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Elementary English
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
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