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Glencoe Language Arts: Grammar and Language Workbook, Grade 9
Section 60: Modifiers: Irregular Comparisons
Glencoe Language Arts: Grammar and Language Workbook, Grade 9
1st Edition
McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 9780028182940
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Chapter 1: Parts of Speech
Section 1: Nouns: Singular, Plural, and Collective
Section 2: Nouns: Proper and Common; Concrete and Abstract
Section 3: Pronouns: Personal and Possessive; Reflexive and Intensive
Section 4: Pronouns: Interrogative, Relative, Demonstrative, Indefinite
Section 5: Verbs: Action (Transitive / Intransitive)
Section 6: Verbs: Linking
Section 7: Verb Phrases
Section 8: Adjectives
Section 9: Adverbs
Section 10: Prepositions
Section 11: Cumulative Review
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Page 48: Writing Link
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Chapter 2: Parts of the Sentence
Section 12: Simple Subjects and Simple Predicates
Section 13: Complete Subjects and Complete Predicates
Section 14: Compound Subjects and Compound Predicates
Section 15: Order of Subject and Predicate
Section 16: Complements : Direct and Indirect Objects
Section 17: Cumulative Review
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Chapter 3: Phrases
Section 18: Prepositional Phrases
Section 19: Participles and Participial Phrases
Section 20: Gerunds and Gerund Phrases: Appositives and Appositive Phrases
Section 21: Infinitives and Infinitives Phrases
Section 22: Cumulative Review
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Chapter 4: Clauses and Sentences Structure
Section 23: Main and Subordinate Clauses
Section 24: Simple and Compound Sentences
Section 25: Complex and Compound-Complex Sentences
Section 26: Adjective Clauses
Section 27: Adverb Clauses
Section 28: Noun Clauses
Section 29: Kinds of Sentences: Declarative and Imperative
Section 30: Kinds of Sentences: Interrogative and Exclamatory
Section 31: Sentence Fragments
Section 32: Cumulative Review
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Chapter 5: Diagraming Sentences
Section 33: Diagraming Simple Sentences
Section 34: Diagraming Simple Sentences with Phrases
Section 35: Cumulative Review
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Chapter 6: Verb Tenses and Voice
Section 36: Regular Verbs: Principal Parts
Section 37: Irregular Verbs: Principal Parts
Section 38: Tense of Verbs: Present, Past, and Future
Section 39: Perfect Tenses: Present, Past, and Future
Section 40: Tenses of Verbs
Section 41: Verbs: Progressive and Emphatic Forms
Section 42: Verbs: Compatibility of Tenses
Section 43: Cumulative Review
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Chapter 7: Subject-Verb Agreement
Section 44: Subject-Verb Agreement
Section 45: Subject-Verb Agreement and Intervening Prepositional Phrases
Section 46: Subject-Verb Agreement and Linking Verbs
Section 47: Subject-Verb Agreement in Inverted Sentences
Section 48: Subject-Verb Agreement and Special Subjects
Section 49: Subject-Verb Agreement and Compound Subjects
Section 50: Subject-Verb Agreement and Intervening Expressions
Section 51: Cumulative Review
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Chapter 8: Using Pronouns Correctly
Section 52: Personal Pronouns: Case
Section 53: Pronouns with and as Appositives; After Than and As
Section 54: Who and Whom in Questions and Subordinate Clauses
Section 55: Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement in Number and Gender
Section 56: Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement in Person
Section 57: Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement with Indefinite Pronoun Antecedent
Section 58: Cumulative Review
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Chapter 9: Using Modifiers Correctly
Section 59: Modifiers: Three Degrees of Comparison
Section 60: Modifiers: Irregular Comparisons
Section 61: Modifiers: Double and Incomplete Comparisons
Section 62: Using Good or Well; Bad or Badly
Section 63: Double Negatives
Section 64: Cumulative Review
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Chapter 10: Usage Glossary
Section 65: Usage: a to altogether
Section 66: Usage: amount to could of
Section 67: Usage: different from to regardless
Section 68: Usage: this kind to reason is because
Section 69: Cumulative Review
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Chapter 11: Capitalization
Section 70: Capitalization of Sentences
Section 71: Capitalization of Proper Nouns
Section 72: Cumulative Review
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Chapter 12: Punctuation, Abbreviations, and Numbers
Section 73: End Punctuation: Period, Exclamation Point, and Question Mark
Section 74: Colons
Section 75: Semicolons
Section 76: Commas and Compound Sentences
Section 77: Commas in a Series and Between Coordinate Adjectives
Section 78: Commas and Nonessential Elements
Section 79: Commas and Introductory Phrases
Section 80: Commas and Adverb Clauses and Antithetical Phrases
Section 81: Commas with Titles, Addresses,and Numbers
Section 82: Commas and Direct Address and in Tag Questions and Letter Writing
Section 83: Commas in Review
Section 84: Dashes to Signal Change and to Emphasize
Section 85: Parentheses
Section 86: Quotation Marks for Direct Quotations
Section 87: Quotation Marks with Titles of Short Works, Unusual Expressions, and other Marks of Punctuation
Section 88: Italics
Section 89: The Apostrophe
Section 90: the Hyphen
Section 91: Abbreviations
Section 92: Cumulative Review
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Chapter 13: Vocabulary and Spelling
Section 93: Building Vocabulary: Learning from Context
Section 94: Building Vocabulary: Word Roots
Section 95: Building Vocabulary: Prefixes and Suffixes
Section 96: Basic Spelling Rules I
Section 97: Review: Basic Spelling Rules
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Chapter 14: Composition
Section 98: The Writing Process: Prewriting
Section 99: The Writing Process: Drafting
Section 100: The Writing Process: Revising
Section 101: The Writing Process: Editing
Section 102: The Writing Process: Presenting
Section 103: Outlining
Section 104: Writing Effective Sentences
Section 105: Building Paragraphs
Section 106: Paragraph Ordering
Section 107: Personal Letters
Section 108: Business Letters: Letters of Request or Complaint
Section 109: Business Letters: Resumes and Cover Letters
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All Solutions
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