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 3 includes 55 pages of pictures and words to help the student in writing declarative and interrogative sentences, using compound nouns, pronouns, subject and verb tense agreement, contractions, adjective, adverbs, articles, alphabetic order, filling out forms, and more. Answer keys are included.