Grammar Check: Correcting Comma Splices, Sentence Fragments, and Weak Verbs
Grammar Check
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GRAMMAR CHECK 5 1 True or False? Present simple tense needs an –ing form. ___ Past simple tense is made with –ed at the end of regular verb. ___ All continuous tenses need the verb “To Be” and an –ing form. ___ Always”, “usually”, “sometimes” or “never” are adverbs of place. ___ All the verbs can be in a continuous tense. ___ “Continuous” means progression so the action and the speaking are at the same moment. ___ 2 Circle the correct answer: Cosmo hates/is hating dogs. Bella loves/is loving milk Why do you look/are you looking at me like that? Are you remembering/Do you remember my friend Nikki? Listen to me! I’m talking/I talk to you! I’m sorry but I’m not understanding/I don’t understand. What is this? What are you doing/do you do? 3 Complete with the present simple: Harry often ____goes _____ (go) to the park after school. What time _____________________________________ (you /get up) in the morning? My brother ___________________________________ (not eat) meat. Where _____________________________________ (your friends/live)? Beth and Tom ____________________________________ (write) articles for the school magazine. _______________________________________ (your parents/work) on Saturdays? I ______________________________________ (not go) to the theatre very often. 4There is one spelling / orthography mistake in each sentence. Find it and correct it.
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GRAMMAR CHECK 5
1 True or False?
Present simple tense needs an –ing form. ___ Past simple tense is made with –ed at the end of regular verb. ___ All continuous tenses need the verb “To Be” and an –ing form. ___ Always”, “usually”, “sometimes” or “never” are adverbs of place. ___ All the verbs can be in a continuous tense. ___ “Continuous” means progression so the action and the speaking are at the same
moment. ___
2 Circle the correct answer:
Cosmo hates/is hating dogs. Bella loves/is loving milk Why do you look/are you looking at me like that? Are you remembering/Do you remember my friend Nikki? Listen to me! I’m talking/I talk to you! I’m sorry but I’m not understanding/I don’t understand. What is this? What are you doing/do you do?
3 Complete with the present simple:
Harry often ____goes_____ (go) to the park after school. What time _____________________________________ (you /get up) in the morning? My brother ___________________________________ (not eat) meat. Where _____________________________________ (your friends/live)? Beth and Tom ____________________________________ (write) articles for the school
magazine. _______________________________________ (your parents/work) on Saturdays? I ______________________________________ (not go) to the theatre very often.
4 There is one spelling / orthography mistake in each sentence. Find it and correct it.
He loves traveling but he hates the check in in the airports. _________________- I love maths; I have lots of fun with numbers. _________________ Do you usually go to the suppermarket alone? _________________ I want to go to the mississipi river_________________ My friend Molly likes going to the tennis lessons on saturday. _________________ Roal dahl is my favorite writer. I love his books! _________________
GRAMMAR CHECK
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1 True or False?- Present simple is used for habits and routines. ___- “Continuous” means progression so the action and the speaking are at different moments. ___- Only some verbs called static verbs can be in a continuous tense.- I can describe my likes in present continuous.
2 Remember the rule for expressing possession. Then answer.
My friend’s house. = The house of my friend. My friends’ house. = The house of my friends.
Put the apostrophe in the correct place.Example: My grandparents’ house is in the countryside.1 My friends names are Emma and Anna.2 The childrens books are at school.3 Those mens pictures are in the newspaper!4 Phil and Davids rackets are in the wardrobe.5 Charles eyes are green.
3 Complete with the present continuous:- Stop that noise. I ________‘m trying________ (try)to work!- Dave and Brian want to go home. They _____________________________________ (not
have) a good time.- Why are you _____________________________________ (laugh)?- _____________________________________ (that girl/talk) to us?- Vicky _____________________________________ (not study) for her test. - I _____________________________________ (go) to the dentist’s.- Harry is in his room. He _____________________________________ (write) a letter.
