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Unit 1 - Basic English Sentence Pattern

This document contains exercises on basic English sentence patterns, including subject-verb-object order and sentences with direct and indirect objects. Students are asked to rearrange words into correct sentences. It also provides a writing assignment where students introduce themselves in about 100 words to a new friend. The exercises are meant to reinforce foundational grammar concepts.

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Unit 1 - Basic English Sentence Pattern

This document contains exercises on basic English sentence patterns, including subject-verb-object order and sentences with direct and indirect objects. Students are asked to rearrange words into correct sentences. It also provides a writing assignment where students introduce themselves in about 100 words to a new friend. The exercises are meant to reinforce foundational grammar concepts.

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Unit 1: Basic English Sentence

Pattern
Name: _________________ Class: ______________( )
Date:___________________

A. When we make simple English sentences, we usually follow the


Subject-Verb-Object pattern.
Exercise 1
Rearrange the words in correct order to make complete
sentences.

e.g. the fat cat / a mouse / is chasing.


The fat cat is chasing a mouse.

1. that thin girl / is drinking / milk now

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2. the robbers yesterday / the police / caught

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3. our teacher / like /we

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4. my mother / my baby sister / is looking after

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5. has just written / a letter / the tall man

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6. the students / have solved / some Mathematics problems

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7. her aunt tomorrow / will visit / Mary


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8. newspapers every day / my boss / reads

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9. enjoyed / the movie / the audience

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B. Some verbs can be followed by two objects without an ‘and’ connecting


them.
One of these objects is called the ‘direct object’ and the other the
‘indirect object’. Below is the
pattern of a sentence containing both direct object and indirect object:
Exercise 2
Rearrange the words in correct order to make complete
sentences.

e.g. my sister / a birthday cake yesterday / me / baked


My sister baked me a birthday cake yesterday.

1. the short man / has bought / some crayons from the stationery shop / his
son

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2. the policeman / has just shown / the driver / his driving license

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3. the patient / gave / some medicine / the nurse

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4. brought / me / a bouquet of flowers last week / my uncle


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5. the shopkeeper / the customer / is paying / two hundred dollars

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6. he / his brother / the secret / has never told

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7. a postcard from Japan / sent / her / her best friend

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8. did not lend / his new model car / the child / his classmate

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9. her mother / cooked / her / some congee

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- Assignment: You want to introduce yourself to a new friend. Write
about 100 words.

Writing assignment: A self-introduction


Name: _________________ Class: ______________( )
Date:___________________

1. Assignment: You want to introduce yourself to a new friend. Write


about 100 words.

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