Grammar Final Fall Semester Study Guide 2012
Use your notes, past grammar exercises, and definitely your grammar book to help your study.
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Know all of the subject and object pronouns and how to use them. (Who and Whom, too.) Know which are first-person singular, secondperson plural, etc.
Know all of the indefinite pronouns and whether they are singular or plural.
Know all of the comma rules. Remember the most common rules:
a) Use comma and a conjunction between independent clauses to form compound sentences.
b) Use a comma for compound subjects or verbs ONLY when there are three or more.
c) Use a comma in a complex sentence to separate the dependent and independent clause ONLY when the dependent clause comes
first.
Know the difference between action verbs, linking verbs, and helping verbs. Know specifically the linking verbs and helping verbs.
Be able to diagram subjects, action verbs, linking verbs, helping verbs, direct objects, indirect objects, predicate nouns, predicate
adjectives, prepositional phrases.
Know the four questions that an adjective answers and what adjectives modify.
Know the four questions that an adverb answers and what adverbs modify.
Be able to correct errors when using pronouns and commas in sentences.
Be able to correctly diagram and label all of the following sentences:
1.
The students in history asked the teacher too
8.
Ms. Kumin read the class the last chapter of the
many questions.
book.
2.
Justin handed Mrs. Talbot a plate.
9.
The hotels down the street offer their guests free
3.
Dad told Jerry a story about a Paris restaurant.
breakfast.
4.
My mom and dad brought me some candy.
10. I ordered my mother a silver necklace from
5.
All of the students took home good grades.
Nordstrom’s.
6.
My Uncle Randall gave me his old computer.
11. The remaining pieces of the puzzle were soon
7.
The tour guide at the museum gives each visitor
lost.
a map.
12. Many of the candidates have checkered pasts.
13. The hiking boots were dirty.
Grammar Final Fall Semester Study Guide 2012
Use your notes, past grammar exercises, and definitely your grammar book to help your study.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Know all of the subject and object pronouns and how to use them. (Who and Whom, too.) Know which are first-person singular, secondperson plural, etc.
Know all of the indefinite pronouns and whether they are singular or plural.
Know all of the comma rules. Remember the most common rules:
a) Use comma and a conjunction between independent clauses to form compound sentences.
b) Use a comma for compound subjects or verbs ONLY when there are three or more.
c) Use a comma in a complex sentence to separate the dependent and independent clause ONLY when the dependent clause comes first.
Know the difference between action verbs, linking verbs, and helping verbs. Know specifically the linking verbs and helping verbs.
Be able to diagram subjects, action verbs, linking verbs, helping verbs, direct objects, indirect objects, predicate nouns, predicate
adjectives, prepositional phrases.
Know the four questions that an adjective answers and what adjectives modify.
Know the four questions that an adverb answers and what adverbs modify.
Be able to correct errors when using pronouns and commas in sentences.
Be able to correctly diagram and label all of the following sentences:
1.
The students in history asked the teacher too many
8.
Ms. Kumin read the class the last chapter of the
questions.
book.
2.
Justin handed Mrs. Talbot a plate.
9.
The hotels down the street offer their guests free
3.
Dad told Jerry a story about a Paris restaurant.
breakfast.
4.
My mom and dad brought me some candy.
10. I ordered my mother a silver necklace from
5.
All of the students took home good grades.
Nordstrom’s.
6.
My Uncle Randall gave me his old computer.
11. The remaining pieces of the puzzle were soon lost.
7.
The tour guide at the museum gives each visitor a
12. Many of the candidates have checkered pasts.
map.
13. The hiking boots were dirty.