The ability to recognize and correctly use the different parts of speech is key to demonstrating command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. In this book, readers will learn about the function pronouns have in sentences by following the story of Sam and his visiting cousins, Jim and Anna. The story and supplemental activity sidebars help teach concepts such as tense, correct punctuation, relative pronouns, and pronoun-antecedent agreement.
Conjunctions are words like and, but, or, yet, because, since and so. Read the following sentences: 1. God made the country and man made the town. 2. She must cry, or she will die. 3. Two and two make four..........
Read the following sentences: There is some water in the bottle. He is fond of his daughter. He fell off the ladder. In sentence 1, the word in shows the relation between two things – water and bottle. In sentence 2, the word of shows the relation between the adjective fond and the noun daughter. In sentence 3, the word off shows the relation between the verb fell and the noun ladder...........
