Flash Exercises

Exercises found at the Companion Website will provide you with additional practice on many issues related to writing, research, grammar, and correct usage.

• Exercise 1: Parts of speech


• Exercise 2: Subjects and predicates


• Exercise 3: Sentence patterns


• Exercise 4: Prepositional phrases


• Exercise 5: Verbals and verbal phrases


• Exercise 6: Appositives


• Exercise 7: Dependent clauses


• Exercise 8: Classifying sentences


• Exercise 9: Identifying subjects and objects


• Exercise 10: Pronoun case: Compound subjects and objects


• Exercise 11: Pronoun case: Who versus whom


• Exercise 12: –s and –ed verb endings


• Exercise 13: Irregular verbs


• Exercise 14: Auxiliary verbs


• Exercise 15: Verb tenses


• Exercise 16: Tense sequence


• Exercise 17: Verbs plus gerunds or infinitives


• Exercise 18: Verbs plus particles


• Exercise 19: Passive and active voice


• Exercise 20: Passive voice


• Exercise 21: Subjunctive mood


• Exercise 22: Subject-verb agreement


• Exercise 23: Subject-verb agreement


• Exercise 24: Subject-verb agreement: –s or –es endings


• Exercise 25: Subject-verb agreement: Indefinite pronouns


• Exercise 26: Pronoun-antecedent agreement


• Exercise 27: Prounoun-antecedent agreement


• Exercise 28: Adjectives and adverbs


• Exercise 29: Comparatives and superlatives


• Exercise 30: Nouns as modifiers


• Exercise 31: Present and past participles as modifiers


• Exercise 32: Articles: a, an, the

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