"This step-by-step approach helps you learn the rules of grammar quickly and easily"--

Provides a basic introduction to English language grammar, including parts of speech, grammar rules, and the literary devices that writers use to create specific effects.

Offers tips and gives examples of correct English language grammar usage, and provides practice questions.

Through rhyming text paired with colorful illustrations, students will learn what adjectives do as they sing along and describe some of their favorite fall things.

Personifies all the major elements of grammar with superhero or supervillain identities, explaining the "powers" of each part of speech while revealing important rules using colorful, memory-bolstering characterizations and comic book-style illustrations.

Now enhanced with audio recordings of exercise answers through the McGraw Hill Language Lab app, this bestselling guide to learning ESL is more helpful than ever. Based on tried-and-true method, Practice Makes Perfect: English Vocabulary for Beginning ESL Learners helps you develop your vocabulary and comprehension skills with practice in word building, analyzing new words, and using them in conversation. Chapters are built around themes, such as...

Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing? Why should any of us care? In The Sense of Style, linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker answers these questions and more. Rethinking the usage guide for the 21st century, Pinker doesn't carp about the decline of language or recycle pet peeves from the rulebooks of...

Provides information on grammatical rules and how to use them, with advice on adding variety to writing, and examples of the right and wrong way to say things.