| Description |
1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: About this book. -- Section 1. -- Development of the English language. -- Stages of development. -- Synonyms from Anglo-Saxons and Latin. -- Latin and Greek synonyms. -- Latin phrases. -- Words from the European Countries. -- Words from the Romance Languages. -- Words from Asia, the Middle East, and the Islands. -- Words from Native American Languages. -- Words from William Shakespeare. -- Phrases from William Shakespeare. -- Phrases from Miguel de Cervantes. -- Proverbs from John Heywood. -- Doublets. -- Prefixes. -- Suffixes. -- Roots. -- Origins of words. -- More word origins. -- Compounds. -- Clipped words. -- Blends. -- Acronyms. -- Eponyms. -- Words from brand names. -- Generalizations and specialization. -- A mysterious example of generalization. -- Elevation and degeneration. -- Back formation and folk etymology. -- Slang. -- Obsolescent and obsolete words. -- Neologisms and nonce words. -- New words in politics and government. -- New words in business and industry. -- New terms in science and medicine. -- New terms in art and music. -- New terms in sports. -- New terms for types of people. -- New words for foods and fashion. -- New names for new products. -- British English. -- Australian English. -- Section 2. -- Grammar and usage. -- Parts of speech. -- Types of nouns. -- Types of objects. -- Direct objects. -- Recognizing verbs. -- Principal parts of verbs. -- Transitive, intransitive, active, and passive verbs. -- Lie and lay. -- Verb tense. -- Subjunctives. -- Nouns or verbs?. -- Agreement of subjects and verbs. -- Pronouns. -- Types of pronouns. -- Recognizing adjectives. -- Recognizing adverbs. -- Adjectives or adverbs?. -- Recognizing prepositions. -- Conjunctions. -- Prefixes and suffixes. -- Dependent clauses. -- Subordinate clauses. -- Simple, compound, and complex sentences. -- Sentence fragments. -- Misplace modifiers. -- The importance of capital letters. -- Capitalization. -- Parallel construction. -- Unnecessary words. -- Usage. -- Preferred usage. -- Paragraphing. -- The importance of punctuation. -- Types of punctuation marks. -- Punctuation rules. -- Which punctuation mark?. -- End punctuation. -- Punctuating a series. -- Punctuating appositive and adjective clauses. -- Punctuating interrupters. -- Punctuating quotations. -- Apostrophes in possessive nouns. -- Apostrophes in contractions. -- The importance of periods and apostrophes. -- Common abbreviations. -- Section 3. -- Spelling and pronunciation. -- Rules for spelling plurals. -- Irregular plurals. -- Silent letters. -- I before E. -- The schwa. -- Words with repeated letters. -- The "eyes" words. -- The "seed" words. -- Words containing E's. -- Words containing the sound of OO. -- Words containing the sounds of A and AR. -- Words containing the sounds of E and I. -- Words containing the sound of SH. -- Unusual vowel combinations. -- Words with ABLE and IBLE. -- Doubling letters before suffixes. -- Adding prefixes. -- Similar words often confused. -- Synonyms. -- Synonyms inside words. -- Oodles of synonyms. -- Antonyms. -- Antonym chain. -- Homonyms. -- Animal homonyms. -- Heteronyms. -- Anagrams. -- More anagrams. -- Palindromes. -- Spelling demons. -- Spelling hexagrams. -- Spelling maze. -- Pronunciation. -- Same spelling but different pronunciation. -- Accent shift. -- Enunciation. -- Section 4. -- Names of people, places, and things. -- Places in the US named after people. -- Places in the world named after people. -- Meanings of places names. -- Places with colorful names. -- Items named after places. -- Origins of surnames. -- Surnames based on occupations. -- Names related to animals. -- Names of writers. -- Items named after people. -- Words from mythology. -- Origins of brand names. -- Names of cars. -- Names of birds. -- Names of flowers. -- Occupational names. -- Names of imaginary people. -- Section 5. -- Language an art form. -- Techniques in prose writing. -- Terms used by writers. -- Figures of speech. -- Similes and metaphors. -- Euphemisms. -- Antithesis. -- Biblical allusions. -- Allusion to fables, myths and literature. -- Symbolism. -- Parallel proverbs. -- Malapropisms. -- Oxymorons. -- Connotation. -- Sound effects. -- Tautonymic expressions. -- Inner rhyme. -- Vowel change. -- Echoic words (Onomatopoeia). -- Rhyme. -- Rhyme schemes and stanzas. -- Rhythm. -- Concrete poems (Calligrams). -- Section 6. -- Miscellaneous word games. -- October quiz. -- Thanksgiving. -- Yuletide. -- January games. -- Be my Valentine. -- Presidents day. -- March game. -- Arbor Day. -- Mother's Day and Father's Day. -- Shopping for rhymes. -- Hink Pink People. -- Tom Twisties. -- Animals in Sayings. -- Terms related to animals. -- More animal terms. -- Sounds animals make. -- Dogs. -- Colorful expressions. -- Expressions using up. -- Expressions involving a series. -- Expression involving food. -- Misleading expressions. -- Terms containing body parts. -- Expressions involving body parts. -- Double meanings. -- Misinterpretations. -- Money terms. -- Postal abbreviations. -- Gobbledygook. -- Letterspeak. -- Daffy definitions. -- Baseball and football terms. -- Words containing roman numerals. -- Numerical prefixes. -- The wicked witch. -- Break-aparts. -- Phobias. -- Repeated words. -- Most beautiful words. -- The end |
| Notes |
"For grades 7-12, here are over 200 reproducible games that provide fun practice and review of vocabulary, word origins, punctuation, spelling and pronunciation, grammar and usage, names, literary devices, and more!"--Cover |
| Subject |
English language -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
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| Genre/Form |
Puzzles and games.
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| LC no. |
92003208 |
| ISBN |
0876283032 |
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