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INTRODUCTIONTOTHETEACHER................................................................................................................v

SCOPEANDSEQUENCE................................................................................................... vii

STYLESANDTOPICS........................................................................................................ viii

EDITINGCHECKLIST........................................................................................................... ix

EXERCISES..........................................................................................................................1ANSWERS..........................................................................................................................35GUIDE TO GRAmmAR, USAGE, AND PUNCTUATION

CAPITALIZATION.................................................................................................................59CONTENT............................................................................................................................60GRAMMAR..........................................................................................................................60

PartsofSpeech....................................................................................................................60AdjectivesandAdverbs.................................................................................................. 60

Adjectives................................................................................................................. 60Adverbs.................................................................................................................... 60Articles...................................................................................................................... 60ComparingandContrastingAdjectivesandAdverbs............................................... 61Well/Good................................................................................................................. 61ComparativeandSuperlativeFormsofAdjectivesandAdverbs.............................. 62

Conjunctions.................................................................................................................. 63CoordinatingConjunctions....................................................................................... 63CorrelativeConjunctions.......................................................................................... 63SubordinatingConjunctions...................................................................................... 64

Pronouns........................................................................................................................ 65DemonstrativePronouns.......................................................................................... 65IndefinitePronouns................................................................................................... 65PersonalPronouns................................................................................................... 66ReflexiveandIntensivePronouns............................................................................ 67WhoandWhom........................................................................................................ 67

Verbs.............................................................................................................................. 68VerbParts................................................................................................................. 68VerbPhrase.............................................................................................................. 68VerbTense................................................................................................................ 69Participles................................................................................................................. 70HelpingVerbs........................................................................................................... 71LinkingVerbs............................................................................................................ 71

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Englishconsultant:MarcF.Bertonasco,Ph.D.ProfessorofEnglish

CaliforniaStateUniversitySacramento

PartsofaSentence..............................................................................................................71Clauses.......................................................................................................................... 71

IndependentClause/MainClause............................................................................ 72DependentClause/SubordinateClause................................................................... 72

Phrases.......................................................................................................................... 72Subject........................................................................................................................... 73

USAGE.................................................................................................................................73Agreement...................................................................................................................... 73

Agreement:PronounWithAntecedent..................................................................... 73Agreement:VerbWithSubject................................................................................. 73Agreement:VerbWithCompoundSubject............................................................... 74Agreement:VerbWithIndefinitePronoun................................................................ 75Agreement:AdjectiveWithNoun/Pronoun............................................................... 75

MisplacedModifier......................................................................................................... 76UnnecessaryWords....................................................................................................... 76SpecialWordPairs......................................................................................................... 77

PUNCTUATION....................................................................................................................77Apostrophe..................................................................................................................... 77Colon.............................................................................................................................. 78Comma........................................................................................................................... 78ExclamationPoint.......................................................................................................... 80Hyphen........................................................................................................................... 81Period............................................................................................................................. 81QuestionMark................................................................................................................ 81QuotationMarks............................................................................................................. 81ClausesandPunctuation............................................................................................... 82Run-OnSentences......................................................................................................... 82SentenceFragments...................................................................................................... 83

SPELLING............................................................................................................................83Homophones.................................................................................................................. 83Plurals............................................................................................................................ 83Possessives................................................................................................................... 83SpecialUsageProblems................................................................................................ 83

ReadingDetective®SAMPLEACTIVITY..............................................................................84

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9. A Pirate’s Life for me?“Yo ho, yo ho,” it’s a pirate’s

life for me.” Pirate’s lives were not as glamorous as books have portray them. Pirates made their living attacking merchant ships and inland towns the battles were brutal, and a pirate rarely lived long. Pirates were considered outlaws by all nations. They sailed under their own flag, the skull and crossbow, and lived by their own lose system of rules. These rules specified the share of the treasure each pirate received and the amount of compensation for lost limbs and other injuries. However very few of the pirates actually shared in the lavishly treasure chests of jewels and gold. Most was very poor, and many fared worst than beggars.

Pirates sailed under the skull and crossbones(aflagknownas theJollyRoger)andattackedmerchantshipsand townsalong theNorthandSouth American coasts. In the Caribbean Seaalone,treasuresworthmillionsofdollarslieburiedbeneaththewaves.

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