Language Conventions Practice Language Conventions Practice Table of Contents Sentences .........................................................................................................................1 Declarative and Interrogative Sentences ........................................................................2 Imperative and Exclamatory Sentences ..........................................................................3 Four Kinds of Sentences A ..............................................................................................4 Four Kinds of Sentences B ..............................................................................................5 Subjects and Predicates ...................................................................................................6 Verbs, Objects, and Subject Complements .....................................................................7 Common and Proper Nouns A .......................................................................................8 Common and Proper Nouns B .......................................................................................9 Concrete and Abstract Nouns .......................................................................................10 Collective Nouns A ........................................................................................................ 11 Collective Nouns B ........................................................................................................13 Regular Plural Nouns .................................................................................................... 14 Irregular Plural Nouns .................................................................................................15 Regular and Irregular Plural Nouns ............................................................................ 16 Possessive Nouns ........................................................................................................... 17 Singular and Plural Pronouns ...................................................................................... 18 Subject and Object Pronouns........................................................................................19 Possessive Pronouns ......................................................................................................20 Indefinite and Reflexive Pronouns A............................................................................21 Indefinite and Reflexive Pronouns B............................................................................22 Using Who and Whom .................................................................................................23 This, That, These, Those ................................................................................................24 Using Relative Pronouns ...............................................................................................25 Interrogative Pronouns .................................................................................................26 Reciprocal Pronouns A .................................................................................................27 Reciprocal Pronouns B ..................................................................................................29 Action and Linking Verbs A ......................................................................................... 31 Action and Linking Verbs B..........................................................................................32 Irregular Verbs ..............................................................................................................33 Contractions and Negatives ..........................................................................................34 Helping Verbs A ............................................................................................................35 Helping Verbs B .............................................................................................................37 Past, Present, and Future Tenses 1 ...............................................................................39 Past, Present, and Future Tenses 2 ...............................................................................40 Principal Parts of Regular Verbs ..................................................................................41 Principal Parts of Irregular Verbs ................................................................................42 Recognizing the Progressive Tense of Verbs ................................................................43 Using the Progressive Tense of Verbs ...........................................................................44 Recognizing the Perfect Tense of Verbs ........................................................................45 Using the Perfect Tense of Verbs ...................................................................................47 Identifying the Basic Forms of the Six Tenses ..............................................................50 Using Verb Tense to Show Sequence .............................................................................51 Using Verb Tense to Show Conditions ..........................................................................54 Identifying the Active and Passive Voice A ..................................................................56 Identifying the Active and Passive Voice B ..................................................................57 Language Conventions Practice Table of Contents Using Active and Passive Voice .....................................................................................58 Using the Conditional Mood ........................................................................................59 Auxiliary Verbs that Express the Subjunctive Mood ...................................................61 Using the Subjunctive Mood .........................................................................................62 Using Voice and Mood to Achieve Effects ....................................................................63 Using Verbals and Verbal Phrases ................................................................................65 Verbal Phrases ...............................................................................................................66 Subject Verb Agreement A ............................................................................................67 Subject Verb Agreement B ............................................................................................68 Subject Verb Agreement C ............................................................................................69 Making Verbs Agree with Singular and Plural Subjects..............................................70 Making Verbs Agree with Collective Nouns ................................................................71 Making Verbs Agree with Compound Subjects ...........................................................72 Verb Agreement with Indefinite Pronouns ..................................................................73 Making Verbs Agree with Abstract Nouns................................................................... 74 Pronouns and Antecedents ...........................................................................................76 Making Personal Pronouns and Antecedents Agree ...................................................77 Making Personal Pronouns and Indefinite Pronouns Agree ......................................78 Adjectives and Articles A ..............................................................................................79 Adjectives and Articles B ..............................................................................................80 Adjectives and Articles C ..............................................................................................81 Demonstrative Adjectives .............................................................................................82 Comparative and Superlative Adjectives ......................................................................83 Adjective Order A ..........................................................................................................84 Adjective Order B ..........................................................................................................86 Adjectival Clauses .........................................................................................................88 Adverbs A ......................................................................................................................89 Adverbs B .......................................................................................................................90 Adverb or Adjective? A ..................................................................................................91 Adverb or Adjective? B ..................................................................................................93 Relative Adverbs ............................................................................................................94 Adverbial Clauses ..........................................................................................................96 Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases A ...................................................................97 Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases B....................................................................98