The queen of numbers has turned her attention to words. Combining colourful diagrams and illustrations with step-by-step instructions, this makes English easier to fathom. -- Natasha Harding * The Sun *

Carol Vorderman, one of Britain's best known and loved TV personalities, feels passionately about the value of education. Carol joined forces with DK in 1999 to become DK's Education Champion and has worked with them to build the bestselling Made Easy Series which includes Maths, English and Science.

1: Foreword
2: Why learn the rules?
3: Spoken and written language
4: English around the world
5: Grammar
1: The purpose of grammar
2: Parts of speech
3: Nouns
4: Plurals
5: Adjectives
6: Comparatives and superlatives
7: Articles
8: Determiners
9: Pronouns
10: Number and gender
11: Verbs
12: Adverbs
13: Simple tenses
14: Perfect and continuous tenses
15: Participles
16: Auxiliary verbs
17: Irregular verbs
18: Verb agreement
19: Voices and moods
20: Phrasal verbs
21: Conjunctions
22: Prepositions
23: Interjections
24: Phrases
25: Clauses
26: Sentences
27: Compound sentences
28: Complex sentences
29: Using clauses correctly
30: Managing modifiers
31: Commonly misused words
32: Negatives
33: Relative clauses
34: Idioms, analogies and figures of speech
35: Colloquialisms and slang
36: Direct and indirect speech
6: Punctuation
1: What is punctuation?
2: Full stops and ellipses
3: Commas
4: Other uses of commas
5: Semi-colons
6: Colons
7: Apostrophes
8: Hyphens
9: Inverted commas
10: Question marks
11: Exclamation marks
12: Brackets and dashes
13: Bullet points
14: Numbers, dates and time
15: Other punctuation
16: Italics
7: Spelling
1: Why learn to spell?
2: Alphabetical order
3: Vowel sounds
4: Consonant sounds
5: Syllables
6: Morphemes
7: Understanding English irregularities
8: Roots
9: Prefixes and suffixes
10: Hard and soft letter sounds
11: Words ending in -e or -y
12: Words ending in -tion, -sion or -ssion
13: Words ending in -able or -ible
14: Words ending in -le, -el, -al or -ol
15: Single and double consonant words
16: The "i before e except after c" rule
17: Capital letters
18: Silent letters
19: Compound words
20: Irregular word spellings
21: Homonyms, homophones and homographs
22: Confusing words
23: Other confusing words
24: Abbreviations
25: British and American spellings
26: More British and American spellings
8: Communication skills
1: Effective communication
2: Picking the right words
3: Making sentences interesting
4: Planning and research
5: Paragraphing
6: Genre, purpose and audience
7: Reading and commenting on texts
8: Layout and presentational features
9: Writing to inform
10: Newspaper articles
11: Letters and e-mails
12: Writing to influence
13: Writing to explain or advise
14: Writing to analyse or review
15: Writing to describe
16: Writing from personal experience
17: Writing a narrative
18: Writing for the Web
19: Writing a script
20: Re-creations
21: Checking and editing
22: The spoken word
23: Debates and role plays
24: Writing a speech
25: Presentation skills
8: Reference
1: Reference - Grammar
2: Reference - Punctuation
3: Reference - Spelling
4: Reference - Communication skills
5: Glossary
6: Index
7: Acknowledgements