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Transcript of 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.
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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