By Brian P. Cleary
ISBN-10: 0822567091
ISBN-13: 9780822567097
ISBN-10: 1580136958
ISBN-13: 9781580136952
One ebook is rarely sufficient to discover the wide variety of wonderful adjectives! The loopy cats convey a great deal of extra examples to demonstrate the effective energy of adjectives to explain the glorious global round us--and our fantastic imaginations. Brian P. Cleary's playful verse and Brian Gable's comical cats flip conventional grammar classes on finish. each one adjective is outlined in colour for simple id. learn this booklet aloud and proportion the pride of the sense--and nonsense--of phrases.
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Brian Gable is the illustrator of several Words Are CATegoricalTM books, as well as the Math Is CATegorical™ series. Mr. Gable also works as a political cartoonist for the Globe and Mail newspaper in Toronto, Canada, where he lives with his children. A. W ords Are CATegorical books TM Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely: What Is an Adverb? Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What Is an Adjective? : What Are Homonyms and Homophones? I and You and Don't Forget Who: What Is a Pronoun? A Lime, a Mime, a Pool of Slime: More about Nouns A Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink: What Is a Noun?
To Root, to Toot, to Parachute: What Is a Verb? Under, Over, By the Clover: What Is a Preposition? : A Measuring Guide The Mission of Addition OTHER BOOKS BY BRIAN P.
Mr. Gable also works as a political cartoonist for the Globe and Mail newspaper in Toronto, Canada, where he lives with his children. A. W ords Are CATegorical books TM Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely: What Is an Adverb? Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What Is an Adjective? : What Are Homonyms and Homophones? I and You and Don't Forget Who: What Is a Pronoun? A Lime, a Mime, a Pool of Slime: More about Nouns A Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink: What Is a Noun? Pitch and Throw, Grasp and Know: What Is a Synonym?
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