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Subject Verb Basic sentence Every subject must have a verb..  Singular Subject is followed by singular Verb..  Plural Subject is followed by plural Verb... TIP 3This These Nouns that

Subject Verb Basic sentence

 Every subject must have a verb.

 Every verb must have a subject.

 Singular Subject is followed by singular Verb.

 Plural Subject is followed by plural Verb.

1.Command, and

2.Double comparative

Examples :

1 Open your mouth, please !

2 The deeper the lake, the bigger the fish.

3 The more diligent the students,

the easier their life

fresher after the precipitation.

 He became known for his sketches of nature

Empty of meaning

 It is easy to say, but difficult to do

 There are three or more groups of motives that arouse humans

 There is a lot of precipitation in the tropics

 Skiing is one of the most popular in Canada

 To regulate the nation’s money supply has become the responsibility of the Federal Reserve System

 That he was late upset his girlfriend

That, what, who, when, where, how, which, whether.

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This

These

Nouns that are preceded by one of these words

do not take an article.

Example :

Because ballpoint pens depend on gravity to pull the ink to the ball, these instruments do not work well when held sideways.

Possessive pronouns

my, your, our, his, her, their, its

always followed by nouns or noun phrases

Therefore, they can help you to distinguish a noun

from a verb.

Example :

Their English teacher teaches them on Fridays.

except, in, on,

of, out, with,

plastic.

Prepositions with Nouns

are never part of the subject phrase Example :

 Mr Smith, with his friends, … coming for dinner.

 Mr Smith and his friends … coming for dinner

 The students of this school … from Indonesia.

Complete these sentences with ‘is’ or ‘are’

is are are

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Compound Subject Mary, John, and Bill are late

Compound verb Mary reads and writes at her desk

Parallel / Repetitive Mary went to the library andto the bank.

(the, a, an) (the, a, an) Articles Indicate nouns, however,

 abstract nouns (science, education)

 uncountable nouns (milk, sugar)

may have no articles.

Example:

 Life is an object of study for poets and biologist.

 The purpose of professional conventions is to exchange and expand knowledge.

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The ending- s

Nouns Plural form

marks the last noun of plural noun phrase,Examples:

 school days

 five-credit-hour courses

 They are fifteen - - old girls year

Verbs Singular present form

tells you whether a third person subject issingular or plural

Examples:

 The …… reads.

 The …… read.

girl girls

be do have

 The experiment will be completed in three days.

 Tourists must protect their belongings from thieves

complete protect write etc.

Main Verbs

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Go on, give up,

Find out, turn on,

Bring up, make up,

The planning of television dramas … in the programming departments of broadcasting stations.

2 Before electric … common, Europeans used candles

as a source of artificial light.

(A) lighting it became

(B) the lighting became

(C) becomes the lighting

(D) lighting became

(B) where is the worst flooding that can be recorded (C) where can they record the worst flooding

(D) that can record where flooding is worst

4 Equipment failures or damage …… can interrupt local

service of electric power

(A) are caused by storms

(B) they are caused by storms

(C) which caused

(D) caused by storm

5 Helicopters are small than most airplanes and