LANGUAGE
Writing and Grammar 7
Bob Jones University Press
• Sentences – four types, subjects/predicates, inverted order, fragments
• Writing a book report
• Nouns – plurals, possessives, common/proper, count/noncount, compound nouns
• Writing an observation
• Verbs – transitive/intransitive, linking, predicate nouns and adjectives, helping verbs (auxiliaries), principal parts, tenses
• Writing a persuading talk for an audience
• Pronouns – pronouns/antecedents, personal, demonstrative, interrogative, reflexive/intensive, and indefinite
• Writing a letter to a pen pal
• Adjectives – comparing with adjectives, articles, possessives, proper adjectives
• Writing an advertisement
• Adverbs – identifying adverbs, positions, comparing, and adverbs
• Writing a family tradition
• Clause structure – phrases, clauses, simple, compound, and complex sentences
• Writing a one-act drama
• Subject-verb agreement – with personal pronouns, with indefinite pronouns
• Writing – proof reading a document
• Pronoun usage – subjective/objective pronouns, problem pronouns
• Writing – giving directions
• Using adjectives and adverbs correctly – double negatives, adjectives or adverb?, and comparisons
• Writing – explaining the rules of a game
• Troublesome words
• Capitalization
• Punctuation
• Writing a letter to the Editor
*Every unit contains extensive sentence diagramming