VOCABULARY STRUCTURE and GRAMMAR
What? Vocabular Words y
Examples Car, boy, apple, accident, party etc
Structure Order of red car, is going, look words here, at the door
Grammar Part of Speech
Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs etc
Forming Sentences
Subject + Verb (SV)
SUBJECT Suzie Dogs A snake VERB sleeps. cried. bark. hisses. glides.
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Subject + Verb + Object (SVO)
SUBJECT I Samy He Encik Amin and Puan Rokiah
The boys and girls
VERB TO BE am is is are
are
OBJECT a girl. my friend. his uncle. English teachers.
classmates.
Subject + Verb+ Complement (SVC)
subject She They I The cat verb is are am is adjective happy. sad. tall. hungry.
SAMPLE SAMPLE3a 3
SUBJECT
I Teck Hooi Juana Encik Amin and Puan Rokiah
VERB
am is is are
ADJECTIVE & ADJECTIVE OBJECT
a happy girl. happy. honest. an honest boy. a young young and and beautiful. beautiful lady. very hardworking. hardworking teachers.
SAMPLE 4
SUBJECT
My mother He I They
VERB
is going lives went swim
PLACE
to the market. in Sungai Petani. to the post office. in the pool.
SAMPLE 5
SUBJECT TIME I Every day My parents Yesterday Alicia Last night The Just baby now SUBJECT VERB TIME VERB & details come every day. I go to school. went my parents yesterday. went shopping. dreamt Alicia cried the baby last met night. her cousin. just now. cried loudly.
SAMPLE 6
SUBJECT VERB
ADJECTIVE/ OBJECT/ADVERB/ PLACE
TIME
They He I They
were plays went are
at school
yesterday.
football at school every afternoon. to the post office this morning. happy children today.
Remember, we can also start with time. E.g.
Yesterday, they were atthe school. Every This morning, afternoon, I went he plays to football. post office. Today, they are happy.
PRONOUNS VERB QUANTIFIERS
NOUN
ARTICLES
CONJUNCTIONS
ADJECTIVES & ADVERBS PREPOSITIONS
PUNCTUATIONS
Typical mistakes :
Mrs Lee Noun I
read verb drank
carefully adverb quickly
the recipe. direct object a cup of tea.
1. Never put an adverb between a verb and its direct object
carefully
Mrs. Lee
read
the recipe
Carefully, Mrs. Lee read the recipe. Mrs. Lee carefully read the recipe. Mrs. Lee read carefully the recipe. Mrs. Lee read the recipe carefully.
2. Adverb of frequency often go between the subject and the verb. E.g. We always go to Alor Setar on Saturday 3. Adverbs of frequency are always after the verb to be. [Link] is usually hungry. 4. Adverb of frequency should always go between two auxiliaries. E.g. I have never been to Melaka. We have seldom seen such beautiful flowers.
Exercise : Move the adverbs of frequency in these sentences if they do not follow the rules on good style. 1. I get up usually at 7.00 a.m. 2. She is sometimes late for work. 3. John never has been to London. 4. We go often to the cinema. 5. I always have biscuits with my tea. 6. They always are happy to see you. 7. I always have been a keen gardener. 8. I have seldom seen such beautiful flowers. 9. You should have never told him. 10. I constantly am learning new words.
ADJECTIVES 5. Word order of adjectives when you use more than one : Sheila has a house .
big beautiful wooden
Opinion
Size & Shape
Age
Colour
Origin
Material
(OpShACOM)
Sheila has a beautiful big wooden house.
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Exercise : Correct the word order of these sentences so that they follow the rules on good style. Beware! Not all the sentences need to be corrected.
1. I bought a beautiful glass old bowl. 2. He drives a Malaysian new car. 3. They live in a big old wooden house on the beach. 4. I go to work in a red big bus. 5. She wore a beautiful blue woolen jumper. 6. It was a old wonderful song from the 1980s. 7. We had a picnic in a green large field. 8. We sat on horrible plastic orange small chairs. 9. Have you seen that British fabulous new film? 10. Please take off your old smelly shoes.
6. Adjectives of the same type should be separated by and. E.g. She wore a red and white hat. The red, white and blue flag was flapping in the wind. Exercise :
1. I have a lovely black white jumper. 2. The sofa was blue beige green. 3. The tea was nice hot. 4. He likes Malaysian Indonesian poetry. 5. We had some delicious chocolate vanilla ice cream. 6. He has got a fabulous new car. 7. She wore a red white silk gown. 8. They bought a beautiful large red green carpet.
