Are you ready for the Comma Splice?

Do you think learning grammar is boring?

Maybe it's time to try a new grammar book.

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Are you ready for Double Negative?

Watch your back!

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Are you ready for the Run-On Sentence?

It looks like someone else is in a big hurry for school to start.

Team up with Super Grammar, and you'll be able to run circles around the Run-On and the rest of the Sabotage Squad.

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Are you ready for the Fragment?

Look who's itching to get back into the classroom.

It looks like the Fragment is ready for the new school year to begin, and that can only spell trouble for your sentences.

Well, there's one sure way to protect your sentences from this sneaky member of the Sabotage Squad: Get ready for back-to-school with Super Grammar!

See you in class!

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We are listening to you!

Hello friends,

We'd like to take a moment to thank the great many of you who have taken the time to let us know (with either emails, comments, or facebook posts) that you're kids and students are learning how to protect their sentences with Super Grammar.

We love hearing that Super Grammar is making a positive difference in the battle between good and bad grammar, and we always appreciate it whenever anybody takes some time out of their busy schedule just to share this good news with us.

These messages are huge bright-spots in our day, and we're always happy to receive them. So once again, to all the parents, students, homeschoolers and teachers who have made the super effort to contact us—thank you!

We'd also like to thank you all for the great feedback in your messages and reviews. Getting this feedback lets us know if we're on the right track. And so far, according to your feedback, Super Grammar is heading in the right direction.

But even though you've let us know that we're on the right track, you've also let us know that Super Grammar still has some work to do. Along with all the kind praise and positive reviews of our Super Grammar book, we have also noticed that there are two questions that keep coming up:

1. "Do you have any workbooks?"
2. "Do you have any posters of the Super Grammar characters?"

Currently, we don't have workbooks or posters to supplement our Super Grammar book. But here's the good news: we think workbooks and posters are a great idea! And now, thanks to your feedback, we will be taking steps toward making them happen.

We don't have a release date (or even a schedule for them) yet, but we want you to know that we are definitely listening to you! And we'll be doing our best to get workbooks and posters moving forward as soon as we can.

Until then, please keep those emails and comments coming our way! They keep us motivated; they're always appreciated; and your input truly makes a difference.

And as always, thank you for teaming up with us!

Sincerely,
The Super Grammar Team

The Modal Helping Verb!

The Modal Helping Verb is another faithful sidekick to The Verb, and this helpful Verb Team member has the power to modify the Main Verb in order to help a sentence express possibility, necessity, or expectation.

Here’s an example:

I may spare your planet.

The main verb of this sentence, “spare,” is being assisted by a modal helping verb, “may,” to help it express possibility.

Without the aid of the modal helping verb, “may,” the main verb of this sentence would only be able to express a basic state of action, “I spare.”

But with the modal helping verb’s assistance, the main verb, “spare,” can make the shift into expressing the possibility of the action, “I may spare.”

The chart below is a list of modal helping verbs and how they’re used to help the main verb of a sentence.

Modal Helping Verbs
Help to express possibility	can, could, may, might
Help to express necessity	must, ought
Help to express expectation	will, would, shall, should

SUPER POWER: 

The Modal Helping Verb has the power to help The Verb express possibility, necessity, or expectation. 

SUPER EXAMPLES: 

1) 

I can crush you.

can: helping the main verb, "crush," show possibility. 

2) 

I must defuse this bomb.

must: helping the main verb, "defuse," show necessity.

3) 

I shall protect you.

shall: helping the main verb, "protect," show expectation.

The Verb Team!

Hello friends,

Inside Super Grammar you are introduced to the Verb Team, and you learn that this energetic team consists of two members: The Verb and the Primary Helping Verb.

The Verb is the team leader, and she uses her amazing energy to empower sentences with her power of expression. This power allows our sentences to express either a state of action or a state of being. (See pages 60-71 in Super Grammar.)
 

The Primary Helping Verb is the Verb's sidekick. She faithfully assists the Verb in performing complex tasks within a sentence, such as changing tenses, making positive or negative statements, and asking questions. (See pages 72-75 in Super Grammar.)

After reading about these two sentence-superheroes, you'll quickly come to understand that the members of the Verb Team are key players in our sentences, and that they are constantly working to give our sentences all the power they need to fully and properly express themselves in many different and complex ways.

Now, if that sounds like it's a very big job for just two Verb Team members to handle, well, you're right—it is.

But fear not, citizens, for the Verb Team does have more help!

Her name is the Modal Helping Verb, and we'll be introducing you to her in our very next Super Grammar post.

Cheers!
The Super Grammar Team