Firstly, we practice for our listening. And again, I only got 7 marks. I have to work harder for the real listening test. Then Hazwani, Nabila and Syafiqah present about adverb and subject verb agreement.
What is
ADVERB ???
An adverb can modify a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a phrase, or a clause. An adverb indicates manner, time, place, cause, or degree and answers questions such as "how," "when," "where," "how much".
While some adverbs can be identified by their characteristic "ly" suffix, most of them must be identified by untangling the grammatical relationships within the sentence or clause as a whole. Unlike an adjective, an adverb can be found in various places within the sentence.
In the following examples, each of the highlighted words is an adverb:
- The seamstress quickly made the mourning clothes.
In this sentence, the adverb "quickly" modifies the verb "made" and indicates in what manner (or how fast) the clothing was constructed.
- The midwives waited patiently through a long labour.
Similarly in this sentence, the adverb "patiently" modifies the verb "waited" and describes the manner in which the midwives waited.
- The boldly spoken words would return to haunt the rebel.
In this sentence the adverb "boldly" modifies the adjective "spoken."
- We urged him to dial the number more expeditiously.
Here the adverb "more" modifies the adverb "expeditiously."
- Unfortunately, the bank closed at three today.
In this example, the adverb "unfortunately" modifies the entire sentence
There are other adverbs such as
Conjunctive Adverbs : also, furthermore, moreover, still
Interrogative Adverbs : used at the beginning of questions
Learn more here : http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/adverbs.htm
SUBJECT VERB AGREEMENT
Subjects and verbs must AGREE with one another in number ( singular or plural )
Thus, if a subject is singular, its verb must also be singular; if a subject is plural, its verb must also be plural.
In the present tense, nouns and verbs form plurals in opposite ways: nouns ADD an s to the singular form; verbs REMOVE the s from the singular form.
These agreement rules do not apply to verbs used in the simple past tense without any helping verbs.
The agreement rules do, however, apply to the following helping verbs when they are used with a main verb: is-are, was-were, has-have, does-do
Click on it :
http://www.towson.edu/ows/moduleSVAGR.htm
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/sv_agr.htm
Then, we divided into two groups. Each one of the group must answer the questions about adverbs and subject verb agreement. The winner will get foods. Although we were lose but we were enjoying eat the food. Erm yummy..
