Daily grammar

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Daily grammar

 

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Welcome to Daily Grammar! Daily Grammar is a fun, convenient way to learn grammar. By simplifying complex grammar subjects, Daily Grammar is a great teaching tool for both public and home-schooled children, ESL students, and anyone needing to refresh English grammar skills. By practicing language rules, any person able to read will be able to master English grammar.

Daily Grammar consists of 440 lessons and 88 quizzes. Lessons 1-90 cover the eight parts of speech, which are verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. Lessons 91-300 cover the parts of the sentence, such as appositives, predicate nominatives, direct objects, prepositional phrases, clauses, and verbals. Lessons 301-440 cover the mechanics of grammar, which is also known as capitalization and punctuation. Links to all of these grammar lessons and quizzes can be found on archive page. They also have a helpful glossary, making it easy to find the definitions to a number of grammar terms.

Here is an example from the resource:

The boy stood up and ran down the street. Up what? There is no object; therefore up is not a preposition. Down what? Street answers the question; therefore, down is a preposition. Down the street is the prepositional phrase starting with the preposition down and ending with the object street with a modifier the in between.

 

Instructions: Find the prepositional phrases in the following sentences.

 

1. Jim painted a picture on the wall of the house.

 

2. I like to lie in the shade of the apricot tree and think of the jobs for the day.

 

3. The dog jumped over the mound behind the barn and ran into the street.

 

4. Everyone but you will need a note from home with parental permission.

 

5. Around the yard for miles, you could see nothing except junk.