Last updated June 16, 1999
 
Dr. Ed Vavra's KISS Approach to Sentence Structure
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Exercises for Level Two

You should be very comfortable with prepositional phrases
(Level One), before you begin Level Two.

Directions:

     First, study the instructional material on subjects, verbs, and complements. Then the directions are always the same:
 

1.  Select any exercise. 

2. Place parentheses ( ) around every prepositional phrase. Draw a curved line from each opening paren to the word that the phrase modifies.

3. Underline finite verbs twice, their subjects once. Label complements (PA, PN, IO, DO).

You will find it much easier if you work your way through the text, one sentence at a time. Do your best with a sentence, then forget it and go on to the next.

Once you have completed an exercise, go back to the Main Menu of Exercises to get the answer key. (Yes, I have intentionally made it difficult to get to them.) Keep doing these exercises until you get at least two completely (100%) correct. Then you can move on to Level Three.


Begin with some jokes?
(Who says grammar exercises must be boring?)

Joke # 1 Joke # 2 Joke # 3
Joke # 4 Joke # 5 Joke # 6
Joke # 7 Joke # 8 Joke # 9

Try a few of Aesop's Fables?

Fable # 1 Fable # 2 Fable # 3
Fable # 4 Fable # 5 Fable # 6

Opening Paragraphs of Famous Novels

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
Henry James' Daisy Miller
Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer
 


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