| Basic Grammar and Writing for Adult English Learners |
| See grammar chart of simple present tense forms of BE with subject pronouns Select the correct form of BE #1 (affirmative) #2 (negative) #3 (some negative and some questions) Type the correct form of BE #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 |
| VERBS IN THE PRESENT TENSE |
| WRITING BASICS |
| Identify nouns and verbs |
| Use proper punctuation |
| Use proper capitalization |
| ARTICLES |
| Study a and an |
| Use a, an, the, or nothing #1 |
| PARTS OF SPEECH |
| CONJUNCTIONS |
| forgot |
| said |
| NOUNS |
| went |
| PRONOUNS |
| ADJECTIVES |
| Watch and listen to lessons on prepositions of time and location, then practice |
| PREPOSITIONS |
| Use prepositions of location to say where the mouse is hiding |
| Study how to make yes/no questions in the past tense using did |
| Study how to make yes/no questions in the past tense with BE |
| Study how to make yes/no questions with BE |
| MAKING QUESTIONS |
| ANIMATED LESSONS! |
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| . , ! ? |
| animal (sing.) |
| animals (pl.) |
| she |
| him |
| I |
| me |
| the queen |
| run (v.) |
| happy (adj.) |
| flower (n.) |
| he (pron.) |
| and (conj.) |
| slowly (adv.) |
| under (prep.) |
| they |
| It will ring at 5:30. |
| It's on the table. |
| coffee or tea? |
| you and me |
| small but expensive |
| What? |
| Identify nouns in sentences |
| Quiz yourself on irregular forms |
| "THERE IS" AND "THERE ARE" |
| Practice the 3rd person singular rule with many verbs #1 #2 (affirmative) #3 #4 #5 (some negative) #6 #7 (some questions) |
| took |
| Identify adjectives and adverbs |
| his remote control |
| bought |
| us |
| SENTENCE STRUCTURE |
| Simple present tense |
| Present continuous tense |
| Simple past tense |
| Future tense with will |
| Future tense with going to |
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| period comma exclamation question mark mark |
| her ring |
| an elephant |
| a car |
| Examples of affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences in different tenses |
| VERBS IN THE PAST TENSE |
| Study the rules for spelling plural nouns |
| Learn all 8 parts of speech |
| Oh! (interj.) |
| Identify the simple subject and predicate in sentences |
| Learn contractions with a matching game |
| More practice with both |
| Practice commas |
| Make nouns possessive |
| Play a video game with prepositions |
| was were |
| Learn when to use the simple present tense and when to use the present continuous tense |
| I am they are |
| he likes we like they don't like |
| We are going now. |
| Learn how to form present continuous verbs |
| Use the correct word order for questions #1 |
| I like pizza. I am eating some now. |