When you have completed this CHAPTER 4, you should be able to:

• Identify the eight parts of speech.
• Distinguish between sentences and fragments.
• Use regular and irregular verbs correctly.
• Apply the principles of subject-verb agreement.

When you have finished Section 4.1, you will be able to:

• Identify the eight parts of speech.

When you have finished Section 4.2, you will be able to:

• Define the word sentence.
• Distinguish between a subject and a predicate.
• Distinguish between normal and inverted sentence order.
• Identify the types of sentences.
• Identify clauses, phrases, and sentence fragments.

When you have finished Section 4.3, you will be able to:

• List the four principal parts of a verb.
• Explain what makes most verbs regular rather than irregular.
• Define the term verb tense.
• Discuss the differences between being, transitive, and intransitive verbs.

When you have finished Section 4.4, you will be able to:

• State the basic rule of predicate agreement.
• Explain how to determine whether a collective noun is singular or plural.
• Describe subjects other than collective nouns that may be either singular or plural.
• Identify relative-pronoun clauses and their antecedents