Milliken's Essential English series for grades 1-8 is designed to enable students to use the English language in both written and oral communications effectively and with ease and confidence. Grade 6 includes lessons on abstract and concrete nouns, verb of action and verb of being, adverbs of place and manner, exclamatory and interrogatory sentences, dictionary skills, using the Thesaurus, bibliography writing, outlines, using the Encyclopdia, and more. Answer keys are included.

Contents: Proper and Common Nouns; Abstract and Concrete Nouns; Plural and Possessive Nouns; Verbs of Action and Being; Regular and Irregular Verbs; Troublesome Verbs; Identifying Adjectives; Adjectives of Comparison; Adjectives and Nouns; Adverbs of Time and Degree; Adverbs of Place and Manner; Adverbs of Comparison; Proper Names and Titles; Capitalization: Place Names; Capitalization: Titles; Commas in a Series; Exclamatory and Interrogatory Sentences; Quotation Marks: Titles; Dictionary Skills; Using the Thesaurus; Bibliographies; Proofreading; Friendly Letters; Writing Outlines; Writing Descriptive Paragraphs; Topic Sentences and Writing Paragraphs; Writing from the Headlines; Pronouns and Antecedents; Subject and Object Pronouns; Pronoun: Singular, Plural, and Possessive; Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases; Prepositional Phrases as Adjectives and Adverbs; Prepositions; Conjunctions; Phrases Used as Adjectives; Phrases Used as Adverbs; Clauses: Adjective, Adverbial and Independent; Compound Subjects, Predicates, and Sentences; Determiners; Subjects of Sentences; Predicates; Reversals, Direct Objects, and Predicate Nominatives; Double Negatives; Redundancies; Homophones; Appositives; Poetry; Roots, Prefixes, Suffixes; Sequencing; Synonyms; Writing Definitions; Using the Library Card Catalogs; Use of the Encyclopedia; Review