"Crushing national Debt? Climate Change? No: the greatest danger to our way of life is the decline of grammar. Thus preaches the inimitable Mr Gwynne as he shows us the way out of this sorry state. "Grammar is the science of using words rightly, leading to thinking rightly, leading to deciding rightly, without which-as both common sense and experience show-happiness is impossible. Therefore, happiness depends at least partly on good grammar." So writes...

"Thousands of definitions, easy-to-use pronunciation system, related words and homophones."--Cover.

This book examines verbs, explaining what they are and how they are used. The text is accompanied by bright, colorful sentence diagrams designed to clarify basic grammatical concepts, while engaging photographs and eye-catching illustrations make the book visually appealing to young readers.

Labeled illustrations of a cat in various situations introduce basic words that are opposites, including "up" and "down," "open" and "shut, " and "fast" and "slow."