English Club - Day 4

BASIC RULE OF ENGLISH

A. Sentence Construction (Form of sentences)

The anatomy of a sentence
A sentence is a group of words which starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop (.),
question marks (?), or exclamation mark (!) which contains:

Subjects + Predicates (+ Objects/ Complements)

- A noun - To be - A noun

- A compound noun - Verbs - An adjective

- An adverb

Example : I sleep.
I sleep in the bed.
I am sick.
She is young.
I am playing in the field now.

Parts of a sentence
Nouns names things

Proper noun (subject) the actual names of people or places etc.

Verbs action or ding word

Adjectives describe things or people

Adverb alters the meaning of the verb slightly

Article - a, an indefinite article

- the definite article

Pronoun used instead of a noun to avoid repetition

Conjunction joins words or sentences together

Interjection a short word showing emotion or feeling

Preposition relates one thing to another

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Activity 1 Mention the parts of a sentence you know.
Nouns Proper Noun Verbs Adjectives Adverbs Pronoun

Types of a sentence
Simple sentences contain a single subject and predicate.

Jill reads.
The brown dog barks loudly.

Compound sentences are made up of two or more simple sentences combined

using a combination such as and, or, or but.

The sun is setting in the west and the moon was just rising.
I walked to the shops, but my husband drove.
I might watch the film, or I might visit my friends.

Complex sentences describe more than one thing or idea and have more than
one verb in them.

My mother likes dogs that dont bark.

Activity 2 Make three types of sentences.

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B. Subject-Verb Agreement
Article a vs. an
Article a is used to describe words which begins with consonant alphabets
A bear
A cat

Article an is used to describe words which begins with vocal alphabets

An uniform
An apple

Singular vs. Plural Forms

Singular describes one thing
Plural describes more than two things

Singular Plural There is a cat.

Cat Cats There are two cats.
Mango Mangoes
Butterfly Butterflies To be am, is, are, was, were
Snake Snakes Tense I am a
Subjects
teacher. Present Past
She is a teacher. I Am Was
They are students. You
I was happy. They Are Were
He was sick. We
They are kind. She
He Is Was
Activity 3 Make a simple It sentence
using the correct subject-verb agreement.

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