Grammar for the Upper Grades
Table of Contents
Introduction: Grammar and Childhood Development 1
How to Use the Lessons in this Book 3
Lesson Plan for the Sixth Grade 4
The Musical Word 5
Daily Speech Exercises 6
Everyday Speech: Misused Words and Expressions 8
Proper Usage? 8
How Language Evolves: French Contributions to English 9
Lessons on Misused Words and Expressions 11
Vocabulary through Homonym Riddles 18
A Master List of Common Homonyms 19
Reviewing the Eight Basic Parts of Speech 22
Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adverbs, Adjectives,
Conjunctions, Interjections, and Prepositions
The Sentence Sounds a Melody 24
Independent and Dependent Clauses 28
Conjunction Connectors 30
The Eight Basic Parts of the Sentence 31
Predicate Nominative, Predicate Adjective, Appositive
Subject, Predicate, Direct and Indirect Objects,
Object of the Preposition
Correct Usage: Problematic Pronouns 37
Nominative, Objective and Possessive Cases
Writing: Choosing Vivid Descriptive Verbs 39
Verbs and their Tenses 40
The Continuous Tense 40
The Perfect Tense 41
Irregular Verbs 42
To Boldly Split the Infinitive or Not 43
Active and Passive Voice 45
The Subjunctive Mood 46
Reviewing Punctuation 48
Capitals and Capitols 50
When and Where to Use Commas 51
Colons and Semi-Colons 53
Quotations: Direct and Indirect 55
Writing Skills for Practical Life 56
Correction Symbols for Compositions 56
Taking Notes and Outlining a Composition 57
Business Letters 59
Essays and Reports 60
The Word Association Method 61
Vocabulary Building with Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots 63
Learning to Navigate the Dictionary 63
Master List of Prefixes and Roots 64
Common Suffixes 67
Appendix: The Most Commonly Misspelled Words 68
Bibliography 69