If You Were an Adjective
Title | If You Were an Adjective PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Dahl |
Publisher | Capstone |
Total Pages | 25 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 140481356X |
Introduces adjectives through a picture tale depicting the adventures of different kinds of animals.
If You Were an Adjective
Title | If You Were an Adjective PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Dahl |
Publisher | Capstone |
Total Pages | 25 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 140481356X |
Introduces adjectives through a picture tale depicting the adventures of different kinds of animals.
When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It
Title | When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It PDF eBook |
Author | Ben Yagoda |
Publisher | Crown |
Total Pages | 258 |
Release | 2008-02-12 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0767929314 |
What do you get when you mix nine parts of speech, one great writer, and generous dashes of insight, humor, and irreverence? One phenomenally entertaining language book. In his waggish yet authoritative book, Ben Yagoda has managed to undo the dark work of legions of English teachers and libraries of dusty grammar texts. Not since School House Rock have adjectives, adverbs, articles, conjunctions, interjections, nouns, prepositions, pronouns, and verbs been explored with such infectious exuberance. Read If You Catch an Adjective, Kill It and: Learn how to write better with classic advice from writers such as Mark Twain (“If you catch an adjective, kill it”), Stephen King (“I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs”), and Gertrude Stein (“Nouns . . . are completely not interesting”). Marvel at how a single word can shift from adverb (“I did okay”), to adjective (“It was an okay movie”), to interjection (“Okay!”), to noun (“I gave my okay”), to verb (“Who okayed this?”), depending on its use. Avoid the pretentious preposition at, a favorite of real estate developers (e.g., “The Shoppes at White Plains”). Laugh when Yagoda says he “shall call anyone a dork to the end of his days” who insists on maintaining the distinction between shall and will. Read, and discover a book whose pop culture references, humorous asides, and bracing doses of discernment and common sense convey Yagoda’s unique sense of the “beauty, the joy, the artistry, and the fun of language.”
If You Were a Noun
Title | If You Were a Noun PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Dahl |
Publisher | Picture Window Books |
Total Pages | 14 |
Release | |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1479553875 |
Life as a word can be wild and a lot of work. Discover how these lexicons live and how they help build sentences. Provides an introduction to nouns and proper nouns. Includes an activity.
If You Were a Verb
Title | If You Were a Verb PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Dahl |
Publisher | Capstone Classroom |
Total Pages | 14 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1404819819 |
Teaches readers to recognize and use verbs.
Hairy, Scary, Ordinary
Title | Hairy, Scary, Ordinary PDF eBook |
Author | Brian P. Cleary |
Publisher | Lerner Digital ™ |
Total Pages | 32 |
Release | 2017-08-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1512479594 |
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Adjectives are words like hairy, scary, cool, and ordinary. Simple, rhyming text and colorful cartoon cats help children expand their vocabularies and gain an appreciation for the rhythm of language in this lighthearted book of rhyming verse. Adjectives like frilly, silly, polka-dotted, fizzy, and spunky are printed in color, and all the words will tickle you pink!
If You Were a Pronoun
Title | If You Were a Pronoun PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy Loewen |
Publisher | Capstone |
Total Pages | 28 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781404826373 |
Fanciful pictures and simple text introduce and illustrate English language pronouns and their function.