Name : _______________________________ Class : ______________ Date : ___________

Grammar Exercises
Practice 1: Writing Correct Sentences
Rearrange the following words to form meaningful sentences. Write the sentences in the spaces provided.
1. am - a - I - prefect - school
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2. of - Jim - afraid - snakes - is
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3. sing - Aileen - and - dance - can
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4. fast - The - man - cannot - run - old
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5. is - class - boy - tallest - the - Ali - in
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6. to - fly - Elephants - are - able - not
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7. teachers - obey - We - our - must
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8. Shida - loves - skydiving, - Besides - also - swimming
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9. the - wall - The - horse - jump - can - over
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10. headmaster - spoke - assembly - The - school - at - the
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11. train - the - at - The - arrived - station - on - time
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12. national - flag - citizens - respect - must - the - All
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13. sells - The - shop - various - of costumes - kind
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Practice 2: Simple Past Tense

Change the verbs underlined to the Simple Past Tense.

My Aunt Esah has some very strange habits. She gets up at 2 a.m. and cooks a huge breakfast for herself. It

is always the same breakfast. She has eggs and sardines, and coffee. The first thing she does is, she boils

the water for the coffee. While it boils, she starts frying the eggs. While they are cooking in the pan, she

takes out her tin-opener and opens the tin of sardines. She has one special tin-opener which she treasures

dearly. She also loves her frying-pan which she scrubs and polishes carefully until its copper bottom gleams

and she can see her face reflected in it. She loves it so much that she always talks to it as she cleans it or

cooks with it. She also talks to her tin-opener, of course, and also to her kettle and coffee pot, for that matter.

They have all been with her since the day she was married.
Practice 3: Note Expansion
Lengthen these sentences step by step. Add a word or phrase at each level.
Example:

I want a house
a. I want a big house.
b. I want to buy a big house
c. I want to buy a big house by the sea
d. I want to buy a big house by the sea when I grow up.

1. I had a holiday.
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b. ______________________________________________________________________________________________
c. ______________________________________________________________________________________________
d. ______________________________________________________________________________________________

2. I go to school.
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b. ______________________________________________________________________________________________
c. ______________________________________________________________________________________________
d. ______________________________________________________________________________________________

3. I like eating ice-cream.

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b. ______________________________________________________________________________________________
c. ______________________________________________________________________________________________
d. ______________________________________________________________________________________________

Practice 4: Good Expressions

Memorise the good expressions you could use in your writing
How do you describe a person who is happy?

1. She was as happy as a lark.

2. He was flushed with delight when he was declared the winner.
3. She was in seventh heaven when she heard that she had scored the top mark in English.
4. She felt on top of the world when her children bought her the vacation package to Spain.
5. His face lit up with the most radiant smile.
6. She was grinning from ear to ear and clearly on cloud nine.
7. He was over the moon when he heard the good news.
8. She was floating on air when her teacher praised her.
9. Her eyes glittered with tears of joy.
10. Her bright smile was infectious, lighting up the room.
11. Tears of joy streamed down my cheeks.
12. I was utterly relieved and overwhelmed with happiness. A radiant smile coursed through my lips and I
punched the air with delight. I felt jubilant and euphoric and this was truly the luckiest day in my life.