Arlene Miller - Best little grammar workbook ever

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The Best Little Grammar Workbook Ever!

Copyright 2016 by Arlene Miller

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior written permission of the copyright holder.

Cover design by Matt Hinrichs

Interior design and formatting by Marny K. Parkin

Publishers Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Miller, Arlene. The Best Little Grammar Workbook Ever! Use Alone or with Its Companion Book: The Best Little Grammar Book Ever! (Second Edition), 2016

p. cm.
Includes answer appendix

ISBN 978-0-9911674-5-6

1. English languageGrammar. 2. English languageUsage. 3. English languageGrammarSelf-instruction.

Library of Congress: PE 1106.M550
Dewey: 428.2

Published by bigwords101, P.O. Box 4483, Petaluma, CA 94955 USA

website and blog: www.bigwords101.com

Contact Ingram or the publisher for quantity discounts for your company, organization, or educational institution.

To Jake and Shelley
My life, My loves

Contents

Acknowledgments There are always many people to thank when one embarks on a writing career, becomes a publisher, and becomes an entrepreneur, particularly later in life when one is wiser and less daring!I started out six years ago knowing nothing about this business, so I acknowledge everyone who has helped me, educated me, and supported me along my journey. Your names are too many to list.Thank you to my greatest inspirations: my children, Shelley and Jake.Marny Parkin, my designer; Matt Hinrichs, my cover designer; Gil Namur, my website guy; and John DeGaetano, my business advisor and friend, also merit special thanks.Copperfields Books has been so supportive of me and so many other independently published writers. Thank you.And all of you members of Redwood Writers and Bay Area Independent Publishers Association, everyone whom I have heard speak at a meeting, everyone who sends me valuable e-mails, everyone who has written me a blurb or a review, I thank you.

How to Use This Book

This workbook is just what it claims to be: little. I have also written a more comprehensive workbook The Best Grammar Workbook Ever . This book is smaller, but still contains what is most important to know. The table of contents is the same as its companion, The Best Little Grammar Book Ever! Second Edition, so you can use this book alone or along with that one. This workbook contains exercises and tests; the book doesnt, but the book contains more information and examples.

Conversational language and formal written language are two separate things. How formal you want to be in your conversations is up to you. This workbook concentrates on those formal grammar and punctuation standards that have been around a long time. Where things have changed, I will let you know.

In Chapters 1 and 2 you will find the basics of how words turn into sentences. Chapter 3 discusses punctuation and Chapter 4, capitalization. Chapters 5 and 6 go through some of the more confusing aspects of grammar and word usage. Chapters 7 and 8 discuss important grammar issues that will improve your writing, including a few things that have changed or are changing.

This workbook contains many exercises, chapter tests, a pretest, and a final test. There are also Helpful Hints and Notes throughout the book.

All the answers are in the Appendix. There is no index because everything is included in the table of contents, and I wanted to make it easier for you to find the answers at the end of the book. You might want to put a Post-It in the answer section so you can find it more easilyor even gently tear those pages out. This books companion, The Best Little Grammar Book Ever! (Second Edition) contains a complete index.

Arlene Miller, M.A.
The Grammar Diva
www.bigwords101.com

Pretest

Answer these questions before you go through the book.

1. Which of these is a verb?
a. is b. in c. it d. if

2. Every sentence needs a subject and a(n) _________.
a. period b. noun c. verb d. object

3. I gave him the money for the tickets. The subject of this sentence is
a. him b. money c. I d. tickets

4. Simple predicate is the same as
a. subject b. verb c. noun d. sentence

5. Give the dog to me . The direct object of this sentence is
a. dog b. me c. give d. there is none

6. Which sentence has a participle that makes sense?
a. Driving down the road, my dog ran in front of a car.
b. Reading a book by the window, my cat fell asleep.
c. He read from his book wearing glasses.
d. Running down the street, the boy wouldnt come back.

7. An independent clause is the same as a
a. sentence b. fragment c. subject d. prepositional phrase

8. Which of these is a complete and correct sentence?
a. Although I have read that book twice before.
b. Going to the movies and coming home.
c. She ran.
d. She ran, he walked.

9. Which one of these is a run-on sentence?
a. She ran and ran and ran and ran and ran and ran.
b. She ran; he walked.
c. I didnt run, he did.
d. Eat your dinner, and then go to bed.

10. Jimmy and (me, I, myself) went camping last week.

11. (Him and I, He and I, Me and him, He and myself) loved that movie!

12. With (who, whom) are you talking?

13. Anyone on the girls basketball team can buy (her, their) uniform here.

14. Either Raphael or Gemma (is, are) coming with us.

15. Somebody is studying for (his, his or her, their) final exam in the library.

16. Which sentence is written clearly?
a. Abby waved at Carol as she was driving down the street.
b. As she was driving down the street, Carol waved at Abby.
c. As Abby was driving down the street, she waved at Carol.
d. As she was driving down the street, she waved at Bev.

17. Which sentence is written in passive voice?
a. I noticed that my painting was on the wall.
b. Did you see that woman in the green dress?
c. The meeting will be held in Conference Room A.
d. They will be running in a marathon.

18. Which sentence is not correct?
a. I have swam in that lake before.
b. The dress costs fifty dollars.
c. I have drunk all the milk.
d. I saw a rainbow this morning.

19. Which sentence uses the subjunctive mood?
a. I dreamed I was a whale.
b. If I had the money, I would buy it.
c. I wish I were smarter.
d. They were really happy to see me.

20. Add commas in this sentence if any are needed:
The girl who is wearing the sari is my cousin.

21.Which sentence is not punctuated correctly?

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