English I - Writing Project
English I - Writing Project
TEACHER:
SCHEDULE:
Writing Project
Level 1
Universidad de Guadalajara
January 2018
Write 5 sentences:
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2.
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5.
What is a phrase?
A group of words without a subject or a verb is called a phrase.
Phrases can be very short – or very long. Two examples of phrases are:
“After dinner”
“For the rain to stop”.
Write three more phrases:
1.
2.
3.
Subject Verb Agreement
Subject Verb Agreement is a very important concept in English grammar. This will
give you the basics about English grammar rules for subject verb agreement and how
to use them in your exams:
Example:
The taste of the apples was not good.
In this, the subject is: “The taste of the apples” and the verb is ‘was’.
The subject does not refer to the apples but to the taste of them that´s why the subject
“the taste of the apples” is singular and it uses the singular verb ‘was’.
RULE 1: The subject and verb must agree in number: both must be singular, or both
must be plural.
Example: The car belongs to my brother. (SINGULAR)
They also play football.(PLURAL)
RULE 2: The number of the subject (singular or plural) is not changed by words(or a
phrase) that come in between the subject and the verb.
Example: One of the boxes is open.
Here, the subject “one” and the verb “is” are both singular.
RULE 3: Some subjects always take a singular verb even though the meaning may
seem plural.
Example: Someone in the game was (not were) hurt.
RULE 4: The following words may be singular or plural, depending upon their use in a
sentence: some, any, all, most.
Example: Most of the food is good. (singular)
Most of the flowers were yellow. (plural)
RULE 5: Subjects joined by “and” are plural. Subjects joined by “or” or “nor” take a
verb that agrees with the last subject.
Example: Bob and George are leaving.
Neither Bob nor George is leaving.
RULE 6: “There” and “here” are never subjects. In sentences that begin with these
words, the subject is usually found later on in the sentence.
Example: There were five books on the shelf. (were, agrees with the subject “book”)
RULE 7: Collective nouns may be singular or plural, depending on their use in the
sentence.
Examples: The orchestra is playing a song. (Orchestra is considered as one unit—
singular)
The orchestra was asked to give their musical backgrounds. (Orchestra is considered
as separate units-plural)
RULE 8: Some nouns, while plural in form, are actually singular in meaning. Nouns
such as ‘civics,’ ‘mathematics,’ ‘dollars,’ and ‘news’ require singular verbs.
Example: Mathematics is (not are) an easy subject for some people.
RULE 9: “Doesn’t” is a contraction of “does not” and should be used only with a singular
subject. “Don’t” is a contraction of “do not” and should be used only with a plural subject.
Example: He doesn’t (does not) like it.
Task 1.
9. The movie, including all the previews, (take, takes) about two hours to watch.
Capitalization
Capitalization is the writing of a word with its first letter in uppercase and the
remaining letters in lowercase. There are many rules. Here are some basic ones:
1.
A. Her favorite holiday is christmas.
B. Her favorite holiday is Christmas.
C. her favorite holiday is christmas.
2.
A. The show is on Friday.
B. the show is on Friday.
C. The show is on friday.
3.
A. Mary is chinese and lives in Puerto Rico.
B. Mary is chinese and lives in puerto rico.
C. Mary is Chinese and lives in Puerto Rico.
4.
A. Javier and i like to go to the park.
B. Javier and I like to go to the park.
C. Javier and I like to go to the Park.
Task 3. (optional)
Kahoot
Extra practice:
BASIC PUNCTUATION RULES
Colon
Question Mark
Apostrophe
*Note: symbols ¿,! and ´ are not used in English so please be careful when you
are using a keyboard in Spanish.
Task 4.
1.
A) My childrens toys are always in the following places: my room, their room
and in the living room.
B) My children's toys are always in the following places, my room, their room
and in the living room.
C) My children's toys are always in the following places: my room, their room
and in the living room.
2.
A) What is your teachers name?
B) What is your teacher’s name?
C) What is your teacher’s name!
3.
A) Hey, watch out for that car?
B) Hey, watch out for that car.!
C) Hey, watch out for that car!
4.
A) My grandmother lives across the street. From the school.
B) My grandmother lives across the street from the school.
C) My grandmother lives' across the street from the school.
Task 5.
1. My mother is a doctor and she loves her job she works 12 hours a day.
Extra practice:
Final task
Betty´s Family
Step 1: Find the 34 mistakes and mark them using the editing symbols on the next page.
Mistake 1: Betty
My name is betty and I have a really nice family it is not a big one, but its perfect for
me we are four members my mom my dad my brother and i my mom is from los
angeles California and shes a teacher at michigan state university my dad is from são
paulo brazil and he is a lawyer at martin & associates my brother and I am studying
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EDITING SYMBOLS
INSTRUCTIONS: check the boxes you can answer yes to under student´s self-evaluation.
Final Evaluation
Grading
Student´s Teacher´s
Self- evaluation evaluation
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