This book features 13 dialogues in which two people discuss everyday topics using common noun clauses with ‘that,’ ‘if/whether,’ and various wh-question words. Through these dialogues, young readers become familiar with verbs that take noun clauses as their objects. In particular, they practice reordering sentences from questions to statements, learning how the placement of the subject and verb changes.

This book helps children understand the two different meanings of ‘if’—one used in conditional sentences and the other in indirect questions.