Basic (Entry level)
Learning grammar from the base
Lesson 1
Sentence formation
A sentence comprises mainly three elements:
Subject:(s) The subject of a sentence is the person, place, thing, or idea that is doing or being something. You can find the subject of a sentence if you can find the verb. Ask the question, "Who or what to verb and the answer to that question is the subject.
Example. I eat mango.(who eats mango?)
Here 'I' is the subject as asking the question we are getting the answer.
Verb:(v) a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.
Example. I eat mango.(what do I do?)
Here 'eat' is the verv as asking the question we are getting the answer.
Object:(o) The object of a sentence is the person or thing that receives the action of the verb. It is the who or what that the subject does something to.
Example. I eat mango. (what do I eat?)
Here 'mango' is the object as asking the question we are getting the answer.
More examples to understand:
Mohan plays cricket.
He reads a story book
I help my mom.
You love icecream.
They want a solution.
Lesson 2
Third Person Singular Number
Now as we know how to form a sentence we can practice that.
We can remember the structure like this:
S + V + O
Where
- S for Subject
- V for Verb
- O for Object
Now the problem we face or the maximum mistakes we do is when we have to put s/es with the verb.
It is only applicable for present tense or for those sentences we use for everyday or happening everyday.
For an example:
He eats rice.
Here it means that it is a regular thing.
Now coming to s/es, first we have observe the subject very well.
Points to check:
- Whether the subject is singular or not
- Whether 3rd person or not
- Only applicable for simple present tense
Singular and plural come under number, when the subject is one or alone then we call it singular like he, she, a dog or any names or object.
When it is more than one, then we call it plural like they, we, people, trees etc.
Now coming to person, we have total 3 persons in English.
- First Person- I
- Second Person- You
- Third Person- except you & I the rest are third Person. Like he, she, Ram, Shyam..etc.
Now as I have said earlier that we have check both the number & person, that means if the subject is Third Person at the same time singular number then with the verb goes -s or -es
For an example:
He goes to school.
He is Third Person & also singular number that's why we added -es with the verb 'go'.
More examples:
- Tree gives us oxygen.
- He likes cartoon.
- Tamanna dances well.
- She loves icecream.
- The sun rises in the east.
- Hena plays cricket.
*Try to do more examples and speak everyday. Make it a habit and always remember this points and you will never have this mistake again.
Lesson 3
Tense in Short
As we already know the sentence formation as S + V+ O, Now we need to remember the things while writing or speaking English.
- For Present Tense or for those sentences which happen everyday and are universal truth, for such sentences we need to look at the subjects, if the subject is 3rd person singular number then with the verb we have to add -s/-es
Like:
He plays cricket.
- If you find the helping verbs like am/is/are in present and was/ were in past then with the verbs we have to add "-ing".
Like:
He is playing cricket.
He was playing football.
- If you find the helping verbs like have/has in present and had in past then we have to use 3rd form of the verbs.
Like:
He has gone to school.
I had eaten tandoori.
- If you find the helping/modal verbs like can/shall/ought/may/will/could/would/might then we always have to use 1st form of the verbs.
Like:
He will help me.
Geeta may do that.
**There are exceptions to the above said points which we will discuss in voice change and in other chapters. Lets just remember these points to have a n idea on grammar so that we do less mistakes.
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