english grammar part 1

Verb: The part of speech that expresses action, or state of being.

Subject: The part which names the person or thing we are speaking about in a

sentence.

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Subjects and Verbs

Subject and Verb Agreement

The Verb agrees with the Subject in Number and

Person

E.g. Sam and Harry are friends.

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Subjects and Verbs

Subjects and Verbs

Harry Potter is an interesting book.

Every boy and girl is ready to run for the

marathon.

Harry

Potter

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Objective

Identify the mechanisms to use articles appropriately.

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Articles

Articles: are Determiners.

Types Of Articles

Indefinite – A / AN

Definite – THE

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Articles

Indefinite Article (A)

A dog is a faithful animal.

A man is known by the company he keeps

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Articles

Indefinite Article (AN)

An Apple

An Honest Man

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Articles

Definite Article ( THE)

Lets go to the Golf Club.

The Solar System.

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Articles

Lets have fun

Identify articles in the songs

(Clips to be added)

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Articles

Objective

Identify the correct usage of Tense in a sentence

Identify the correct usage of Tense while speaking in English

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Tenses

The Tense of a verb shows the time of action or event.

Verb tenses are tools that English speakers use to express time in language.

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Tenses

There are three main Tenses:

Present Tense: a verb that refers to the present time. E.g. I write a letter.

Past Tense: a verb that refers to the past time.

E.g. I wrote a letter.

Future Tense: a verb that refers to the future time. E.g. I will write a letter.

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Tenses

Simple Present Simple Past

Future ContinuousPast ContinuousPresent Continuous

Future PerfectPast PerfectPresent Perfect

Present Perfect Continuous Past Perfect Continuous Future Perfect Continuous

Simple Future

I study English everyday.

IS / AM / ARE + verb in ING

I am studying English now.

WAS / WERE + verb in INGI was studying English when you called

yesterday.

HAS / HAVE + P.PI have studied English in several different

countries.

HAS / HAVE + BEEN + verb in INGI have been studying English for five years.

Two years ago, I studied English in England.

HAD + P.P.I had studied a little English before I

moved to the U.S.

HAD + BEEN + verb in INGI had been studying English for five years

before I moved to the U.S.

I will be studying English next year.

SHALL / WILL + BE + verb in INGI will be studying English when you arrive

tonight.

SHALL / WILL + BE + verb in INGI will be studying English when you arrive

tonight.

SHALL / WILL + HAS / HAVE + BEEN + verb in ING

I will have been studying English for over two hours by the time you arrive.

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Tenses

Fun Time

Group B write a story in the Past

Group C write a story in the Future

Group A write a story in the Present

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Objective

To aid formulating appropriate questions.

To learn to convert ideas or sentences into questions.

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Question Tags

Question tags are a grammatical structure in which a statement or

idea is turned into a question by adding an interrogative fragment

( tag ).

Their pattern is ‘auxiliary + n’t + subject’, if the statement is ‘positive’ and

‘auxiliary + subject’, if the statement is ‘negative’.

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Question Tags

E.g.

Positive Sentence

He has left already, hasn’t he?

Andrew came to school yesterday, didn’t he?

Negative Sentence

He doesn’t like tea, does he?

John can’t speak English fluently, can he?

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Question Tags

Lets have some fun

Peanut Butter

New York

Madonna

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Question Tags

Direct And Indirect Speech

Objective

To understand the two ways of relating and quoting what someone has

said.

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In Direct Speech the original speaker’s exact words are given and indicated

by quotation marks (“ ”)

E.g. “I don’t know what to do,” said Dean.

In Indirect Speech the exact meaning of the speaker’s words are given, but

the exact words are not directly quoted.

E.g. Dean said that he didn’t know what to do.

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Direct And Indirect Speech

Some pointers to convert Direct Speech into Indirect

Speech and vice – versa.

If the main verb is in the past tense, the present tense verbs in that sentence

must be changed to past tense.

First and second person pronouns must be changed to third person

pronouns.

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Direct And Indirect Speech

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Direct And Indirect Speech

Objective

To create awareness that using the Passive Voice

sounds more objective.

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Voice

Active Voice: The verb is active, when the subject (agent) does the action (verb) to something (object).

E.g. The doctor wrote a prescription.

Passive Voice: The verb is passive,

when the subject takes the action upon itself.

E.g. The prescription was written by the doctor.

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Voice

The refreshments are going to be

prepared by Karen.

That skyscraper was built in 1934.

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By whom was this done?

Jane is helped by Fred.

Passive Voice

Karen is going to prepare the

refreshments.

They built that skyscraper in 1934.

Ratna teaches us grammar.

Who did this?

Fred helps Jane.

Active Voice

The refreshments are going to be

prepared by Karen.

That skyscraper was built in 1934.

Grammar is taught to us by Ratna.

By whom was this done?

Jane is helped by Fred.

Passive Voice

Karen is going to prepare the

refreshments.

They built that skyscraper in 1934.

Ratna teaches us grammar.

Who did this?

Fred helps Jane.

Active Voice

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Voice