Remember all those grammar lessons you didn't understand when you were a kid? Using graphics, humor, puzzles, and games, Elementary English is designed as a reference tool to provide detailed information to elementary-age children (and their parents and teachers) on parts of speech, parts of sentences, and types of sentences. Every section ends with tips for improving writing skills because, after all, grammar is worthless if it doesn't make you a better writer.
Topics Include Nouns: person, place, thing, idea, count, mass, abstract, concrete, singular, plural, verbals, noun phrases and clauses, appositive, and nominative absolutes Pronouns: first, second, and third person pronouns, singular and plural, cases, demonstrative, indefinite, interrogative, number, and relative pronouns, and having clear antecedents Adjectives: articles, descriptive, possessive, demonstrative, indefinite, interrogative, and number adjectives, adjective clauses, and comparisons with adjectives Prepositions: lists of prepositions and types of prepositional phrases (adjectival and adverbial) Verbs: transitive and intransitive, linking and helping, verb phrases, tenses, irregular conjugations, active and passive voice, misplaced modifiers, and participial phrases Adverbs: time, place, manner, degree, and negation adverbs, adverb phrases and clauses, and comparisons with adverbs Conjunctions: coordinating, correlative, and subordinating conjunctions, and using conjunctions in series Interjections Sentences: complete and simple subjects and predicates, direct and indirect objects, predicate nominatives and adjectives, independent and dependent clauses, fragments and run-ons Types: subject-intransitive verb, subject-transitive verb-direct object, subject-linking verb-predicate nominative, and subject-linking verb-predicate adjectives Levels: simple, compound, complex, compound-complex Style: vary sentence lengths, types, and openings, use similes, metaphors, hyperbole, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, vivid sensory imagery