Action Words: Verbs

Getting to Grips With Grammar

by Anita Ganeri

This book examines verbs, explaining what they are and how they are used. The text is accompanied by bright, colorful sentence diagrams designed to clarify basic grammatical concepts, while engaging photographs and eye-catching illustrations make the book visually appealing to young readers.

32 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Anita Ganeri is a highly experienced author of children’s information books, specialising in religion, India/Asia, multiculturalism, geography, biography and natural history. She became a freelance writer after working at Walker Books (as foreign rights manager) and Usborne Publishing (as an editor). Since then, she has written over 300 titles, including the best-selling Horrible Geography series for Scholastic. The series won the Geographical Association Silver Award in 1999 and was cited as being ‘an innovation that all geographers will applaud’. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society where she conducts most of her research for the books.

Reviews

[Barbara · Rating 2 out of 5]

New writers are always looking for words to use in their writing. This book provides an explanation of what grammar is and then offers a brief tutorial on verbs, including verb tense and active and passive verbs. There are sentence examples and photographs that help young writers understand this important part of speech. Although brief, the book covers a lot of ground. I'd have liked even more examples of verbs being used in sentences.