Terban, Marvin

Thirty common English phrases, such as "a chip off the old block" and "cry over spilled milk" are illustrated and explained.

An alphabetical listing of common figures of speech, along with their definitions and origins.

Shows children how to increase their vocabulary.

Discusses irregular verbs, their tenses, and how to use them, and provides full conjugations of one hundred commonly used verbs.

A resource on sentence building; the parts of speech, including nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections; and style and usage, containing examples, lists, and brief explanations designed to help in editing one's writing.

Shows children how to increase their vocabulary.

Traces the origins of more than one hundred eponyms, revealing little-known facts about common words that were derived from the names of people or places.

Contains sixty humorously illustrated riddles whose answers are pairs of homonyms, words that sound the same but have different meanings.

A collection of over seventy riddles using homographs, words that are spelled the same but differ in meaning and pronunciation.