Building with Diligence

Lessons

• 1 Getting Acquainted With Your English Book
• 2 Getting Organized
• 3 Learning About Sentences
• 4 Finding the Simple Predicate
• 5 Verb Phrases
• 7 Finding the Simple Subject
• 8 Pronouns and Noun Phrases
• 9 Diagramming Sentence Skeletons
• 10 Compound Subjects and Predicates
• 11 Diagramming Compound Subjects and Predicates
• 12 The Paragraph
• 14 Chapter 1 Review
• 15 Sentence Fragments and Run-on Sentences
• 16 Statements: Sentences that give information
• 17 Diagramming statements
• 18 Questions: Sentences that ask information
• 19 Diagramming Questions
• 20 Combining Sentences
• 21 Commands: Sentences that tell you to do something
• 22 Diagramming Commands
• 23 Exclamations: Sentences the show strong feelings
• 24 Review of Sentences
• 26 Chapter 2 Review
• 27 What is a noun?
• 28 Common Nouns and Proper Nouns
• 29 Compound Nouns and Nouns Phrases
• 31 Singular Nouns and Plural Nouns
• 32 More Plural Nouns
• 33 Irregular Plural Nouns
• 36 Chapter 3 Review
• 37 Action Verbs
• 38 The Very Be
• 39 Helping Verbs and Verb Phrases
• 41 Verbs Show Tense
• 42 Agreement of Subjects and Verbs
• 43 Past Forms of Regular Verbs
• 45 Past Forms of Irregular Verbs
• 46 More About Irregular Verbs
• 47 Past Forms that Need Helpers
• 49 Chapter 4 Review
• 50 Action Verbs with Direct Objects
• 51 Actions Verbs Without Direct Objects
• 52 Nouns After the Verb Be
• 53 Using Raise and Rise
• 54 Using Lay and Lie
• 55 Taking Notes for a Report
• 56 Using Set and Sit
• 57 Using Let and Leave
• 58 Contractions
• 59 Using Don't and Doesn't
• 60 Using Can, May, Teach, and Learn
• 63 Chapter 5 Review
• 64 Pronouns Stand for Nouns
• 65 Subject Pronouns
• 66 Object Pronouns
• 67 Pronouns in a Predicate
• 69 Using the Correct Pronoun
• 70 Possessive Pronouns
• 71 Plural Pronouns
• 72 Using Pronouns Correctly
• 73 This, That, These, and Those
• 76 Chapter 6 Review
• 77 Adjectives
• 78 Possessive Nouns Used as Adjectives
• 79 Possessive Pronouns Used as Adjectives
• 81 Adjectives that Compare
• 82 Using Adjectives That Compare
• 83 Irregular Adjectives That Compare
• 86 Chapter 7 Review
• 87 Adverbs
• 88 Adverbs in a Sentence
• 90 Adverbs That Compare
• 91 Using Good and Well
• 92 Negative Words
• 95 Chapter 8 Review
• 96 End Punctuation
• 97 Abbreviations
• 99 Commas
• 100 Commas in Addresses and Dates
• 102 Direct and Indirect Quotations
• 103 Direct Quotations: Quotation Last
• 104 Direct Quotations: Quotation First
• 105 Conversation in Stories
• 107 Chapter 9 Review
• 108 Prepositions
• 109 Prepositional Phrase Used as Adjectives
• 110 Prepositional Phrases Used as Adverbs
• 112 Diagramming Prepositional Phrases
• 113 Prepositions and Adverbs
• 114 Conjunctions
• 115 Parts of Speech Review
• 117 Chapter 10 Review
• 118 Capitalization
• 119 Capitalization Names and Titles
• 122 Using the Dictionary
• 123 Spellings and Meanings in the Dictionary
• 124 Synonyms, Antonyms, and Homonyms
• 125 Being Clear and Specific
• 126 Bible Poetry
• 127 Chapter 11 Review