The first book of the Life of Fred Language Arts Series. This series covers English for high school students and in Australia it covers:
- Seven billion = 7,000,000,000
- Indentation to begin paragraphs
- Three punctuation marks to end a sentence
- Punctuation began common usage around 1450 (with the invention of the printing press)
- Two to the third power
- Subjunctive mood used much more frequently in German, French, and Latin than in English,
- Postscripts
- Picoseconds
- Six question words (who, when, where, why, what, and how)
- State abbreviations
- Correct way to hold a pencil
- Plurals of words (two cases)
- Irregular plurals
- Finding your calling in life
- Opening and closing salutations
- Only the first word in a closing salutation is capitalized
- Australia is between the Indian and the Pacific oceans
- Silent letters
- Islands vs. continents—the four questions to ask
- Homonyms
- Topology and more