The Grammar section is targeted at learners interested in learning English grammar at the middle elementary level. It can be used as a basic course and as supplementary material for teaching and learning. Learners may choose to use this book with or without the guidance of instructors.
There are a total of 24 units relevant to this level of learning. There are summarized instructional notes at the beginning of each unit. The notes function as a review guide. There are interesting illustrations to illustrate grammar and examples of grammatical applications
Within, learners will see that each unit is accompanied by exercises tailored to teach or to emphasize a specific teaching point. The exercises are written in different formats to exercise the mind and to fine-tune understanding of the grammatical concepts. In this book, a combination of free-response questions and cloze passages are written. As grammar forms an integral part in the learning of the English language, it is therefore, strongly recommended that learners do all the exercises to familiarize themselves with each grammatical unit.
The Vocabulary section consists of 10 units that cover all the different aspects of vocabulary that may be tested in the examination (Singapore syllabus), and exercises that engage the thinking abilities of learners.
<em>Words for the Week</em> of each unit is specially designed to acquaint learners with new words and their meanings and strives to expand their vocabulary. <em>Using the New Words</em> helps learners to see how these new words are used in sentences. These two sections complement each other. Learners should use the dictionary to help them.
<em>Editing</em> teaches learners to identify words that have spelling or grammatical errors and to correct them accordingly.
<em>Word Expansion</em> seeks to familiarise learners with the root word and words expanded from that root word so that they can quickly decipher their related meanings. This is yet another effective method of increasing the learner’s vocabulary range based on word association.
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- Grammar
- Unit 1 Definite and Indefinite Articles
- Unit 2 Nouns – Introduction to Nouns And Forming Nouns
- Unit 3 Nouns – Countable And Uncountable Nouns
- Unit 4 Nouns - Proper Nouns
- Unit 5 Nouns – Collective Nouns
- Unit 6 Agreement
- Unit 7 Gender
- Unit 8 Possession (Nouns, Adjectives and Pronouns)
- Unit 9 Forming Nouns
- Unit 10 Forming Verbs and Forms of the Verb
- Unit 11 Simple Present and Past Tenses
- Unit 12 Present and Past Continuous Tenses
- Unit 13 Present and Past Perfect Tenses
- Unit 14 Present And Past Perfect Continuous Tenses
- Unit 15 Relative Pronouns
- Unit 16 Simple Future Tense and ‘Going To’ Form
- Unit 17 Infinitives
- Unit 18 Modal and Semi-modal Verbs
- Unit 19 Introducing Adjectives
- Unit 20 Forming Adjectives And Comparison of Adjectives
- Unit 21 Introducing Adverbs And Forming Adverbs
- Unit 22 Prepositions
- Unit 23 Personal Pronouns
- Unit 24 Adverbial Clauses
- Answers
- Vocabulary
- Unit 1
- Unit 2
- Unit 3
- Unit 4
- Unit 5
- Unit 6
- Unit 7
- Unit 8
- Unit 9
- Unit 10 Answers
