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 23 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 gap-fill questions, 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.
Words for the Week of each unit is specially designed to acquaint learners with new words and their meanings and strives to expand their vocabulary. Using the New Words 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.
Confusing Words is specially designed to help learners distinguish between words that look quite similar but have different meanings.
Editing teaches learners to identify words that have spelling or grammatical errors and to correct them accordingly.
Word Expansion 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.
Contents
- Grammar
- Unit 1 Nouns – Introduction to Nouns And Forming Nouns
- Unit 2 Nouns – Countable And Uncountable Nouns
- Unit 3 Nouns - Proper Nouns And Collective Nouns
- Unit 4 Agreement
- Unit 5 Possession
- Unit 6 Forming Nouns
- Unit 7 Forming Verbs and Forms of the Verb
- Unit 8 Simple Present and Past Tenses
- Unit 9 Present and Past Continuous Tenses
- Unit 10 Present and Past Perfect Tenses
- Unit 11 Present And Past Perfect Continuous Tenses
- Unit 12 Subordinate Clauses
- Unit 13 Future Continuous and Future Perfect Tenses
- Unit 14 Tense Sequence
- Unit 15 Modal and Semi-modal Verbs
- Unit 16 Introducing Adjectives
- Unit 17 Forming Adjectives And Comparison of Adjectives
- Unit 18 Introducing Adverbs And Forming Adverbs
- Unit 19 Prepositions
- Unit 20 Common Preposition Combinations
- Unit 21 Personal Pronouns
- Unit 22 Active and Passive Voice
- unit 23 Indirect Statements
- Answers
- Vocabulary
- Unit 1
- Unit 2
- Unit 3
- Unit 4
- Unit 5
- Unit 6
- Unit 7
- Unit 8
- Unit 9
- Unit 10
