The third book of the Life of Fred Language Arts Series. This series covers English for high school students.

This book includes:

The overall picture in business
math
football, life, and English
Seven parts of speech
Tense is the Latin word for time
Prepositions explained in 30 seconds
A sentence with 16 prepositional phrases
Adjectives
Three kinds of adjectival errors
Four uses of italics
Simplifying the 12 tenses
Positive, comparative, and superlative forms of adjectives
Proper nouns used as adjectives
Suffix
Using the present tense to indicate things that are always true
Direct and indirect objects
Often the least effective way to teach is to lecture
Nominative, objective, and possessive cases
Simile
Schwa
Auxiliary verbs
Elliptical construction
Formal, informal, nonstandard, and general English
Two ways our brains work
The four emotions (glad, sad, mad, and afraid)
Counter words
The three reasons to write
Adverbs
The three parts of mothering
The seven rules for when to double the final consonant when adding the suffix –ed (and simplified down to one rule)
Intersection of sets
Less vs. fewer
Infinitive form of a verb as subject, object, adjective, and adverb
Holloware, flatware, and how to set a table
Prepositions at the end of sentences
Euphemisms and minced oaths
Subjunctive, imperative, and indicative moods
Antecedents of pronouns
Nauseous vs. nauseated
Stream of consciousness writing
Hyphens can change meaning
When to hyphenate compound adjectives (the six rules).