FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING

PART 1 Editing Advice

1. Use the -s form when the subject is he, she, it, or a singular noun. The president live in the White House. s ^ 2. Use the base form after doesn’t. live

Sara doesn’t lives in Washington. 3. Don’t forget do/does in a wh- question. do

How people celebrate New Year’s Eve?^ 4. Use the correct word order in a question. don't youWhy you don’t like to travel? 5. Use the correct spelling for the -s form. hurries

She hurrys to the train in the morning. 6. Use the correct negative form. doesn’t

He not like to travel by car. 7. Put frequency words in the correct place. am never

I never am bored on a vacation. I alwaysAlways I travel in the summer. 8. Don’t use be with another verb to form the simple present. I

I’m like to visit national parks.

9. Use correct question formation for meaning and cost. does pedestrian mean What means pedestrian? do the tickets cost

How much cost the tickets?

10. Use the correct preposition. on

What do you do at New Year’s Eve?

PART 2 Editing Practice

Some of the shaded words and phrases have mistakes. Find the mistakes and correct them. If the shaded words are correct, write C.

I C

I’m from Dallas, but I’m live in Chicago now. Chicago has many tourist attractions. My sister

sometimes visit me in the summer. She and her husband have two small children, Sophie and Carter.

The kids are always happy to visit me. I’m take the kids many places. They really likes the zoo. They

want always to see the monkeys. Carter likes the snakes too, but Sophie doesn’t likes them. She crys if we

goes to the snake house. Carter always says, “Why you don’t like snakes? They’re so interesting.”

The kids always want to go to the Museum of Science. They find many interesting things to do there,

but it’s very expensive. My sister sometimes asks me, “How much cost the tickets?” but I doesn’t tell her. I

want to pay for everyone because they’re my guests.

My brother-in-law enjoys baseball, so I usually take him to a baseball game. I not like baseball very

much, but I go with him anyway. I’m always bored at baseball games.

Chicago is a great city for tourists. We have a good time when my sister’s family come to visit.

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WRITING TIP

Before you start writing, you should think about different ways to address a topic. This is called brainstorming. If you are writing about an interesting place in your city or another city you know, for example, consider three different places before responding to the prompt. Ask and answer questions to gather information about each place, such as:

Where is this place? Why is it interesting? Are there any other places like this in the world? The answers to these questions will help you choose one place to write about.

PART 3 Write

Read the prompts. Choose one and write one paragraph about it. 1. Write about an interesting place in your city or in another city you know about. 2. Write about how you celebrate New Year’s Eve.

PART 4 Edit

Reread the Summary of Unit 2 and the editing advice. Edit your writing from Part 3.

UNIT 3

Singular and Plural Nouns There Is/There Are Articles

The colorful houses of Reitdiephaven, a new neighborhood in Groningen, the Netherlands

HOUSING

Home is the nicest word there is.

LAURA INGALLS WILDER