MAKING SIMPLE SENTENCES

SAMPLE 1 2 PARTS OF A SENTENCE SUBJECT Suzie Dogs A snake VERB cried bark hisses

SAMPLE 2 3 PARTS OF A SENTENCE

SUBJECT (Noun) Who/What I Samy He Encik Amin and Puan Rokiah

VERB (action words) am enjoyed visits are

OBJECT (Noun) Who/what a girl the show. his grandparents. English teachers.

SAMPLE 3 3 PARTS OF A SENTENCE

SUBJECT (Noun) Who/What I Teck Hooi Juana Encik Amin and Puan Rokiah SUBJECT (Noun) Who/What My mother He I They is is are am

VERB (action words) happy. honest.

ADJECTIVE (how)

young and beautiful. very hardworking.

SAMPLE 4 3 PARTS OF A SENTENCE

VERB (action words) is going lives went were swimming to school.

PLACE (Where) in Sungai Petani. to the post office. in the pool.

SAMPLE 5 3 PARTS OF A SENTENCE

SUBJECT (Noun) Who/What I My parents Alicia The baby come went

VERB (action words) every day. yesterday. last night. just now.

TIME (When)

dreamt cried

SAMPLE 6 4 PARTS OF A SENTENCE

SUBJECT Who/What They He I They were plays went are

VERB (action words)

ADJECTIVE/ OBJECT/ PLACE

TIME (When) yesterday. every afternoon. this morning. today.

at school football to the post office happy

WH - TECHNIQUE 6 When 1 Who What Which Aini Yesterday Aini 2 Action Words (Verbs) went or went to Gurun. 3 Who What Which 4 How 5 Where 6 When

to Gurun

yesterday.

VERB

PRONOUNS ARTICLES PARTS OF SPEECH QUANTIFIERS ADJECTIVES & ADVERBS PREPOSITIONS

NOUN

CONJUNCTIONS

GENRE OF NARRATIVE The pictures below describe an incident. Use all the words given to make sentences about the pictures.

Linda - strolling - street - found - wallet -drain

- picked - wallet - contained - money documents - identity card

- honest - hand - police - thanked - praised honesty

TIME Yesterday,

SUBJECT Linda She Linda She Linda It The wallet Linda She Linda The policeman He The policeman

VERB

ADJECTIVES/OBJECT/PLACE

TIME/WHEN yesterday.

was strolling found picked up contained was handed thanked praised

along the street. street a wallet beside the drain. the wallet.

money, documents and identity card. honest. an honest girl. the wallet to the police. Linda. her for her honesty. Linda for her honesty.

Question 22 The pictures below describe what happened to Puan Sarina last Sunday.

Puan Sarina clerk works post office goes foot

man incident grabbed thief police station thanked

man incident grabbed thief police station thanked

Draft 1

Puan Sarina clerk works post office goes - foot

Subject Puan Sarina Puan Sarina Puan Sarina Every morning,

verb is works goes Puan Sarina

Adjective/object/place /how aclerk clerk. in post office. a post office. to workfoot foot on on foot goes

time

every morning. to work on foot.

Sunday walking work motorist to snatch - handbag

Subject Puan Sarina Last Sunday, A motorist

verb was walking Puan Sarina came to snatch

Adjective/object/place /how home from work to work was walking

time last Sunday.

home from work.

Puan Sarinas handbag.

man incident grabbed thief police station - thanked

Subject A man The man The man Puan Sarina

verb saw grabbed took thanked

Adjective/object/place /how the incident. the thief.

time

police police the thief topolice station. to the thestation. station. the man.

Draft 2

Puan Sarina Puan Sarina She Puan Sarina She Every morning, Puan Sarina Last Sunday, A motorist A man The man He The man He Puan Sarina

is works goes Puan Sarina was walking Puan Sarina came to snatch saw grabbed took thanked

aclerk clerk. in post office. a post office. to work on foot foot goes home from work was walking every morning. to work on foot. last Sunday. home from work.

Puanher handbag. Sarinas handbag. the incident. the thief. the thief to the police station. the man. him.

Draft 3

Puan Sarina Puan Sarina She Puan Sarina She Every morning,

is works goes Puan Sarina

aclerk clerk. in post office. a post office. to work on foot foot goes every morning. to work on foot.

Puan Sarina lives in my neighbourhood. She is a clerk in the post office not far from her house. She usually goes to work on foot every morning. Puan Sarina who lives in my neighbourhood is a clerk in the post office not far from her house. She usually goes to work on foot every morning.

Draft 3

Puan Sarina Last Sunday, A motorist

was walking Puan Sarina came to snatch

home from work was walking

last Sunday. home from work.

Puanher handbag. Sarinas handbag.

Last Sunday, she was walking home from work. Suddenly, a motorist came to snatch her handbag. She screamed for help. Last Sunday, as she was walking home from work a motorist came to snatch her handbag. She screamed for help.

Draft 3

A man The man He The man He Puan Sarina

saw grabbed took thanked

the incident. the thief. the thief to the police station. the man. him.

A man was passing by. He saw the incident. He quickly grabbed the thief. He decided to take him to the nearest police station. Puan Sarina thanked the man and praised him for his quick action. A man who was passing by saw the incident. He quickly grabbed the thief and decided to take him to the nearest police station. Puan Sarina thanked the man and praised him for his bravery and quick action.

DRAFT 3 Puan Sarina lives in my neighbourhood. She is a clerk in the post office not far from her house. She usually goes to work on foot every morning. Last Sunday, she was walking home from work. Suddenly, a motorist came to snatch her handbag. She screamed for help. A man was passing by. He saw the incident. He quickly grabbed the thief. He decided to take him to the nearest police station. Puan Sarina thanked the man and praised him for his quick action.

DRAFT 4 Puan Sarina who lives in my neighbourhood is a clerk in the post office not far from her house. She usually goes to work on foot every morning. Last Sunday, as she was walking home from work a motorist came to snatch her handbag. She screamed for help. A man who was passing by saw the incident. He quickly grabbed the thief and decided to take him to the nearest police station. Puan Sarina thanked the man and praised him for his bravery and quick action.

gathered Community Hall groups cleared drains can plastic bags

cleaned compound planted trees plants beautify village

12 noon lunch village headman thanked service headmaster proud -

gathered Community Hall groups cleared drains can plastic bags

Sekolah Kebangsaan Taman Nuri organised a Caring for the Environment Campaign in Kampung Keranji. The Boys Scouts SUBJECT The Boys Scouts There Two groups groups The first groups group They VERB gathered were cleared cleared gathered ADJ./OBJECT/PLACE at the Community Hall Community Hall two groups. the drains. groups drains the drains. drains empty cans plastic bags into plastic bags . cans into and bottles TIME early in the morning.

cleaned compound planted trees plants beautify village

SUBJECT The other group The other group They They

VERB cleaned planted wanted to beautify beautify

ADJ./OBJECT/PLACE the compound. compound trees and plants. the village. village.

TIME

12 noon lunch village headman thanked service headmaster proud -

TIME At 12 noon 12 noon

SUBJECT they

VERB had thanked was

ADJ./OBJECT/PLACE lunch. them for their service. for their service. proud of them. proud

The village headman village headman The headmaster

DRAFT 1 Sekolah Kebangsaan Taman Nuri organised a Caring for the Environment Campaign in Kampung Keranji. The Boys Scouts The Boys Scouts Two groups groups They The other group The other group They They At 12 noon 12 noon gathered cleared gathered cleaned planted wanted to beautify beautify they had thanked was at the Community Hall Community Hall the drains. drains empty cans plastic bags into plastic bags . cans into and bottles the compound. compound trees and flower plants. the village. village. lunch. them for their service. for their service. proud of them. proud early in the morning.

The village headman village headman The headmaster

DRAFT 1

Sekolah Kebangsaan Taman Nuri organised a Caring for the Environment Campaign in Kampung Keranji. The Boys Scouts gathered at the Taman Nuri Community Hall early in the morning. Two groups cleared the drains. They gathered empty cans and bottles into plastic bags. The other group cleaned the compound. They planted trees and flower plants. They wanted to beautify the village. At 12 noon they had lunch. The village headman thanked them for their service. The headmaster was very proud of them.

DRAFT 2

Sekolah Kebangsaan Taman Nuri organised a Caring for the Environment Campaign in Kampung Keranji. The Boys Scouts gathered at the Taman Nuri Community Hall early in the morning. They were divided into two groups. The first group cleared the drains. They gathered empty cans and bottles into plastic bags. The other group cleaned the compound. They planted trees and flower plants to beautify the village. At 12 noon they had lunch together. The village headman thanked them for their good service. The headmaster was also very proud of them.

DRAFT 3

Sekolah Kebangsaan Taman Nuri organised a Caring for the Environment Campaign in Kampung Keranji. The Boys Scouts gathered at the Taman Nuri Community Hall early in the morning. They were divided into two groups. The first group cleared the drains. They gathered the empty dirty cans and bottles into big black plastic bags. The other group cleaned the compound. They also planted trees and beautiful colourful flower plants to beautify the village. At 12 noon they finished their job and had lunch together. The village headman thanked and praised them for their good service. The headmaster was also very proud of them. They were very happy to see the village finally clean and beautiful. They went home tired but satisfied.

Avoid the following common errors

WRONG USE OF PRONOUNS MISSING VERBS

We ask he to show we the way. Mawar Flat is near ours school. He went with her parents. She went to Taiping with his. I and my family love local fruits. Salimah honest girl. The lady in pain. You must helpful to the girls. The dancers very beautiful.

SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT PREPOSITIONS

He have an idea. The prizes is good. He are going to Alor Setar. I were cycling to school. Her parents loves her. At there we saw many animals. You have a chance to visit to Sabah. She thanked to Ahmad for his help. He jumped in to the river.

MODAL WORDS

He can comes with you to my house. At first I cannot saw the lions. My father did not went with me. She does not plays netball every afternoon. Betty will writes the letter.
Use root words after

do, does, did

infinitive - to Modal words

can, could may, might shall, should must will, would

DOUBLE VERBS

The lady was fell into the river. We are must clean the drain every day. Later he was crashed into the ditch. There have many ways to become clever. I very like to listen to music. There very many many people at concert.
They go picnic last week with teacher they. Muthu was not go to school because he did not feeling well.

POOR SENTENCE STRUCTURES

SOME COMMON ERRORS IN WRITING 1. Mr. Lim took family picnic waterfalls Mr. Lim took his family go for a picnicthethe waterfalls. for a picnic at at waterfalls. 2. - farmer feeds hens ducks - grains with grains. The farmer feeds the hens and ducks eat grains. 3. - children gift mother birthday The children gift theirgift motherpresent on her birthday. gave a mother a a gift onon her birthday. their to their mother her birthday. 4. There - accident front school morning was an accident in front of the school this morning. There had an accident in front of the school this morning. 5. Mr. Samy wife Penang holidays Mr Samy and his wife went to Penang for the holidays. Mr Samy and his wife went to Penang for holidays. 6. Yesterday rained people caught rain It rained heavily yesterday. Many people was caught in the rain. Yesterday was rained heavily. Many people caught inin the rain. it rained heavily. Many people was caught the rain.