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 Contents
How to Use This Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Lesson 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
*Nouns • Dictation Steps
Lesson 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Nouns • Dictation Steps
Lesson 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
*Synonyms • Dictation Steps • *Capitalization
Lesson 4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
*Subjects • *Predicates
Lesson 5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Nouns • *Marking Parts of Speech • Dictation Steps
Lesson 6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
*Word Research • *Hyphens
Lesson 7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Nouns
Lesson 8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Nouns • *Pronouns
Lesson 9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Nouns • Pronouns
Lesson 10. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
*Antonyms
Lesson 11. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Nouns • Pronouns
Lesson 12. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Pronouns • *Commas
Lesson 13. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
*Homonyms
Lesson 14. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Nouns • *Common Nouns • *Proper Nouns • Capitalization • *Punctuation of Dialogue
Lesson 15. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Common Nouns • Proper Nouns
Lesson 16. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Common Nouns • Commas • *Quotation Marks • *Exclamation Points • Punctuation of Dialogue
Lesson 17. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Common Nouns • Proper Nouns • Pronouns • *Dashes
Lesson 18. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
*Pluralization
Lesson 19. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Nouns • Pronouns • *Antecedents • *Numeral Notation
Lesson 20. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Nouns • Subjects • Predicates • Dictation Steps
Lesson 21. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Proper Nouns • *Verbs • Numeral Notation • Hyphens

* denotes the first time a topic is mentioned

Lesson 22. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Pronouns • Common Nouns • Proper Nouns • Verbs • *Ellipsis • *Quotations
Lesson 23. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Verbs • Pronouns • Common Nouns • Proper Nouns • *Action Verbs • Quotations
Lesson 24. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Pronouns • Action Verbs • *Contractions
Lesson 25. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
*Linking Verbs • Common Nouns • Proper Nouns
Lesson 26. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Antecedents • Pluralization • *Colons • Commas • *Format of a Letter
Lesson 27. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Pronouns • Common Nouns • Proper Nouns • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs
Lesson 28. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Pronouns • Common Nouns • Proper Nouns • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Dictation Steps
Lesson 29. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • *Semicolons
Lesson 30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Antecedents • *Apostrophes • *Possessives
Lesson 31. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Pronouns • Common Nouns • Proper Nouns • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs
Lesson 32. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Homonyms
Lesson 33. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Pronouns • Pluralization • Proper Nouns
Lesson 34. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Semicolons • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Common Nouns
Lesson 35. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
*Punctuation of Dates • Format of a Letter • *Periods • Semicolons • Commas
Lesson 36. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
*Helping Verbs
Lesson 37. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Semicolons • Commas • *Punctuation of Lists
Lesson 38. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
*Verb Tense
Lesson 39. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs
Lesson 40. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs
Lesson 41. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs • Apostrophes • Contractions • Punctuation of
Dialogue
Lesson 42. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Pronouns • Common Nouns • Proper Nouns • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs •
Apostrophes • Possessives

* denotes the first time a topic is mentioned

Lesson 43. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Commas • *Punctuation of Place Names • Punctuation of Lists • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs •
Helping Verbs • Verb Tense
Lesson 44. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Contractions • Helping Verbs • Dashes
Lesson 45. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
*Adjectives • Homonyms
Lesson 46. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Adjectives • Possessives • *“its/it’s”
Lesson 47. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Pronouns • Common Nouns • Proper Nouns • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs •
Adjectives
Lesson 48. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs • Adjectives • Contractions • *Abbreviations •
Periods
Lesson 49. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs • Proper Nouns • Adjectives • Quotation Marks
Lesson 50. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
*Format of a Script • Adjectives
Lesson 51. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Adjectives • Punctuation of Dialogue • *Dialogue Tags
Lesson 52. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
*Words with Multiple Parts of Speech • Dashes
Lesson 53. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
*Articles • Verb Tense
Lesson 54. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Pronouns • Common Nouns • Proper Nouns • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs •
Adjectives • Articles • Punctuation of Dialogue • Apostrophes • Contractions • Possessives
Lesson 55. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Adjectives • Articles • Proper Nouns
Lesson 56. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Possessives • Pluralization • Pronouns • Common Nouns • Proper Nouns • Action Verbs • Linking
Verbs • Helping Verbs • Adjectives • Articles • Exclamation Points
Lesson 57. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Possessives • Pronouns • Antecedents • “its/it’s” • Common Nouns • “whose/who’s”
Lesson 58. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Pronouns • Common Nouns • Proper Nouns • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs •
Adjectives • Articles • Colons
Lesson 59. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Proper Nouns • *Alphabetical Order of Names • Numeral Notation
Lesson 60. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Homonyms
Lesson 61. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs • Pronouns • Antecedents • Articles • Adjectives
Lesson 62. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Adjectives • *Compound Adjectives • Hyphens

* denotes the first time a topic is mentioned

Lesson 63. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Antecedents • Pronouns • Proper Nouns • Common Nouns
Lesson 64. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Adjectives • Nouns • Synonyms • Antonyms • Verb Tenses
Lesson 65. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Quotation Marks • Colons • Hyphens
Lesson 66. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Pronouns • Common Nouns • Proper Nouns • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs •
Adjectives • Articles • Punctuation of Dialogue • Capitalization
Lesson 67. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Pronouns • Antecedents • Homonyms • Verbs
Lesson 68. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Verb Tenses • Proper Nouns • *Nouns as Adjectives
Lesson 69. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Pronouns • Common Nouns • Proper Nouns • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs •
Adjectives • Articles
Lesson 70. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Pronouns • Common Nouns • Proper Nouns • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs •
Adjectives • Articles
Lesson 71. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Pronouns • *Personal Pronouns • *First/Second/Third Person
Lesson 72. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Pronouns • First/Second/Third Person • Hyphens
Lesson 73. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
First/Second/Third Person • Pronouns
Lesson 74. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Pronouns • First/Second/Third Person
Lesson 75. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Pronouns • Common Nouns • Proper Nouns • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs •
Adjectives • Articles • First/Second/Third Person
Lesson 76. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Pronouns • Common Nouns • Proper Nouns • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs •
Adjectives • Articles • Synonyms • First/Second/Third Person
Lesson 77. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
*Adverbs
Lesson 78. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Adverbs • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs
Lesson 79. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Pronouns • Common Nouns • Proper Nouns • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs •
Adjectives • Articles • Adverbs
Lesson 80. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Adverbs • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs • Quotation Marks • Possessives •
Apostrophes
Lesson 81. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Hyphens • Numeral Notation • Compound Adjectives

* denotes the first time a topic is mentioned

Lesson 82. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Adverbs
Lesson 83. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Adverbs • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs • Verb Tense • First/Second/Third Person
Lesson 84. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Pronouns • Common Nouns • Proper Nouns • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs •
Adjectives • Articles • Adverbs
Lesson 85. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Commas • Adverbs • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs
Lesson 86. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
*Former and Latter
Lesson 87. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
First/Second/Third Person • Pronouns • Format of a Letter
Lesson 88. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Punctuation of Dialogue • *Interjections
Lesson 89. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Pronouns • Common Nouns • Proper Nouns • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs •
Adjectives • Articles • Adverbs • Capitalization
Lesson 90. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Verb Tense • First/Second/Third Person • Compound Adjectives
Lesson 91. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Pronouns • Common Nouns • Proper Nouns • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs •
Adjectives • Articles • Adverbs • Dashes
Lesson 92. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Pronouns • First/Second/Third Person • Capitalization
Lesson 93. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
*Adverb Phrases • *Adjective Phrases • Apostrophes
Lesson 94. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Adverb Phrases • Adjective Phrases • Capitalization
Lesson 95. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Adjectives • Adverbs
Lesson 96. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Possessives • Apostrophes • Proper Nouns
Lesson 97. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Interjections • Quotation Marks • Punctuation of Dialogue • Dialogue Tags
Lesson 98. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Adjectives • Adverbs
Lesson 99. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
*Prepositions
Lesson 100. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Prespositions • Articles • Adjectives • Nouns • Pronouns
Lesson 101. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Prepositions • Articles • Adjectives • Nouns • Pronouns
Lesson 102. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Exclamation Points • *Question Marks • Punctuation of Dialogue • Periods

* denotes the first time a topic is mentioned

Lesson 103. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Pronouns • Common Nouns • Proper Nouns • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs •
Adjectives • Articles • Adverbs • Prepositions
Lesson 104. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Pronouns • Common Nouns • Proper Nouns • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs •
Adjectives • Articles • Adverbs • Propositions
Lesson 105. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Verb Tenses • First/Second/Third Person • *Prepositional Phrases
Lesson 106. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
*Conjunctions
Lesson 107. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Pronouns • Common Nouns • Proper Nouns • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs •
Adjectives • Articles • Adverbs • Prepositions • Conjunctions
Lesson 108. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Homonyms
Lesson 109. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Pronouns • Common Nouns • Proper Nouns • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs •
Adjectives • Articles • Adverbs • Prepositions • Conjunctions • Commas
Lesson 110. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Capitalization • Punctuation of Dialogue
Lesson 111. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Pronouns • Common Nouns • Proper Nouns • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs •
Adjectives • Articles • Adverbs • Prepositions • Conjunctions • Compound Adjectives
Lesson 112. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Pronouns • Common Nouns • Proper Nouns • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs •
Adjectives • Articles • Adverbs • Prepositions • Conjunctions
Lesson 113. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Periods • Commas • Quotation Marks • Hyphens
Lesson 114. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Pronouns • Common Nouns • Proper Nouns • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs •
Adjectives • Articles • Adverbs • Prepositions • Conjunctions • Interjections
Lesson 115. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Subjects • Predicates • *Complete Subjects • *Complete Predicates • *Simple Subjects • *Simple
Predicates
Lesson 116. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Complete Subjects • Complete Predicates • Simple Subjects • Simple Predicates
Lesson 117. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Simple Subjects • Simple Predicates • Parts of Speech
Lesson 118. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Punctuation of Dates • Alphabetization
Lesson 119. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
*You (understood) as a Subject
Lesson 120. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Simple Subjects • Simple Predicates • Parts of Speech • Semicolons • Punctuation of Dialogue
Lesson 121. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Simple Subjects • Simple Predicates • Parts of Speech

* denotes the first time a topic is mentioned

Lesson 122. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Pronouns • Common Nouns • Proper Nouns • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs •
Adjectives • Articles • Adverbs • Prepositions • Conjunctions • Interjections
Lesson 123. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Punctuation of Lists • Colons • Semicolons • Periods • Commas
Lesson 124. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Homonyms • Possessives
Lesson 125. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Colons • Commas • Quotation Marks • Periods • *Parentheses • Apostrophes
Lesson 126. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Compound Adjectives • Hyphens • Commas • Possessives • Proper Nouns • Common Nouns •
Interjections • Conjunctions
Lesson 127. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
*“Conscience/Conscious”
Lesson 128. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Pronouns • Common Nouns • Proper Nouns • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs •
Adjectives • Articles • Adverbs • Prepositions • Conjunctions • Interjections
Lesson 129. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Antonyms
Lesson 130. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Possessives • Apostrophes
Lesson 131. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Pronouns • Common Nouns • Proper Nouns • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs •
Adjectives • Articles • Adverbs • Prepositions • Conjunctions • Interjections
Lesson 132. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Parts of Speech • Simple Subjects • Simple Predicates • *Compound Subjects
Lesson 133. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Common Nouns • Proper Nouns • Pronouns • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs
Lesson 134. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Pronouns • Antecedents
Lesson 135. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Homonyms
Lesson 136. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Pronouns • Common Nouns • Proper Nouns • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs
• Adjectives • Articles • Adverbs • Prepositions • Conjunctions • Interjections • Commas •
Capitalization
Lesson 137. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Adjectives • Articles • Adverbs • Conjunctions • Verb Tense • First/Second/Third Person
Lesson 138. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Prepositions • Interjections
Lesson 139. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Simple Subjects • *Compound Predicates
Lesson 140. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Pronouns • Common Nouns • Proper Nouns • Action Verbs • Linking Verbs • Helping Verbs •
Adjectives • Articles • Adverbs • Prepositions • Conjunctions • Interjections
Parts of Speech Short Lists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

* denotes the first time a topic is mentioned

 How to Use This Book

Using Language Well, Book Two, is designed to be used alongside Spelling Wisdom, Book Two. You
will need both books.
Spelling Wisdom books and Using Language Well teacher books are non-consumable and can be
reused. Using Language Well student books are consumable; you will need one per student and a
notebook for dictation exercises.
We recommend doing two lessons per week. At that pace this book will last two years: Lessons
1–70 in the first year, Lessons 71–140 in the second.
Most lessons take only five or ten minutes to complete, plus the time spent to prepare for
dictation.

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 Lesson 1
(from Exercise 1, A Book on Hand)

1. Read Exercise 1 in Spelling Wisdom, Book 2.

2. One particular word in that sentence is very important. It helps you get the same mental picture
that the writer had in her mind when she wrote the sentence. That word is the name of a thing:
book.
We call words that name things nouns. Think of five different nouns that, if used in that sentence
instead of book, would change the whole mental picture.

Writing Point: Choose nouns carefully when you are writing to best communicate
the picture you have in your head.

3. Prepare Exercise 1 for dictation by following these steps.

» Step One: Read the passage and identify which words you don’t know how to spell yet.
» Step Two: Study those words. Look at them carefully until you can close your eyes and see
them in your mind.
» Step Three: Look closely at the punctuation and capital letters. (Copy the exercise, if that
will help you.)
» Step Four: When you are sure you know how to spell every single word in the exercise and
are familiar with the punctuation and capitalization, ask your teacher to dictate it to you
while you write it in a notebook.

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 Lesson 2
(from Exercise 2, Great Things)

1. Read Exercise 2 in Spelling Wisdom, Book 2.

2. Explain what a noun is.

3. Some nouns name things that you can actually see or hear, such as book or music; other nouns
name things that you cannot see or hear, but you know they exist.
List five nouns from the exercise.

4. Prepare Exercise 2 for dictation by following these steps.

» Step One: Read the passage and identify which words you don’t know how to spell yet.
» Step Two: Study those words. Look at them carefully until you can close your eyes and see
them in your mind.
» Step Three: Look closely at the punctuation and capital letters. (Copy the exercise, if that
will help you.)
» Step Four: When you are sure you know how to spell every single word in the exercise and
are familiar with the punctuation and capitalization, ask your teacher to dictate it to you
while you write it in your notebook.

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 Lesson 3
(from Exercise 3, Habits)

1. Read Exercise 3 in Spelling Wisdom, Book 2.

2. Define “assumed” in that context.

3. Think of a synonym for each of the words below. (Remember, a synonym is a word that means
the same as another word.)

• strive

• flayed

4. How would you put the sentence in the exercise in your own words?

5. Prepare Exercise 3 for dictation by following these steps.

» Step One: Read the passage and identify which words you don’t know how to spell yet.
» Step Two: Study those words. Look at them carefully until you can close your eyes and see
them in your mind.
» Step Three: Look closely at the punctuation and capital letters. (Copy the exercise, if that
will help you.)
» Step Four: When you are sure you know how to spell every single word in the exercise and
are familiar with the punctuation and capitalization, ask your teacher to dictate it to you
while you write it in your notebook.

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 Lesson 4
(from Exercise 4, Responsibility)

1. Read Exercise 4 in Spelling Wisdom, Book 2.

2. A sentence can be divided into two main parts: the subject (that of which we speak) and the
predicate (what we say about it). Divide the sentence from the exercise into its two main parts
by drawing a line between the subject and the predicate.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

3. Study the exercise until you are prepared for dictation. Make sure you know how to spell all of
the nouns.

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 Lesson 5
(from Exercise 5, On the Truth)

1. Read Exercise 5 in Spelling Wisdom, Book 2.

2. Tell what a noun is.

3. Find two nouns in this shortened sentence from the exercise and mark them by writing N above
each.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth.

4. Study the exercise until you are prepared for dictation. Make sure you are completing all the
steps.
» Step One: Read the passage and identify which words you don’t know how to spell yet.
» Step Two: Study those words. Look at them carefully until you can close your eyes and see
them in your mind.
» Step Three: Look closely at the punctuation and capital letters. (Copy the exercise, if that
will help you.)
» Step Four: When you are sure you know how to spell every single word in the exercise and
are familiar with the punctuation and capitalization, ask your teacher to dictate it to you
while you write it in your notebook.

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 Lesson 62
(from Exercise 62, The Short-Billed Wren)

1. Read Exercise 62 in Spelling Wisdom, Book 2.

2. Find the adjective that modifies each of these nouns in the first sentence of the exercise.

blackbirds

pastures

woods

wren

cousin

3. Adjectives made up of more than one word—as, red-winged—are called compound adjectives.
Notice the punctuation that should be used when writing a compound adjective in order to
avoid confusion.

Writing Point: Without the hyphen in red-winged blackbird, the reader would
think the writer was referring to a blackbird that was red and had wings—a red
winged blackbird. The reader could be distracted pondering such mental puzzles
as How can a blackbird be red? and Don’t all blackbirds have wings? Keep your
reader focused, not distracted, by using correct punctuation to help him.

4. Study the exercise until you are prepared for dictation.

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 Lesson 114
(from Exercise 114, The Gardener)

1. Read Exercise 114 in Spelling Wisdom, Book 2.

2. Identify what part of speech each italicized word is in the following stanza from the poem.
Write PRO above a pronoun, N above a common noun, PN above a proper noun, AV above an
action verb, LV above a linking verb, HV above a helping verb, ADJ above an adjective, ART
above an article, ADV above an adverb, PP above a preposition that begins a phrase, CON
above a conjunction, and INT above an interjection.

Silly gardener! summer goes,

And winter comes with pinching toes,

When in the garden bare and brown

You must lay your barrow down.

3. Study the exercise until you are prepared for dictation. Make sure you spell the fruit, currant,
found in the garden and not the time designation, current.

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