Page 10 - (DK) Help Your Kids with Language Arts

CONTENTS

FOREWORD 6 Negatives 80
WHY LEARN THE RULES? 10 Relative clauses 82
SPOKEN AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE 12 Idioms, analogies, and figures of speech 84
ENGLISH AROUND THE WORLD 14 Colloquialisms and slang 86
Direct and indirect speech 88
1 GRAMMAR

2 PUNCTUATION
The purpose of grammar 18
Parts of speech 20
Nouns 22 What is punctuation? 92
Plurals 24 Periods and ellipses 94
Adjectives 26 Commas 96
Comparatives and superlatives 28 Other uses of commas 98
Articles 30 Semicolons 100
Determiners 32 Colons 102
Pronouns 34 Apostrophes 104
Number and gender 36 Hyphens 106
Verbs 38 Quotation marks 108
Adverbs 40 Question marks 110
Simple tenses 42 Exclamation points 112
Perfect and continuous tenses 44 Parentheses and dashes 114
Participles 46 Bullet points 116
Auxiliary verbs 48 Numbers, dates, and time 118
Irregular verbs 50 Other punctuation 120
Verb agreement 52 Italics 122
Voices and moods 54
Phrasal verbs 56
Conjunctions 58 3 SPELLING
Prepositions 60
Interjections 62
Phrases 64 Why learn to spell? 126
Clauses 66 Alphabetical order 128
Sentences 68 Vowel sounds 130
Compound sentences 70 Consonant sounds 132
Complex sentences 72 Syllables 134
Using clauses correctly 74 Morphemes 136
Managing modifiers 76 Understanding English irregularities 138
Commonly misused words 78 Roots 140