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LCH1060

Academic English
(Social Sciences) I

Week 7
Ms Toby Chiu

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losing
Many of life's failures are people
who did not realize how close
they were to success
_________________________________.
when they gave up

Thomas Alva Edison


(1847-1931) American Inventor
His inventions included the electric light bulb
telegraph, phonograph, Kinetograph (a camera for 2
motion pictures), and alkaline storage batteries
This Week’s Learning

Subject-Verb Agreement
01 Ch.9, pp. 209-213
03 Online Exercises

Verb Tense System


02 Ch.10, pp. 214-226

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Let’s have a quick revision on
grammar rules
➢ T7.1 SVA Ex. (download from Moodle,
Week 7 Folder)
➢ Ch. 9, Activity 1, p. 212
➢ Ch. 9, Activity 2, pp. 212-213

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1) Subject-Verb Agreement (SVA)
A verb must agree in ________________________
number with
its subject. Double check SVA in these 10 special cases:
1. The subject is separated from the verb by intervening
words, phrases, or clauses (p. 209)

e.g. Prepositional phrases / adjective clauses

2. Subjects and verbs are reversed. (p. 210)

3. You have collective nouns as the subject. (p. 210)


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Textbook Ch. 9, pp. 209-212


4. You have uncountable nouns that end in -s in spelling - They
should take singular verbs. (p. 210)

5. You words such as each, either, neither, one, everybody, and


everyone are used as subjects, they take singular verbs. (p.
211)

6. When words such as all, any, half, most, none, and some are
used as subjects, they can take either singular or plural verbs
depending on the context. (p. 211)
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Textbook Ch. 9, pp. 209-212


7. A sentence that has two subjects joined by and requires a
____________ verb. (p. 211)

8. Singular subjects joined by or, either . . . or, or neither . . .


nor usually take a verb. *If one of the
subjects is singular and the other is plural, the verb agrees
with the one closest to the subject. (p. 211)

9. When a subject has more than one verb, all the verbs
must agree with it, not just the first verb. (p. 211)

10. When the subject is a gerund or infinitive, the verb is


_________________. (p. 211) 7

Textbook Ch. 9, pp. 209-212


2) Verb Tenses
Textbook pp. 209-212

Past Future
Past Simple Future Simple
Past Progressive Future Progressive
Present Past Perfect Future Perfect
Present Simple Past Perfect Progressive Future Perfect Progressive
Present Progressive
Present Perfect ➢ T7.2 Verb Tense - Matching Timeline 8
Present Perfect Progressive (download from Moodle, Week 7 folder)
➢ Ch. 10, Activity 4, pp. 220-221
➢ Ch. 10, Activity 6, p. 223
Must-Do Online Exercises
for Higher GPA !!!!
● chompchomp.com
● Perfect English Grammar
● Learn-English-Today
● Grammar Bank
● English Tenses - Exercises

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Test
(35% Individual)

Week 10 Saturday
Date: 13 November 2021
Time: 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm (2 Hours)
Venues: To be announced (HHB Campus)

** Pay attention to instructions and check your student email regularly!! **


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