An alphabetical listing of common figures of speech, along with their definitions and origins. Cat got your tongue? Penny for your thoughts? Come again? Every day, idioms bring color to our speech. Since they don't really mean what they say, idioms can stump even the native Engli...
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A practical guide to grammar and usage, covering such topics as parts of speech, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and idioms.
Provides a source for proper spelling, spelling rules, and a "misspeller's dictionary," in a volume that includes more than fifteen thousand words and that offers frequently used proper nouns for school reports.
Introduces and explains common figures of speech such as metaphors, similes, personification, and hyperbole with guidelines for their use and illustrative examples.
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.
A collection of original riddles, each using a homonym as the answer : bizarre-bazaar, knight-night, and similar pairs of words.
Discusses irregular verbs, their tenses, and how to use them and provides full congugation of the 100 most commonly used verbs.
Thirty common English phrases, such as "a chip off the old block" and "cry over spilled milk" are illustrated and explained.
A collection of progressively harder to guess palindrome riddles.
Offers an abundant cache of ideas about using words and wordplay to create engaging riddles and jokes.
Explores the plural forms of 100 irregular nouns such as mouse/mice in humorous rhymes and tongue twisters.
A collection of riddles based on homonyms, arranged according to construction and level of difficulty.
Traces the origins of more than 100 eponymous words--words derived from the names of people or places. For example "sandwich" is an eponymous word from the eponym, Earl of Sandwich, the man who invented sandwiches.
The developing writer's handiest source of correctly spelled words and spelling rules, along with sentences to distingish among homophones and a "bad-speller's dictionary" to help with tricky initial sounds.
An alphabetical listing of common figures of speech, along with their definitions and origins.