Section 1 1. Objective Case Pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2. Capitalize Proper Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3. Proper Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4. Present Participles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 5. Quiz 1 and Extra Activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Section 2 6. Parts of Speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 7. Capitalization in Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 8. Subject or Object of a Preposition? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 9. Double Negatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 10. Quiz 2 and Extra Activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Section 3 11. The Dictionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 12. Principal Parts of Irregular Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 13. Proper Grammar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 14. Self Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 15. Creative Writing, Day 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 16. Creative Writing, Day 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 17. LightUnit Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Cursive Alphabet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Spelling Word Bookmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

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A prepositional phrase may separate the subject and the verb of a sentence . When looking for the subject of a sentence, be careful not to choose the object of a prepo-sition . It is helpful to put prepositional phrases in parentheses before looking for the verb and subject .

All of the boys are sitting in the third row.

What is the subject? Who or what “are sitting”?

It may seem that boys is the subject: boys are sitting . Go back and put parentheses around the prepositional phrases .

All (of the boys) are sitting (in the third row).

Now you can easily see that boys is the object of a preposition . The subject is All (All are sitting) .

Forming the habit of putting parentheses around prepositional phrases will help you identifiy prepositional phrases automatically .

Subject or Object of a Preposition?

A Put parentheses around each prepositional phrase. Underline each verb twice and each subject once.

1. The lady with the white poodle lives in the yellow house.

2. Alison sat on the porch swing.

3. One of my classmates is from Romania.

4. A flock of pigeons rested on the silos.

5. None of our cousins will come to the reunion.

6. (The cloud of grasshoppers settled onto the field.

7. The boys from the gray house played kickball with us.

8. In morning devotions, our family prayed for the missionaries.

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ooking BackB Circle each letter that should be capitalized.

9. “away in a manger” is my favorite christmas song.

10. brother howard led the song “ye are the light of the world.”

C Write interrogative sentences. Use the verb phrases in parentheses below. Underline each verb twice in your sentences.

11. (will help)

12. (can jump)

D Circle each adverb.

13. A large crowd greeted Jesus joyfully.

14. The small child sobbed as his new sailboat floated away.

15. Mother really enjoys Chinese food.

E Write prep or adv to tell the function of each underlined word.

16. Once Christmas is past, I feel sad.

17. Drive past the water tower and turn right.

F Underline the correct pronoun. Write nom or obj above it to tell its case.

18. Her, She and Julia enjoy music.

19. He, Him will give we, us a book report tomorrow.

20. Joshua and I, me helped she, her rake the lawn.

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G Label the part of speech for each word.

21. Duane unfortunately dropped his textbook into the mud.

H Write S for sentence, F for fragment, or RO for run-on sentence.

22. In the pineapple patch.

23. We tried to run through the woods the brush was thick so we had to crawl.

24. Last Friday, we saw a small patch of trilliums beside the trail to the pond.

I Write the correct answer in each blank.

25. modify and answer the questions how, when, or where.

26. The negatives never, not, and n’t are always .

J Underline each pronoun. Draw an arrow from each pronoun to its antecedent. Write nom for nominative case and obj for objective case.

27. Rick tiptoed down the hall. He did not want to wake Jameson up.

28. Justin and Joshua are tired. Give them a break from picking beans.

29. Olen said, “The poetry assignment is giving me trouble.”

K Write a sentence using a homonym of each underlined word.

30. Mr. Shifflett sold his old iron stove to Dad.

31. Mom told Beverly to watch the pressure canner closely.

32. Death Valley National Park is one of the hottest places in the U.S.

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L Label each indirect object io. Diagram each sentence.

33. Jerry gave Willie a backpack for Christmas.

34. We shouldn’t hurt people.

35. Aunt Nancy made me a strawberry milkshake.

M Complete this list of prepositions you learned in Lesson 1.

36. aboard below

off

towards underneath

Pay close attention to the size of your lowercase letters. Are they all the same height?

N Writeeach letterneatlyfive times inyournotebook.

a b c d e f g

O Write this fact once in your notebook.

Nearly 21,000 office workers use the Empire State Building every day. The building has its own zip code.

Penmanship

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Spelling — Word Usage

P Write the spelling word that is the root of each word.

37. swollen

38. tonsillitis

39. miraculous

40. achy

41. sneezing

42. strengthen

43. recovery

44. touchable

45. systematic

46. exercising

47. complainer

Q Write thesamespellingword inallfivesentences.

48. I felt the of a hand on my shoulder.

49. This soup needs a of salt.

50. Erin reached out to the kitten.

51. Don’t the wet paint.

52. Jim loves peaches but will not pears.

R Write Section 2 spelling words in your notebook.

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