Includes index.

CHAPTER 1: Differences in Naming Things -- Two kinds of Speech Sounds -- Sounds in Syllables -- The Two Parts of a Sentence -- Forming Compound Subjects -- Forming Compound Predicates -- Finding Words in a Dictionary -- Finding Meanings in a Dictionary -- The Right Word-Personal Pronouns -- The Right Word-Verbs With Have -- Review -- Evaluation -- Listening and Reacting to Poetry -- Talking About Humorous Poems -- Writing Limericks -- Rewriting Nursery Rhymes -- Personal Poems -- Wish Poems -- CHAPTER 2: Differences in Pronouncing Words -- Sounds and Letters -- Special Symbols for Sounds -- Nouns -- Nouns in the Subject -- Pronouns in the Subject -- Understanding Dictionary Respellings -- Different Dictionaries, Different Keys -- The Right Word-We/Us -- The Right Word-Verbs With Have -- Review -- Evaluation -- Listening and Reacting to Poetry -- Planning a Magazine -- Making Rebus Puzzles -- Writing Jokes -- Making Up Recipes -- Writing Magazine Columns -- CHAPTER 3: Differences in Common Expressions -- Stress and Word Meaning -- Stress and Sentence Meaning -- Verbs in the Predicate -- The Tense Forms of Verbs -- Regular and Irregular Verbs -- The Tense Forms of Be -- Writing Direct Quotations -- Writing More Direct Quotations -- The Right Word-Verbs With -n't -- The Right Word-Verbs With Have -- Review -- Evaluation -- Listening and Reacting to Poetry -- Pantomime -- Playing Roles in Pantomime -- Playing Roles With Dialogue -- Improvising a Play -- Writing a Script -- CHAPTER 4: Differences in American Dialects -- Pitch and Sentence Meaning -- Juncture and Sentence Meaning -- Two Kinds of Verbs -- Personal Prnouns as Direct Objects -- Indirect Objects -- Joining Words in the Predicate -- Writing Interrupted Quotations -- Writing Dialogue -- The Right Word-Here is/Here are -- The Right Word-Verbs With Have -- Review -- Evaluation -- Listening and Reacing to Poetry -- Talking About Stories -- Story Beginnings -- Story Endings -- Stories With Dialogue -- Picture Stories -- CHAPTER 5: Social Dialects in America -- Clipped Words -- Blends -- Adjectives in the Predicate -- Adjectives With -er and -est -- Adjectives With More and Most -- Adjectives in the Subject -- Using Commas -- More About Using Commas -- The Right Word-Good and Bad -- The Right Word-Verbs With Have -- Review -- Evaluation -- Listening and Reacting to Poetry -- Talking About Point of View -- Two Views of the Same Event -- Nursey Tales From a Different View -- History From Another View -- An Animal's View of People -- CHAPTER 6: Why Learn Standard English? -- Words Have Parts -- Rules for Adding Suffixes -- Adverbs in the Predicate -- Prepositional Phrases in the Predicate -- Prepositional Phrases as Adverbs -- Apostrophes in Possessives -- Apostrophes in Contractions -- The Right Word-Confusing Pairs -- The Right Word-Let/Leave, Lie/Lay -- Review -- Evaluation -- Listening and Reacting to Poetry -- Talking About the Future -- Writing Stories About the Future -- Writing About Your Own Invention -- Making Up a Play About the Future -- Writing Poems About the Future -- CHAPTER 7: Using Slang -- The Prefixes un-, pre-, re-, super- -- The Prefixes semi-, dis,- anti-, mis- -- Combining Sentences-Coordinators -- Combining Sentences-Subordinators -- More About Subordinators -- Capital Letters in Proper Nouns -- Capitalizing and Underlining -- The Right Word-Adjective or Adverb? -- The Right Word-Lend/Borrow, Teach/Learn -- Review -- Evaluation -- Listening and Reacting to Poetry -- Sharing Books -- Advertising a Book -- Writing to an Author -- Interviewing a Book Character -- Acting Out a Scene From a Book -- CHAPTER 8: Jargon -- The Suffixes -er, and -or -- The Suffixes -ful, and -less -- Forming Relative Clauses With Who -- Forming Relative Clauses With Which -- Forming Relative Clauses With That -- Capitalizing Names and Titles -- Abbreviating Names and Titles -- The Right Word-Negative Words -- The Right Word-Sit/Set, Rise/Raise -- Review -- Evaluation -- Listening and Reacting to Poetry -- Using an Encyclopedia -- Summarizing Encyclopedia Articles -- Finding More Information -- Taking Notes -- Notes From Two Sources -- Putting on a Television Quiz Show

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