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A PARENTS CHOICE AWARDWINNING SERIESTake a fun-filled trip through TV-land with your grammar-teaching buddies, Bridget, Babette, Barnaby, Sondra, Taylor, and their feline friend Beauregard. You'll be amazed as all of those troublesome elements of grammar–parts of speech, parts of a sentence, agreement, modifiers–are explained, as you hang out with the cast of Friends in Central Perk, travel to Springfield to visit The Simpsons, and conjure up the ghost of television shows past to see what The Brady Bunch is up to.
Youll be able to learn quickly and have fun at the same time. Your teachers will be impressed. Your parents will be impressed. Your friends will be impressed. The whole WORLD will be impressed. Youll finally know your grammar backwards and forwards, and youll never have to worry about it again.
Synopsis
Features games and amusing stories guaranteed to make learning the rules of grammar an enjoyable experience for kids.
About the Author
The Princeton Review is the fastest growing test-preparation company in the country, with over 60 franchise offices in the nation. Each year, we help more than 2 million students prepare for college, grad school, professional licensing exams, and successful careers.
Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgmentsv
Introduction ix
Chapter 1 The Names of Things1
Nouns3
Pronouns5
Verbs6
Adjectives8
Adverbs9
Prepositions12
Conjunctions13
Interjections15
Chapter 2 The Sentence21
The Subject21
The Predicate24
Phrases28
Clauses30
Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences32
Chapter 3 More About Nouns37
Types of Nouns37
Pronouns45
Chapter 4 More About VerbsTK
Types of VerbsTK
Chapter 5 More About Adjectives, Adverbs, Prepositions, and Other DetailsTK
Adjectives and AdverbsTK
Modifiers and PrepositionsTK
Other Details About GrammarTK
Chapter 6 Punctuation83
The Period84
The Comma85
The Question Mark87
The Exclamation Point87
The Semicolon88
The Colon89
Quotation Marks89
The Dash90
Parentheses91
Chapter 7 The Princeton Review List of Commonly
Misused and Confused Words93
Learning to Spell Correctly93
Diction96
Glossary 107
Answers 113
About the Author 147