Get your fifth grader clued into advanced grammar. She'll get to edit a few improper sentences, work on different parts of speech, and practice using correct punctuation marks.
How to Sound Clever: Master the 600 English Words You Pretend to Understand When You Don't
This book contains a collection of 600 words compiled by the author as words you hear all the time, read in newspapers and THINK you understand from the context, but you've probably never taken the time to look them up and learn their correct meaning.
No Boring Practice, Please! Parts of Speech: Reproducible Practice Pages PLUS Easy-to-Score Quizzes That Reinforce the Correct Use of Nouns, Verbs, AdReproducible Practice Pages PLUS Easy-to-Score Quizzes That Reinforce the Correct Use of Nouns, Verbs, Ad
Grade 4-6
Age 9 and up
These super-engaging, extraordinary practice pages are sure to leave students begging for more! Reproducible pages offer a quick review of key grammar skills and fun ways to practice those skills. Includes crossword puzzles, word searches, and review pages to help teachers assess students’ learning.
The Wrong Word Dictionary: 2,500 Most Commonly Confused Words (2nd Edition) provides correct usage for more than 2,500 commonly misused words in a concise and accessible handbook that assures, insures, and ensures that anyone who wants to communicate accurately and effectively chooses the right word every time. For each entry in this reference, the difference between the words is explained, and in most cases, a short and simple sentence example showing the correct usage is provided. The word definitions provided are intended strictly as aids and not dictionary definitions.
The adjective can be correctly used with a verb when some quality of the subject, rather the action of the verb, is to be expressed. These flowers smell sweet. (NOT These flowers smell sweetly.) It tastes sour. (NOT It tastes sourly.) The plural forms these and those are often used with the singular nouns kind
