Widely used as the sole grammar text for many classrooms, here is the ideal tool for teaching English grammar through rule and not exception. Unusually lively sentences comprise the plethora of model and practice material.

The exercises in Words, Phrases, Clauses touch on the use of words in sentences and concentrate on the use dependent clauses and verbal phrases in sentences.  There are exercises on problems related to clauses and phrases, such as the punctuation of clauses and phrases and the case of pronouns.

Table of Contents

WORDS
1. Parts of Speech
2. The Subject
3. The Predicate
4. The Subjective Complement
5. The Direct Object
6. The Indirect Object
7.The Objective Complement
8. The Appositive
9. Modifiers: The Adjective
10. Modifiers: The Adverb
11. Connectors: The Preposition
12. Connectors: The Conjunction
13. The Interjection
14. Test: Parts of Speech Questions
CLAUSES
15. The Noun Clause
16. The Adjective Clause
17. The Adverb Clause
18. Quizzes: Clause Identifications
19. Test: Clause Identifications
20. Test: Clause Constructions
21. Test: Clause Questions
PHRASES
22. The Prepositional Phrase
23. The Gerund and the Gerund Phrase
24. The Participle and the Participial Phrase
25. The Infinitive and the Infinitive Phrase
26. Quizzes: Phrase Identifications
27. Test: Phrase Identifications
28. Test: Phrase Constructions
29. Test: Phrase Questions
30. Final Exercise: The Classical Quiz
PROBLEMS
31. Problems
32. Case of Pronouns
33. Non-Essential (Non-Restrictive) Adjective and Adverb Clauses
34. Introductory Adverb Clauses
35. Introductory Verbals
36. Test: Problems with Verbals and Clauses
Mixed Test: Problems with Verbals and Clauses