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1.0 PARTS OF SPEECH 1.1 Introduction When learning Grammar, the first thing that is being taught is the Parts of Speech. This is the basic thing that someone needs to know when dealing with grammar. The parts of speech will help you to understand the word, on how it is used, so that the meaning is presented and understood by the reader. Sometimes, the word can bring different meaning based on the parts of speech. There are eight parts of speech : noun, verb, pronoun, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction and interjection.

1.2 Types of Parts of Speech Parts of speech are the basic types of words that make up a sentence.There most important parts of speech in English include

nouns,pronouns,verbs,adverbs,adjectives,prepositions,conjunctions and interjections.

NOUNS

PRONOUNS

INTERJECTIONS PARTS OF SPEECH CONJUNCTIONS

VERBS

ADVERBS PREPOSITIONS ADJECTIVE

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1.2.1 Nouns Nouns is used to describe a person, name, place, thing, object or idea. Noun varies when it comes to plural and singular, and sometimes it varies between gender. Example of noun includes Mr. Ali, school, books, teacher. 1.2.2 Verb Verb is an action which is done by a noun or a subject. It varies based on the doer, the time it is being done, and also the number of doer. Example of verbs are reading, write, thinking. 1.2.3 Pronoun Pronoun is what represents the noun. It replaces the noun in the sentence to prevent redundancy in the sentence. Pronouns includes he, she, it, they, we. 1.2.4 Adjective Adjectives are the words which describes the noun. It describes how the nouns physical appearance, whether it is concrete or abstract. It includes colour, size, style, and grades. Examples of adjectives are beautiful, mesmerizing, heavy, blue. 1.2.5 Adverb Adverbs are words which describes the verb. It describe the degree of the verb. Most of the time, it is formed by adding a suffix of ly at the end of a verb. Examples of adverb includes ghastly, steadily, roughly, very, always. 1.2.6 Preposition Preposition shows the setting of something. It also works as the linker of the other parts of speech to make up a sentence. Preposition describes the position, time, and also the setting of something. Prepositions are on, before, between, during, over.

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1.2.7 Conjunction Conjunction is used to connect words or phrases which share common characteristic. It gathers two things together as an idea. Example of conjunctions are and, when, for, therefore. 1.2.8 Interjection Interjections are words or phrase that shows emotion of the speaker. Usually, interjection will have an exclamation mark on the sentence. Examples are ouch, hey, eh 2.0 FUNCTIONS OF THE TWENTY WORDS PARTS SPEECH Adjective OF

WORD 1. effective

FUNCTION Describes the result of the usage of English in Science and

Mathematics 2. Mathematics 3. implemented 4. decision 5. nationalists 6. reactions Noun Verb Noun Noun Verb The subject taught in school The action taken/idea used The result of the discussion The person who is patriotic The respond of the teachers and parents 7. negative 8. implications 9. conducted Noun Noun Verb The bad implication The result of the action The action taken to perform a survey 10. considered Verb The reaction of the people after thinking about it 11. educational Adjective The concept of teaching in

English
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Noun

The

main

reasons

of

the

implementation 13. investments Noun The risk in money given by government 14. universities Noun The higher institute that the students go after high school 15. jeopardy Noun The thing that happened during the indecisive action of

abolishing English for Science and Mathematics 16. excitement Noun The result that brings joy to the parents 17. unfortunately Adjective The opposite state of the

students when it comes to exam results 18. retreating Noun When the government decided to abolish English for Science and Maths 19. examination Noun The papers that students need to answer and score high marks 20. expected Verb The action of the parents waiting for good result of the students.

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3.0 TENSES Tenses have three main tense and forms in English.Simple Present Tense,Simple Past Tense and Simple Future Tense.

SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE

SIMPLE PAST TENSE TENSE

SIMPLE FUTURE TENSE

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3.1 The Simple Present Tense

The Simple Present Tense is used to refer to actions that happen everyday or something that we do always,often or sometimes.

*The following table to know how the Simple Present Tense is used with the various Pronouns and Nouns. Pronouns/Nouns I You They We Mr. and Mrs.Eric The students Words in the Simple Present Tense walk eat learn listen drive tell

He She It Miss Sunita Mrs. Chan Cik Eda

walks eats learns listens drives tells

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3.2 The Simple Past Tense

The Simple Past Tense is used to talk about an action or a situation that happened in the past.

*The following table to know how some regular and irregular verbs are changed from the Present to the Past Tense.

Regular Verbs Present look watch play wash climb Past looked watched played washed climbed

Irregular Verbs Present run make sing buy send Past ran made sang bought sent

3.3 The Simple Future Tense The Simple Future Tense is used to refer to something that will take place in the future.The words shall or will is used with the verb in a sentence. The word shall is used only with the pronouns I or we while the word will is used with all other pronouns and nouns. *Sometimes will is also used with I and we.

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4.0 FORMING SENTENCES

Words Simple Present Tense: 1. Mathematics 2. universities 3. examination 4. negatives

Sentences

Mathematics is my favourite subject. There are many universities in Malaysia. Suraya passes her final examination. We do not want other people to have a negative impression of us. The nasionalists of our country are Dato Bahaman,Mat Kilau dan Mat Janggut.

5. nasionalist

Simple Past Tense: 1. conducted 2. considered The conducted his History class successfully. The officer considered all his staff understood his instructions. 3. decision Mr. Raju had made his decision and he did not want to change it. 4. educational The class went for an educational trip to the National Planetarium. 5. reactions Her reactions after hearing about her fathers death were very unexpected.

Simple Future Tense: 1. excitement My achievement in the examination will bring happiness and excitement to my family. 2. implications 3. investment 4. jeopardy She will have to consider the implications of her action. The rich man hopes his investment will be profitable. His life will be in jeopardy if he continues to have an affair with another woman. 5. implemented The new rules will be implemented starting tomorrow.
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5.0 CONCLUSION Grammar is important because it is the language that makes it possible for us to talk about language. Grammar names the types of words and word groups that make up sentences not only in English but in any language. As human beings, we can put sentences together even as children--we can all do grammar. But to be able to talk about how sentences are built, about the types of words and word groups that make up sentences--that is knowing about grammar. And knowing about grammar offers a window into the human mind and into our amazingly complex mental capacity.

People associate grammar with errors and correctness. But knowing about grammar also helps us understand what makes sentences and paragraphs clear and interesting and precise. Grammar can be part of literature discussions, when we and our students closely read the sentences in poetry and stories. And knowing about grammar means finding out that all languages and all dialects follow grammatical patterns.

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9.0 REFLECTION Firstly, I would like to thank Allah SWT for giving me the strength and courage to finish this assignment on time.I would also like to express my gratitude to respectful lecturer, Puan Raja Zaida bt Raja Ahmad Kamar for the help and guideance she had given us which enable us to complete this assignment. My deepest gratitude also goes to the English teachers in my school and all my collegues for their help. I do not have any problems in typing and surfing in internet because I always use the computer for my lessons. I am a very determined person.I never give up easily. If I have any problems,I will try my best to overcome them, either by myself or find help from others. There were many obstacles I have to overcome in order to complete this paper.My biggest problem was my inability to master the English Language.This had made it difficult for me to understand the content of this assignment.But after attending the face to- face interaction class, and listening to the lecturers explanation, I was able to understand what the assignment was all about. Another problem I had to face was time constraint. Being a Year 6 Bahasa Malaysia teacher, I was up to my ears with tonnes of papers to mark, especially during the last few days before the actual UPSR. I have great difficulties in dividing my time between school work and course work. I also have problems in finding the correct and suitable information to be used in this assignment.I went to the library and surf the internet.I finally found some good articles related to the teaching and learning of Science and Mathematics, I seeked help from my school English teachers and my collegues if I had any difficulties in the understanding the articles.I am very happy because they are always helpful. I do not use all those difficulties as an excuse not to be able to complete my course work.I learned a lot of things from those problems. I realized now that mastering English Language is important although I am a Bahasa Malaysia teacher. As a teacher, I should be more concerned and sensitive towards the governments policies,especially the current one Memperkasa Bahasa
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Melayu,

Memperkukuh

Bahasa

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Inggeris(MBMMBI). I am going to accept the governments challenge, to upgrade the mastery of both languages. The ability to understand both languages will help me to be a better teacher, a good student and a knowledgeable other. I will tell my pupils the importance of leaning English so they will be able to get all the knowledge in the world because English is an international language. This is the best coursewoks I have ever done. If there ia any flaws or mistakes,I will try to overcome them in the future.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY
BOOKS 1.Margerat Shanti David,Norhanim binti Abd Samat,Saadah binti Khalid(2007),Dewan Bahasa Dan Pustaka. 2.Rujukan Zoom In Grammer(2007),Info-Didik. 2.Siri UPSR Tahun 5,(1995),Pustaka Unik

3.Kamus Longman Essential Activator(1997). 4.Kamus Oxford Advanced Learners,Dictionary

WEBSITE http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/zeitformen.htm

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