As a boy and his grandfather grow older and are eventually parted by death, the boy treasures the old man's chair as a special memento of a happy relationship.

A young girl notices that her grandfather is unhappy and thinks a new chair might cheer him up.

Book of poems about growing up in a small Pennsylvania town in the 1950-60's that children can illustrate. Topics include: bats, skunks, and bears. Would be great gift for grandparents.

Unlock the doors to language proficiency with "Mastering English Grammar," the ultimate MCQ guide designed to elevate your understanding of the intricacies of the English language. Whether you're a student aiming for grammatical mastery or an educator enhancing language instruction, this comprehensive resource is your key to success. About the Book: Dive into the nuances of English grammar with our meticulously crafted MCQ guide, covering essential topics from parts of speech to advanced grammar rules. "Mastering English Grammar" is the go-to resource for learners seeking a robust foundation or looking to refine their language skills through a question-driven approach. Key Features: Extensive Question Bank: Access an extensive repository of MCQs covering grammar fundamentals, sentence structure, punctuation, and more. Our guide ensures a thorough exploration of key topics essential for language excellence. Detailed Explanations: Enhance your language proficiency with detailed explanations accompanying each MCQ. Understand the rules, exceptions, and nuances, making English grammar principles more accessible and memorable. Exam-Ready Content: Aligned with English grammar exam patterns, our guide prioritizes the types of questions commonly encountered in language assessments. Boost your exam readiness and build confidence in your grammatical skills. Progressive Difficulty Levels: Progress from basic to advanced questions, providing a structured learning experience. Challenge yourself with incrementally complex questions to develop a strong foundation in English grammar. Visual Learning Tools: Reinforce your knowledge with visual aids such as grammar diagrams and examples. These tools provide a visual dimension to the MCQs, enhancing your understanding of grammatical concepts. Why Choose Our Guide? Language Excellence Guarantee: Benefit from a carefully curated collection of MCQs that mirror exam content and difficulty levels. Our guide is a valuable resource to enhance your language proficiency and performance. Expert Authorship: Crafted by language professionals and educators, this guide reflects a deep understanding of English grammar principles, ensuring accuracy and clarity in explanations. Digital Accessibility: Seamlessly integrate your language learning into your digital lifestyle. Our guide is available in digital format, providing the flexibility to study anytime, anywhere. Comprehensive Review: Use our guide for focused revision and comprehensive review. The progressive structure ensures a well-rounded understanding of English grammar concepts, making it an invaluable tool for learners at all levels. Keywords: English Grammar, MCQ Guide, Language Excellence, Parts of Speech, Sentence Structure, Punctuation, Comprehensive Question Bank, Detailed Explanations, Exam-Ready Content, Visual Learning Tools, Progressive Difficulty Levels. Transform your language proficiency with "Mastering English Grammar: A Comprehensive MCQ Guide for Language Excellence." Download your copy now and embark on a journey of grammatical mastery, confidence, and success in the dynamic world of the English language. Whether you're a student or an educator, this guide is your key to unlocking the secrets of English grammar with precision! 1Noun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.1Common and Proper Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2Singular and Plural Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 1.3Collective Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 1.4Masculine and Feminine Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 1.5The Possessive Form of Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 2Pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 2.1Personal Pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 2.2Reflexive Pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308 2.3Possessive Pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360 2.4Demonstrative Pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411 2.5Interrogative Pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456 2.6Indefinite Pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508 3Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569 3.1Kinds of Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569 3.2The Order of Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599 3.3Adjective Endings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640 3.4The Comparison of Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662 3.5Adjective Phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691 4Determiners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741 4.1The Articles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741 4.2Articles with abstract nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 810 Definite and Indefinite Articles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 810 4.4Demonstrative Determiners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 869 4.5Quantifying Determiners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 871 4.6Interrogative Determiners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879 4.7Possessive Determiners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 884 4.8Noun Determiners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 893 5Verbs and Tenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909 5.1Subject and Verb Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909 5.2Transitive and Intransitive Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 948 5.3The Simple Present Tense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 963 5.4The Present Progressive Tense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1025 5.5The Simple Past Tense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1046 5.6Irregular Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1123 5.7The Past Progressive Tense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1199 5.8The Present Perfect Tense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1214 5.9Irregular Past Participles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1283 5.10The Future Tense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1298 5.11The Infinitive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1390 5.12The Imperative Form of Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1428 5.13Gerunds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1436 6Auxiliary Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1533 6.1Verb Phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1533 6.2can and could . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1622 6.3will and would . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1676 6.4shall and should . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1681 6.5ought to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1684 6.6may and might . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1713 6.7Modal verb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1740 7Adverbs and Adverb Phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1819 7.1Adverbs of Manner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1819 7.2Adverbs of Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1866 7.3Adverbs of Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1907 7.4Adverbs of Frequency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1921 7.5Adverbs of Duration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1979 7.6Adverbs of Emphasis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1980 4.38Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1983 8.1Preposition or Adverb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1983 8.2Prepositions of Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1987 8.3Prepositions of Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2009 8.4Prepositions of Direction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2096 8.5Prepositional Phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2111 8.6Prepositions with Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2189 8.7Verbs or Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2280 9Conjunctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2373 9.1Conjunctions Linking Phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2373 9.2Conjunctions with Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2398 9.3Conjunctions That Join Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2402 9.4Conjunctions of Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2483 9.5Subordinating Conjunctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2495 9.6CONJUNCTION of PURPOSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2563 9.7Conjunction of Goals 9.8Conjunctions and Semicolons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2574 10 Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2587 10.1Types of sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2587 10.2Sentences with Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2657 10.3Verbs with Two Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2666 10.4Simple Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2669 10.5Compound Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2734 10.6Conditional Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2785 10.7Positive and Negative Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2896 10.8Question Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2905 11 Direct and Indirect Speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2977 11.1Direct Speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2977 11.2Reported Speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3052 11.3Indirect Speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3118 11.4Indirect Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3176 11.5Indirect Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3188 12 Punctuation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3241 Punctuation Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32411 13 Miscellenous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3283 13.1 Double comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.2 Antonyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.3 Synonyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.4 One word substitution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.5 Idioms-phrases-proverbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.6 Odd one out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.7 Genders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.8 Analogies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.9 Jumble word and sentence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.10 Prefix-su?ix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.11 Wh-questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.12 Exclamatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.13 correct-incorrect spelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Grandpa's Chair is a tender children's story of a boy recalling wonderful memories that he and his great grandfather shared. As a very young boy, he and his grandfather would read books and stories and play games while sitting on this special chair. Looking back at a photo album, the boy recalls funny and unique memories of his grandfather, many of which revolve round the chair.The death of the grandfather is handled in a sensitive manner that allows the boy and his mother to look back lovingly at a wonderful man that so enriched their lives. A dispute arose about Grandpa's old chair. Mom wanted to get rid of it since it was old and tattered and did not belong in the living room any longer, but the boy very much wanted to keep it. they end of compromising as the moved Grandpa's special chair to the boy's bedroom where he could now sit and fondly remember his grandfather in the peace and quiet of his own room. This story while fiction, has some elements of truth and recounts some actual events and memories of the author's great grandfather. This is an excellent book to read with a child who has lost a grandparent.

If only I could have been a daddy’s girl I would not of had grown up in that monster’s world That monster he came calling for me in his house I was scared as can be Jamae Vandegraph remembers—and wishes she couldn’t. She remembers the man long ago who took her to a cold, dark, unfurnished upstairs bedroom equipped with an old wooden tripod with a big camera that rested on its top. She remembers this room because this is where he undressed her and forced her to touch him. She remembers being cold, scared, and alone. Most of all, she remembers closing her eyes and wishing she was anywhere but there. In an autobiographical collection of prose and poetry, Vandegraph reflects on the anger and hurt that accompanied being a victim of sexual abuse as a young girl. In poignant verse that explores the terrifying moments when she was pulled out of her innocence and into the darkness, Vandegraph shares how she was victimized and eventually healed through forgiveness, self-love, and hope for a new future. A Single Tear is a memoir of prose and poems that leads others on a heartbreaking path through childhood sexual abuse and ultimately into the bright light of healing.