Book excerpt: 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 2 includes 55 pages of pictures and words to help the student to identify sentences, subjects and predicates, verb tenses, adjectives, adverbs, capitalization, commas, parts of a correspondence letter, envelopes, paragraphs, and more. Answer keys are included.