Sunday, June 8, 2014

Have Fun Learning English Grammar – Part I (Simple Present Positive)

Hi All,

I feel that many students require some help related to understanding and constructing sentences which adhere to the proper rules of grammar. As a student I initially struggled to capture the basics of English and grammatical rules, but after using a simple set of structured lessons I was able to enrich my knowledge and use the language more fluently. The set of posts I’m doing will be targeted to the novices of English language who are struggling to understand the grammatical rules.

In this blog post I’m going to blog about simple presentence which will be valuable for performing daily conversations based on present tense. Tense means the time. Ideally English language consists of PAST, PRESENT and FUTURE tenses.



Simple Presentence
Actions that are happening at present (taking place now).

FORMS:
     1. [VERB]
     2. [VERB] + s/es
Form 1 is used when referring to first (I), second (you) or third person plural form (they). Form 2 is used for third person (he/she/it).

We will consider the [VERB] eat

Positive: When we agree with the present action

  First Person: I eat

  Second Person: You/ We eat

  Third Person Singular: He/ She/ It eats

  Third Person Plural: They eat

 Look how [VERB]+S has been used for the third person singular. Now how do you think the below verbs can be used in first person singular?
 Go, Walk, Run, Play, Sleep


First Person       Second Person       Third Person - Singular       Third Person - Plural
I walk                  You/We walk           He/ She/ It walks                    They walk
I run                    You/We run             He/ She/ It runs                      They run
I play                   You/We play           He/ She/ It plays                     They play
I sleep                 You/We sleep          He/ She/ It sleeps                   They sleep

 Noticed any difference?
Yes, the usage of verb “Go” in third person singular form has applied the form [VERB] + ES.

What have we learnt up to now?
   • Simple presentence means describing an action that is taking place at present.
   • It has two forms: [Verb], [Verb] + s/es
   • We have learnt how to use verbs in the positive format of simple present.

Let us try out constructing a simple sentence (consisting of, [subject] + [verb] + [object]) in simple presentence.
 
   First Person: I play cricket.
   Second Person: You/ We play cricket.
   Third Person Singular: He/ She/ It plays cricket.
   Third Person Plural: They play cricket.

 Was it hard?

Quick question, what is the verb and object used in the above simple present sentences?
     Verb - play
     Object - cricket

Can you guess the Subjects used??? :)

What?

Yes, you now know to converse, write up simple present sentences in positive form.

As an exercise try coming up with simple present sentences for the following verbs.
Pay, Field, Bowl, Go, Walk, Run, Sleep

Completed already? Awesome! But you have to wait for my next post to finding out the answers.

Till we meet again,
Cheers,
Mr. Y3K

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