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. E.g.He 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.