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A Strong

Foundation for Grammar Accuracy

Building Language Skills

Grammar Practice

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Grammar Practice is a series of four books developed to help primary learners build a strong foundation for grammar accuracy. This series can be used by teachers in the classroom or by tutors teaching a small group of students.

Grammar Practice

Each unit addresses an aspect of grammar and consists of the following: • clear explanation of grammar points; • meaningful examples of the grammar points used in sentences; • grammar practice and review questions; and • a speaking activity that allows students to apply what they learned;

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• an exercise on constructing sentences; and • a checklist for vocabulary and grammar.

A Strong Foundation for Grammar Accuracy

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Published by Alston Publishing House Pte Ltd 745 Lorong 5 Toa Payoh, #03-07, Singapore 319455 enquiry@alstonpublishinghouse.com www.alstonpublishinghouse.com Š 2013 Alston Publishing House Pte Ltd All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. First published 2013 Second impression 2014 ISBN 978-981-4370-51-6 Publisher: Sim Wee Chee Printed in Singapore

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UNIT 01 Personal Pronouns 1 (Subjective)

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UNIT 02 Personal Pronouns 2 (Possessive)

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UNIT 03 Personal Pronouns 3 (Objective)

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UNIT 04 Nouns and Articles

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UNIT 05 Plural Nouns

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UNIT 06 Demonstrative Pronouns

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UNIT 07 Verbs and Third-Person Singular Verbs 35 UNIT 08 The Interrogative ‘What’ and Pronouns 40

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(It, They)

UNIT 09 Demonstrative Adjectives

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Review Test 1

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UNIT 10 Verbs ‘to be’ in Negative and

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Interrogative Sentences

UNIT 11 Adjectives

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UNIT 12 Adverbs

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UNIT 13 Prepositions

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UNIT 14 Verbs in Negative and Interrogative

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Sentences

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UNIT 15 Modal Verbs (Can / May)

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UNIT 16 Frequently Used Verbal Phrases

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UNIT 17 Imperative Sentences

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UNIT 18 The Interogative ‘How’

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Personal Pronouns 1 (Subjective) I am / You are … : He / She is … :

I am Susie. You are Brian. He is a teacher. She is a smart girl.

We use personal pronouns when we refer to people. ‘I’, ‘you’, ‘he’ and ‘she’ are personal pronouns. Personal pronouns are used with the verb ‘to be’ (‘is’ , ‘are’), which can be shortened into a contraction. For example, we can write ‘I am’ as ‘I’m’, ‘you are’ as ‘you’re’, ‘he is’ as ‘he’s’ and ‘she is’ as ‘she’s’. • • • •

I’m good at Mathematics. You’re good at English. You are my cousins. Ben is my friend. He’s seven years old. Susie is pretty. She’s very kind.

Check!

Fill in each blank with the correct verb ‘to be’. 1. I

12 years old.

2. You

a good doctor.

3. Tom

my best friend.

We are … : They are … :

We are at the beach. We’re happy. They are my grandparents. They’re old.

For a group of people that includes ‘I’, the personal pronoun ‘we’ is used. For a group of people that does not include ‘I’, the personal pronoun ‘they’ is used. We use ‘are’ for both ‘we’ and ‘they’. We can also write ‘we are’ as ‘we’re’ and they are’ as ‘they’re’. • Tom and I are in the same classroom. We are classmates. • Sally and Jill are sisters. They’re very close. Check!

Rewrite the highlighted words as ‘We’ or ‘They’. 1. My parents are in the living room.

are …

2. My brother and I are in the garden.

are …

3. Sally and Tom are a good couple.

are …

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A Match each personal pronoun to the correct verb. 1. I

are

2. You

is

3. He

am

4. She

are

5. They

is

6. We

are

B Replace the underlined words with a word from the box. 1. Mina is my little sister.

(

)

2. David is my English teacher.

(

)

3. Jin and I are close friends.

(

)

4. The boys are on the playground.

(

)

5. Jenny and the lady are cousins.

(

)

6. He and you are brothers.

(

)

We

You

They

He

She They

C Rewrite the underlined words as contractions and complete each sentence. 1. They are happy.

2. We are very hungry.

3. She is my sister Janice.

4. I am good at writing.

5. He is my best friend.

6. You are a clever student.

They’re happy.

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D Fill in each blank with the correct word from the box. she

they

are

am

she

is

My Twin Sisters I

Mark. I have two

sisters. They

twins. So

they have a lot in common. They look almost the same. They talk and smile in the same way. But sometimes are different. Sally, the first twin, is good at singing. is a good singer. But Mary, the second twin, is good at playing the piano. a good pianist. I love my twin sisters. They are lovely.

Fill in each blank with a suitable word or words.

• A: Who are you?

• A: Who is he?

B: I'm Jenny.

B: He is Robert. Tip!

1. A: Who are you?

Robert

B:

Sally

We use ‘Who is / are’ when we ask questions about a person or people.

2. A: Who is she?

B:

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Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

A house has a door. It has a roof, too. One day, a door and a roof

have a fight! “I’m important!” the roof says. “Rain doesn’t come in because of me. I keep the house dry!”

“I’m important!” the door says. “People use me a lot. They go in

and out of the house through me.” They started to fight. Then the walls speak. “You’re both right,” the walls say. “What?” the roof and door ask. “You’re both right,” the walls say again. “You’re both important. The roof is important. The door is important. And we – the walls – are important, too. We hold up the roof.”

“And we (

) important,” say the windows. “The light

comes in because of us.”

“You’re right,” the door and roof say. “We are all important!” 1. Circle all the personal pronouns in the passage. 2. Choose the correct word that can be placed in the brackets in the passage.

a. am

b. are

c. is

lural) + verb

l pronoun (p ingular) + verb Persona Personal pronoun (s I

am

(I’m)

You

are

He

is

(You’re) (He’s)

She

is

(She’s)

We

are

You

are

(We’re) (You’re)

They

are

(They’re)

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Exercises Word Check In each group, circle the word that does not belong there. 1. twin

roof

door

window

2. brother

cousin

Mathematics grandparent

3. teacher

sister

singer

student

4. beach

playground

garden

light

5. pretty

lovely

kind

first

6. talk

fight

speak

say

Grammar Check A

In each question, circle the personal pronoun and underline the verb ‘to be’.

1. I am 12 years old. 2. You are my cousins. 3. He is my best friend. 4. We are at the beach. 5. They are my grandparents. B Fill in each blank with the correct word from the box.

He

We

They

is

1. Ted and Greg are my brothers. 2. Jane

are

are tall.

my best friend. She is pretty. is in the kitchen now.

3. My uncle is a good cook.

are good friends.

4. My sister and I have a lot in common. 5. The girls

in the pool. They are swimming.

Let’s Make Sentences Complete each sentence by rearranging the highlighted words. .

best

my

very

is

kind

1. Thomas is .

2. She 3.

.

are

4.

.

happy

5.

.

cousins

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friend

at the playground We are

very They

boys

The

are my

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