Phoenix English Skills: Grammar & Punctuation

Grammar and Punctuation is one of four workbooks in the Phoenix English Skills series for junior secondary students. It features sets of exercises and activities dealing with: 

• nouns
• pronouns
• adjectives
• adverbs
• phrases
• clauses
• sentences
• punctuation 

Each section is introduced with a brief explanation and revision, followed by exercises ranging in degree of difficulty from basic revision to challenging. All exercises have answers in a separate section.

It can be used for:

• classroom exercises
• homework
• assessment
• extra work
• revision

Grammar and Punctuation Contents

NOUNS 

1 Types of nouns 
2 Singular and plural nouns 
3 Nominalisations 
4 Nouns in review 

PRONOUNS 

5 Personal pronouns: I, you, he, she, it, we, you and they 
6 Personal pronouns - me, you, him, her, it, us, you and them 
7 Other types of pronouns 
8 Troubleshooting pronouns 
9 Pronouns in review 

ADJECTIVES 

10 Recognise and use adjectives 
11 Adjectives which show degree 
12 Adjectives in review

VERBS 

13 Recognise and use verbs 
14 Participles and auxiliary verbs 
15 Correct verb tense 
16 Simple past tense 
17 Noun-verb agreement 
18 Verbs in review 

ADVERBS 

19 Recognise and use adverbs 
20 Comparing with adverbs 
21 Adverbs in review 

PHRASES 

22 Prepositional phrases 

CLAUSES 

23 Independent and dependent clauses 

SENTENCES 

24 Simple, compound and complex sentences 
25 Statements, questions, exclamations, commands 
26 Making meaning clear 
27 Sentences in review 

PUNCTUATION 

28 Sentence endings and capitals 
29 Commas, colons and semicolons 
30 Apostrophes 
31 Direct and indirect speech 

TEST 

Answers