The purpose of this language and grammar book for the seventh grade is to improve the pupil's English. Such improvement means not one achievement but many. It resolves itself in practice into numerous detailed aims and individual lines of instruction, of effort, of exercise, and of progress. In terms of major objectives it includes the attainment of an acceptable measure of (1) grammatical correctness in the pupil's speaking and writing; (2) skill in the pupil's use of sentences; (3) accuracy in the pupil's pronunciation; (4) adequacy and agreeableness in the pupil's vocal utterance; (5) clearness and effectiveness in the pupil's statements; (6) fullness and readiness in the pupil's vocabulary; and (7) proficiency in the pupil's punctuation, paragraphing, and letter form. This book is a practice book--a laboratory manual in the "art" of speaking and writing correct and effective English rather than a textbook in the "science" of grammar.