Part of a series designed to provide young people with home resource books, and intended for students in the middle and upper grades, this book can be used to find quick answers to questions about the use of the English language, to gain a better understanding of sentence structure, and to study or review a grammatical principle. Chapters in the book discuss sentences, nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, function words (prepositions and conjunctions), more about verbs, more about sentences, and word structure. Each section of the book offers a series of exercises that clarifies and puts into practice the grammatical principles of that section. A punctuation guide concludes the book. A section with answers to exercises and practice activities is appended. (SR)