Grammar Table

Assalamualaikum & Happy Chinese New Year everyone!  First and foremost, this post is meant for my 3 Nilam & 3 Mutiara students who are now on their holiday break.  Below is the homework that you guys need to complete before the school reopens. You can use whatever resources that you have be it reference books, Google, or even asking for help from those who are good in English. 
*Scroll all the way down until you reach the end of this post to download the softcopy of the homework.   

Name:                                                                         

Class: 3 Nilam / 3 Mutiara                                   

9 February 2016

This grammar table will be useful for Error Identification, your essays, and your daily English usage.

Let’s fill in the blanks one by one.

*Some of them have been completed for you.

Nouns -to name people, places, things, ideas, or concepts	Common & Proper Nouns	Common Nouns Proper Nouns
	Abstract Nouns
	Singular / Plural Nouns
	Countable & Uncountable Nouns
Pronouns -to replace nouns	Personal
	Possessive
	Reflexive
	Indefinite -   Does not refer to any specific person, thing, or amount. It is vague and ‘not definite’.	All, another, any, anybody/anyone, anything, each, everybody/everyone, everything, few, many, nobody, none, one, several, some, somebody/someone, one, another.
Verbs -to talk about actions, or state of being	Action Verbs ·        Regular ·        Irregular *refer to the irregular verbs table for more info	Regular: Irregular:
	Linking Verbs -    Show a relationship between the subject of the sentence and a noun or adjective being linked to it. -    My dog is a Bulldog (subject <-> noun). -    My cat is very furry (subject <-> adjective).	To be: am, is, are, was, were, being, been Appear, become, feel, grow, look, remain, seem, smell, sound, stay, taste, and turn.
	Auxiliary Verbs (helping verbs)	Be: am, is, are, was, were (not) Do: do, does, did (not) Have: has, have, had (not)
		Modals: can (cannot)/could (not), may (not)/might (not, shall (not) /should (not),  will (not) /would (not, used (not) to, ought (not) to, must (not)
Adjectives - to give qualities to things, ideas, people / describe a noun or a pronoun – it tells how many, what kind or which one.	Opinion, facts, feelings
	Making comparisons	good bad little many far	better worse less more further		best worst least most furthers
		(as) tall (as) (as) short (as) (as) nice (as) (as) kind (as) (as) mean (as) (as) pretty (as) (as) cute (as) (as) cheap (as)	taller than shorter than nicer than kinder than meaner than prettier than cuter than cheaper than		the tallest the shortest the nicest the kindest the meanest the prettiest the cutest the cheapest
		comfortable expensive amazing beautiful	more …than more …than more …than more …than		the most … the most … the most … the most …
Articles	Indefinite Article ·        Talk about general things	A (used with words that begin with consonants) An (used with words that begin with vowel)
	Definite Article ·        Talk about specific things	The
	Zero Article ·        Things that do not need articles
Adverbs -modify verbs, nouns, adjectives	Manner (how)
	Time (When, how often)
	Place (Where)
	Degree
Conjunctions -    join words or group of words.	Group 1	FANBOYS: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
	Group 2 - to show things of similar value	either…or neither…nor both….and not only…but also
	Group 3 - to show sequence of events / connectors	First, … Then, … Next, … After that, … Finally, …
Prepositions -    relate a noun or pronoun to another word in a sentence.	Place
	Direction
	Time
	Manner

PS: Please remind your other classmates about it.  3 Nilam students, inform your friends from 3 Mutiara about this as well in case they forget.  You can download the softcopy here and print it out or rewrite everything on a foolscap paper.

*Below is a screenshot on how to download the file once you have clicked the link provided..