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Language Fundamentals, Grade 2 will give second-graders the grade-appropriate practice they need for a broad spectrum of language skills grammar, sentences, mechanics, and more. You'll love the test-format review pages and the sentence-editing exercises where students apply the skills to writing. Skills practiced include the following (age-appropriate terminology is used on student pages): * Grammar Skills: common, proper, & possessive nouns comparative and superlative adjectives subject and object pronouns subject-verb agreement * Sentence Skills: declarative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentences combining sentence fragments to form sentences compound sentences * Mechanics Skills: capitalization, abbreviations, commas and quotation marks in dialogue, end marks * Usage: compound subjects, double negatives, indefinite articles, frequently confused words * Vocabulary: synonyms, antonyms, prefixes, suffixes, frequently misspelled words * Sentence Editing: After practicing a skill, use the corresponding pages in this section for application to student writing. Students edit and correct sentences with common errors.