Plain English

A practical course aimed at adult and working-class learners teaches the fundamentals of English by emphasizing underlying principles rather than memorized rules. It systematically treats parts of speech, nouns and verbs, verb inflection and time forms, participles and infinitives, pronouns, modifiers, prepositions, conjunctions, clauses, sentence building and analysis, capitalization and punctuation, and an extensive spelling section on syllabification, derivation, prefixes, suffixes, homonyms and common errors. Plain-language explanations and exercises encourage regular study, concentration and self-reliance, with the goal of improving fluency, correctness and confidence in both spoken and written expression.