Milliken's Essential English series for grades 1-8 is designed to enable students to use the English language in both written and oral communications effectively and with ease and confidence. Grade 4 includes 55 pages with a variety of activities to help the student gain skills in using sentence sense, classifying commas, avoiding run-on sentences, understanding paragraph construction, past and present tense verbs, irregular verbs, possessive nouns, writing conversation, using prefixes and suffixes, colons and semi-colons, attempting story writing and more. Answer keys are included.