Terban, Marvin

In humorous, alliterative, rhyming couplets, the present and past tenses of thirty irregular verbs are presented.

Illustrates and explains over 100 common English idioms, in categories including animals, body parts, and colors.

Introduces and explains common figures of speech such as metaphors, similes, personification, and hyperbole with guidelines for their use and illustrative examples.

Includes a list of words that rhyme and examples of poetry.

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

A collection of riddles based on homonyms, arranged according to construction and level of difficulty.

Explains the purpose and importance of punctuation and how it is used, covering apostrophes, colons, commas, exclamation points, hyphens, parentheses, slashes, and more.

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

Contains advice on completing research projects, discussing finding information, writing the report, and finishing the project.

Introduces and explains more than 100 expressions which mean something different than the separate words in the group. For example: raise the roof, hold your horses, and carry a tune.