Basic Grammar Rules

Dear all,

A little recap from today's lesson.

Nouns
Words that name things, ideas, people, places, events.
e.g Party, Teacher, Car, Books

Verbs
Action words
e.g Dance, Walk, Study, is, was, are, were 

Adjectives
Describe how things, people or places look or feel
e.g Happy, Confused, Busy, Hardworking, Kind-hearted

Adverbs
Describe manner, place and time in which actions take place (associated with verbs)
e.g Spinning quickly, Walk hurriedly, Sleeping soundly, Shouted happily

Determiners
Determine the quantity of nouns
e.g a, many, twenty, these, those, this, that

Prepositions
Talks about where something comes from, what position it is in relation to another, what time something is in relation to another event
e.g on the table, around the field, after school, during lesson

Conjunctions
Join words, sequences or two ideas/sentence together
e.g and, or, but, since, although,

Today, we learnt about modal verbs. Modal verbs are used to express intention, necessity, obligation, offer, permission, possibility, prohibition, question, request, suggestion. 

e.g can, could, may, might, shall, should, must, ought to, will, would

Here's a video you can watch for more explanation on Modal verbs.

Learning points for today:
Basic grammar rules and how to apply them

Reminders:
English files (Yellow and Red)
2 Exercise books (One for Newspaper Articles & One for English notes/writing)

Sincerely,
Mr Nelson Ong