Proper nouns are always LomanIslamZaireMachu PicchuCollectivenouns name groups. The singularform is sometimes considered singular andsometimes considered (a) pride (of lions)Key InformationcrewLeontyne PriceclanPythagorasorchestraaromaCaracas theoryhesitationdemocracyelationBuddhism Leontyne PricePythagorasCaracasBuddhismcrewclanor chestraC, CLACC, PCC,PAC,CLCCC,PA2Wr ite r s Choice: Grammar Practice Workbook ,Grade 9, Unit 10!

5 A. Identifying PronounsUnderline all interrogative and relative pronouns in the following sentences. Write whethereach is interrogative (I)or relative (R). was the woman that I saw you with at the movies? singer for whom the rock opera was written married the u s h o u l d d o w h a t e v e r y o u t h i n k i s b e s t . is the name of the song that he wrote?!B. Using Relative PronounsCombine the following sentences, changing one sentence of each pair to a subordinate each subordinate clause with a relative :Some people are glad when winter is over. They do not like cold who do not like cold weather are glad when winter is McLeod Bethune is a famous black educator. She lived from 1875 to the early part of the twentieth century, Bethune founded a school for girls.

6 The schooleventually merged with a boys school and became Bethune-Cookman worked closely with Franklin D. Roosevelt. She served as the Special Advisor onMinority was an observer for the State Department at the UN Conference in had spent many years in public .. The McGraw-Hill Companies, take the place of nouns, groupsof words acting as nouns, or other pronounsare used to the best athlete on the team?Whateverdo you mean?Relative pronounsintroduce , whois from Paris, drives a house thatwe spoke about has been the trophy to whomeveryou InformationIRRRIRMary ..educator who lived from 1875 to the early .. for girls, which eventually merged..Bethune, who served as the Special Advisor on Minority Affairs, , who had spent ..service,was an ite r s Choice: Grammar Practice Workbook ,Grade 9, Unit.

7 !A. Identifying Transitive and Intransitive VerbsThe following excerpt is from The Waves,a novel by British writer Virginia Woolf. Writewhether each of the boldface action verbs in the excerpt is transitive (T)or intransitive (I).Ifthe verb is transitive, underline the word or words following it that answer the question what?or whom?!B. Using Transitive and Intransitive VerbsWr i t e f ive s e n t e n ce s a b o u t yo u r s e l f . Id e n t i f y e a c h a c t i o n ve r b yo u u s e a s t r a n s i t ive (T) or intransitive (I). VerbsCopyright The McGraw-Hill Companies, verbsdescribe physical or mental a n s i t i v e v e r b sare action verbs followed bywords that answer what?orwhom?Jack madehis own wedding cake.

8 [Thewords wedding cakefollow the transitiveverb madeand answer the question made what?]Intransitive verbsare also action verbs, butthey are not followed by words that answerwhat?or whom?Condors livein the Andes. [The intransitiveverb liveis followed by the words in theAndes, which tell where, not whatorwhom.]Key InformationThe light struckupon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. Onebird chirpedhigh up; there was a pause; another chirped lower down. The sun sharpenedthewalls of the house, and restedlike the tip of a fan upon a white blind and madea blue fingerprint ofshadow under the leaf by the bedroom window. The blind stirredslightly, but all within was dimand unsubstantial. The birds sangtheir blank melody outside.

9 The waves brokeand spreadtheir waters swiftly over the shore. One after another they massedthemselves and fell;the spray tosseditself back with the energy of their Woolf,The WavesLiterature ModelIIITTITTTTTIS entences will ite r s Choice: Grammar Practice Workbook ,Grade 9, Unit 10!A. Identifying Linking VerbsUnderline all linking verbs in the sentences said that she feels confident about the success of the food often tastes exotic to those who have never tried is the year Maria was grow well if the soil is sandy and the drainage is President looked tired and world s tallest trees are California the actors were proud of their food smelled delicious from two blocks am tired because I did not sleep well last stubborn person, he remains certain that he is right.

10 !B. Using Linking VerbsWrite five sentences about your family and friends, using at least one linking verb in each sentence. Underline each linking .. VerbsCopyright The McGraw-Hill Companies, verbsconnect the subject of a sentencewith words or groups of words that identify ordescribe forms of the verb becan function as m o r r o w will bebright and Spanish word for are some other common linking InformationSentences will ite r s Choice: Grammar Practice Workbook ,Grade 9, Unit .. !A. Identifying AdjectivesUnderline all of the adjectives, except articles, in the following the foot of a tilted red rock a porcupine broke open a tinyshelter ofsticks and some meager round-eared creature, all eyes and bony limbs, fled across the porcupine, ignoring it, was about to devour the suddenly it paused, raisedits head and listened.