Learn Basic Structure of Grammar
To provide in understanding the basic composition of grammar.
Vowel and Consonant
When we different sounds. Those sounds make up the words we say. If we listen carefully, we will know how to say the speech correctly.
Words are made up of consonant and vowels
Consonant are made up of letters b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, z.
Vowels are made up of the letters a, e, I, o, u.
Consonant and Vowels sounds differ from each other. We must be careful to say them correctly. When we listen carefully, we will know the right way to say them.
Intonation
When you speak, your voice goes up and down. This is what we call Intonation.
Exercise:
Read the sentence below. When “up” try to make your voice go higher and higher. When you read word “down” try to make your voice go lower and lower.
When we speak, our voice goes up and down. This is what we call Intonation.
- Most of the time, when we ask questions, our voice goes up. This when the answer to our question is either “yes” or “no.” but when the question is not answered by “yes” or “no,” the voice does not go up.
When we answer the question, our voice goes down or stay the same.
Noun
Nouns are names of person, places, animals, or things.
- Naming Singular Noun
- A singular noun is one thing, place, or person
ex:
* a flower * an arrow
* a barroom * an envelope
* a bird * an ice cream
Do you see the word a and an before the name of each object. This is called an article.
- Articles are words that help us name singular noun
the article a means one
A is used before a noun that begins with a consonant
The article An also means one
An is used before a noun that begin with a vowel
- Pointing Singular Noun
We use words to name a noun that is near or far as we speak
We use This is when naming a noun that is near us
We use That is when naming a noun that is far from us
- Naming Two or More Nouns
- add -s to the noun when there is more than one
ex:
Ball - Balls
Boy - Boys
- Pointing Two or More Nouns
- use These are to name two or more persons, places, animals, or things that are near the person speaking.
- use Those are to name two or more persons, places, animals, or things that are far from the person speaking
Pronouns
I AM A STUDENT
“I” is a pronoun. A pronoun is a word that takes place of a noun. In the sentence, you replace your name with “I.”
- use He when talking about a man or a boy
- use She when talking about a woman or a girl
- use It when talking about a place, animal, or thing
- use They when talking about two or more persons, places, animals, or things.
- use We when talking about two or more persons including the person speaking
Reviews:
We can use other words to take place of noun. These words are called pronouns.
These pronouns are I, You, He, She, It, They, We
Sentence
- A sentence is made up of words. Sentences make use of punctuation marks. Punctuation marks are found in the middle or at the end of the sentence.
= Using Punctuation Marks
- Period – is a dot (.) found at the end of a sentence. The period is used when writing a declarative sentence
- Question Marks – a question marks (?) is place at the end of a question. The question mark has a hook on top and period at the bottom
- An Exclamation Point – an exclamation point (!) is place at the end of a sentence. It is used when the sentence is supposed to read very loud
- Comma – A comma (,) is another punctuation mark seen in some sentences. A comma is placed in the middle of the sentence and not at the end. It is used to separate three or more words in a series.
A comma look like a dot with a hook at the bottom
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Verbs
Verbs – are action words
Read the list of Verbs below:
Sleep Sing Iron talk pray push
Draw dance drive sew cook fly
Write laugh open walk drink call
Sit plant read smile sweep run
Climb jump
- Verbs in Simple Present Form
Ex:
The Girl sweeps the floor
“sweep” is the action word
“sweep” is a verb
→ add –s to the verb when there is only one person, animal or thing doing the action.
→do not add –s to the verb if there are two or more person, animal or thing.
Exercise:
Choose the correct verb for each sentence
- Siony (sell, sells) fresh fruit in the market
Ans: sells
- Manuel and lolit (drink, drinks) milk every day
Ans: drink
- When an Action is happening in the Present
→ add –ing to the verb
ex:
I am eating a banana ( eat + ing = eating)
- Verbs in Simple Pas Form
- when an action is already happen the verb is in the past tense
- we add –d or -ed to the action word
Read aloud the sentence below.
→ study how the verbs are used in the past tense form
→ study how –d or –ed is added to the action word
ex:
- zenaida borrowed lito’s book (borrow + ed= borrowed)
- it rained very hard last night( rain + ed= rained)
Adjective
- An adjective is a word that describes a person, animal, place, or thing
Read the list of Adjectives below
Tall fat baby beautiful short big
Long small thin hot thick
Cold ugly
Let us use the Adjective in the sentence
- The water is hot
“hot” describes water
- I have a small toy.
“small” describes the toy
Preposition
- Some of the words we use are called prepositions.
A Preposition is a word used with a noun or pronoun to form a phrase.
A Phrase is a group of words.
Read the Sentence below. See how the preposition is used.
→ The ball is under the chair
“under” is the preposition
→ the boy is sitting on the mat
“on” is the preposition
→ the hat is in the box
“in” is the preposition
Below are some Prepositions:
Under above across on in below
Beside at over through around
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