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Use the verb is with singular nouns and are with plural nouns. The camel is a desert animal. Vegetables and fruit are healthy foods. Lambs are baby sheep. Kenneth is a lawyer. Singular nouns is Plural nouns are Rex is a clever dog. A duck is a kind of bird. The playground is full of people today. My house is near the school. These questions are too difficult. The balloons are very colorful. Those people are very busy. Dad and Mom are in the kitchen. 85
Use is and are with the word there to say what you can see and hear. There is a castle on the hill. There are some clouds in the sky. There is a wasps’ nest in the tree. There is a fence around the school. There are a lot of books in the library. There are two guards at the gate. Is there any food in the fridge? Are there any apples left on the tree? How much rice is there? There are a few sharks in the bay. There are enough candies for everyone, aren’t there? There are two pigeons on the roof. Grammar Help Learn this contraction: there is = there’s 86
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BASIC ENGLISH Book 1 GRAMMAR
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Three Watson Irvine, CA 92618-2767
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1 What is Grammar? 5 2 The Capital
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2 The Capital Letter The capital le
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3 Nouns Common Nouns Nouns are divi
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These are words for places. They ar
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Exercise 1 Underline the common nou
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The names of countries and their pe
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The days of the week and months of
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The names of festivals, some specia
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Exercise 3 Write C for common or P
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Grammar Help 4 Use a or an before s
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Some plural nouns end in -es. bus g
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What if there is a vowel before the
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If a noun ends in -o, you just add
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Some plural nouns are the same as t
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Exercise 1 Look at the words below.
Page 35 and 36: Collective Nouns Collective nouns a
Page 37 and 38: Exercise Farmer John had several di
Page 39 and 40: Here are some more masculine and fe
Page 41 and 42: Many nouns are used for both males
Page 43 and 44: Exercise 1 Fill in the blanks with
Page 45 and 46: 4 Pronouns A pronoun is a word that
Page 47 and 48: Grammar Help There are three groups
Page 49 and 50: Interrogative Pronouns The words wh
Page 51 and 52: Exercise 1 Draw a line to join each
Page 53 and 54: 5 Adjectives An adjective is a desc
Page 55 and 56: Adjective Endings Adjectives have d
Page 57 and 58: Some adjectives end in -ly. a costl
Page 59 and 60: Kinds of Adjectives There are diffe
Page 61 and 62: Some adjectives tell you the color
Page 63 and 64: Numbers are adjectives, too. They t
Page 65 and 66: Exercise Look at the underlined wor
Page 67 and 68: Use the superlative form of an adje
Page 69 and 70: With some adjectives, you use more
Page 73 and 74: The word the is called the definite
Page 75 and 76: Interrogative Determiners Use the w
Page 79 and 80: Exercise 5 Choose the correct posse
Page 81 and 82: The Simple Present Tense The simple
Page 83 and 84: Exercise 1 Underline the verbs in t
Page 85: Grammar Help Here’s a table to he
Page 91 and 92: Grammar Help am + is are verb ing 4
Page 93 and 94: Exercise 1 Write the present partic
Page 95 and 96: Grammar Help Use has with he, she,
Page 97 and 98: The Present Perfect Tense Use the p
Page 99 and 100: The Simple Past Tense Use the simpl
Page 101 and 102: Grammar Help 4 The simple past tens
Page 103 and 104: Most irregular verbs, however, take
Page 105 and 106: Was and Were The verbs was and were
Page 107 and 108: The Past Progressive Tense Use the
Page 109 and 110: The Future Tense Use the future ten
Page 111 and 112: There are other ways of talking abo
Page 113 and 114: Can and Could The verbs can and cou
Page 115 and 116: Exercise Fill in the blanks with ca
Page 117 and 118: Grammar Help 4 Here’s a table to
Page 119 and 120: Use do not, does not and did not to
Page 121 and 122: Would and Should The verb would is
Page 123 and 124: Exercise Fill in the blanks with wo
Page 125 and 126: Use a plural verb if the subject is
Page 129 and 130: Some adverbs describe the way somet
Page 131 and 132: Some adverbs tell you where somethi
Page 133 and 134: 10 Prepositions A preposition is a
Page 135 and 136: Exercise 1 Underline the prepositio
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The words before, after, as, when,
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12 Interjections An interjection is
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Kinds of Sentences There are four k
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Exercise Look at the groups of word
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Direct and Indirect Objects Some ve
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Positive and Negative Sentences A p
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Wh- questions usually include the v
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14 Punctuation Punctuation marks ar
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Exclamation Point An exclamation po
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4 Follow the same rule when a name
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The apostrophe can also be used to
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