A SENTENCE
( Review)
A SENTENCE IS A GROUP OF WORDS THAT MAKES A COMPLETE THOUGHT OR MEANING.
A simple sentence consists of: SUBJECT + VERB + OBJECT
STATEMENTS:
1) He is reading a book.
2) The boys are playing football.
3) Sarrah has washed three thobes.
4) He will travel to Abha by plane.
5) They have written the lesson.
6) Some children were hunting birds.
7) We should come to school early.
8) Ahmed reads the book.
9) The boys read a book yesterday.
10) Hatim played chess.
11) Hind wrote a letter.
NEGATIVE: Change the statements above to make them negative.
1) He is not reading a book.
2) ______________________________
3) ______________________________
4) ______________________________
5) ______________________________
6) ______________________________
7) ______________________________
8) Ahmed doesn’t read the book.
9) ______________________________
10) ______________________________
11) ______________________________
Ask a YES – NO question about the statements
1) He is reading a book. 1) Is he reading a book?
2) ______________________________ 2) _____________________
3) ______________________________ 3) _____________________
4) ______________________________ 4) _____________________
5) ______________________________ 5) _____________________
6) ______________________________ 6) _____________________
7) ______________________________ 7) _____________________
8) Ahmed reads the book. 8) Does Ahmed read the book?
9) ______________________________ 9) ______________________
10) ______________________________ 10) _____________________
11) ______________________________ 11) _____________________
Some Helping Verbs
(Be) - (am is are) (was were)
(Have) - (have has) (had)
(Do) - (do does) (did)
( can could will would should shall must had to might )
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Thank you for your comment Ms. Sara. Are things like ths helpful?
This is a review on possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns.
I have tried to simplify it for non-native speakers including lower levels. If it is confusing or too difficult, please let me know
I. POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES
Possessive adjectives help us show ownership or possession.
We use possessive adjectives with a noun. The adjective shows who and the noun shows what.
FIRST PERSON POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES: My and Our
This is my football. It is my book.
This is our house. That is our car.
*First person means me or a group I am part of.
The first person possessive adjectives are underlined above.
Which words are the nouns?
Circle the nouns. (These are the words that follow the possessive adjectives).
SECOND PERSON POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVE: Your
This is your shoe. It is your house.
That is your football.
*Second person is not me or us. Second person is you, someone I am talking to.
Circle the second person possessive adjectives and the nouns that they possess.
Is the word your used as the second person possessive adjective because the noun we describe belongs to you? (Yes, we use your because we are talking about something that you possess)
THIRD PERSON POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES: His, Her, and Their
That is his car. This is her house.
It is their school. He has his football. She lost her mobile. They are in their house.
*Third person means we are talking about someone else. For example, I tell you about something that belongs to him, her, or them.
By now you know that the underlined words are the third person possessive adjectives. Can you circle the nouns that these possess? When you have finished circling the nouns we will look at another way to show possession. It is also an easy exercise and it will be on possessive pronouns.
II. POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS
Possessive pronouns replace the possessive adjectives and nouns like we used to show first person, second person and third person possessive. What does this mean? Let’s look at the three sentences below which deal with first person. The possessive pronoun is underlined. Do you see how it can replace the noun and the possessive adjective?
I have a new football. It is my football. It is mine.
Where is the possessive adjective? Circle it. Where is the noun that the adjective possesses? Underline it. Was that easy? Let’s look at some more.
You have a nice car. This is your car. It is yours.
He bought a new laptop. That is his laptop. That is his.
I have a yellow house. This is my house. It is mine.
We have a good football team. This is our team. This is ours.
They have sixty sheep. Those are their sheep. They are theirs.
You have a big horse. That is your horse. That is yours.
Now look at each set of three sentences above. The last sentence of each group will have a possessive pronoun. Underline the possessive pronoun. Another sentence in each group will have a possessive adjective and a noun. Circle them. Which of the sentences are second person? Which are third person? Is there a sentence that shows first person possessive?
There is also a sentence on each line above that has a pronoun. This pronoun is not a possessive pronoun. Can you find these pronouns?
I hope that this was helpful to review these basic forms of showing possession.
*I was asked why this statement: ("A SENTENCE IS A GROUP OF WORDS THAT MAKES A COMPLETE THOUGHT OR MEANING.") is written the way it is.
Let's look at what the sentence is really saying and decide what the object is. After that we need to see if the object is singular or plural.
If we were saying, it is words that make a complete thought, then we would use make instead of makes.
The sentence itself is really talking about a group (a group of words) that makes a complete thought.
So, the answer is that words = plural (more than one word). Group = singular (only one group).
We would have to say words make and we also have to say a group makes.
Since the object of the sentence is a group, make is the correct choice for the verb.
I hope this is clear to everyone now. I appreciate the question.
Has anyone tried some of these exercises?
PAGE 2 REVIEW AND PRACTICE PAGES
CHANGE THE STATEMENT TO A YES / NO QUESTION
1) We must get up early.
2) His sister is a very nice person.
3) Adhan is called out by the muezzin.
4) He saw a very big mosque.
5) They took a tour of Egypt.
6) Your mother was calling you.
7) Smoking can make you die.
8) Ali is studying English.
9) We can use water for many purposes.
10) I thought you were leaving.
CHANGE THE STATEMENT TO A (Wh__) QUESTION (who, what, when, where, why)
1) He drove to Jeddah on Thursday.
2) She is attending the university.
3) We studied geography today.
4) The White Rhinoceros comes from South Africa.
5) The Arabian Oryx is a rare animal.
6) A reservoir can be made with a dam.
7) The water cycle is important to everyone.
8) He cleans the floors at the school.
9) The boys left food wrappers in the library.
10) The English Club will meet tomorrow.