English Grammar Grade 3,4 2023

Suffixes:
Suffixes are letters added to the end of a base word to change its conjugation, word type, or other
grammar properties like plurality. For example, take the noun strength: You can add the suffix –s to
make it plural (strengths) or the suffix –en to change it into a verb (strengthen).
Suffixes to make Adverbs:
Regular and irregular verbs:
Regular verbs follow typical conjugation patterns (like dance/danced/danced ), whereas irregular
verbs do not (like drive/drove/driven ).
It is the simple past tense and past participle of an irregular verb that has no usual pattern to follow.
Take the verb hide as another example: ○ He hid in the closet. (Simple past tense) ○ He had
hidden in the closet several times before. (Past participle).
Modal Verbs and contraction:
What are modal verbs?
Will, would, can, could, may, might, shall, should, must, ought to are the modal verbs in the English
language.
What is contraction ?
A contraction is the short form of two words that are combined. For example: I am 👉 I'm. You make
a contraction by putting two words together, taking out some letters, and replacing them with an
apostrophe ( ' ).
aren't → are not ,
there's → there is; there has. ,
can't → can not.
they'd → they had;
they would. couldn't → could not.
they'll → they will; they shall.
didn't → did not.
they're → they are.
Pronouns:
A pronoun is a word that stands in for a noun, often to avoid the need to repeat the same noun
over and over. Like nouns, pronouns can refer to people, things, concepts, and places. Most
sentences contain at least one noun or pronoun.
Pronoun examples:
Type Pronouns in this category
Personal: I/me, they/them, he/him, she/her, it, we/us, you
Relative :That, what, which, who, whom
Demonstrative :That, this, these, those
IndefiniteOne, other, some, none, everybody, anybody, no one, nobody, both
Prefixes: A letter or group of letters that is added at the beginning of a word.

Prefixes (Non and Mis):

Noun Phrases:
What is a noun phrase example?
A noun phrase is either a pronoun or any group of words that can be replaced by a pronoun. For
example, 'they', 'cars', and 'the cars' are noun phrases, but 'car' is just a noun, as you can see in
these sentences (in which the noun phrases are all in bold)
Q: Do you like cars? A: Yes, I like them.
Conjunctions (Coordinating and subordinating):
What is an example of a subordinating conjunction?
Some examples of such subordinating conjunctions are once, while, when, whenever, where,
wherever, before, and after. Once Batman learned that Robin had not been wearing his seat belt,
he took his keys to the Batmobile.
Adverbs:
What is an adverb?
An adverb is a word which adds to the meaning of a verb. It tells us how a thing is done, when it is
done, or where it is done. E.g. the old man walked slowly. ( How)
Relative pronouns and clauses:
A relative pronoun is a word like “that” or “which” or “who”, Whom’’ so a relative clause is a
clause that begins with a relative pronoun. In the sentence “The dragon who breathed blue fire
has retired,” “who breathed blue fire” is a relative clause.
Comparative and superlative:
To form the comparative and superlative forms of a one syllable adjective, add -er for the
comparative form and -est for the superlative. To form comparatives and superlatives for most
words that have two or more syllables and don't end in y, use the words more and most or less
and least before the adjective.
Articles:
Articles are words that are used before nouns. The three articles used in English are 'a', 'an', and
'the'. They show the number of singular nouns (a, an) and also specify which noun is being
described (the).
Quantifies:
What are quantifiers for Grade 3?
What are quantifiers? A quantifier is a word or phrase which is used before a noun to
indicate the amount or quantity: 'Some', 'many', 'a lot of' and 'a few' are examples of
quantifiers. Quantifiers can be used with both countable and uncountable nouns.

Demonstrative pronouns:
This, that, these and those are the demonstrative pronouns in the English language.
Interrogative:
An interrogative sentence is a sentence that asks a question and ends in a question mark?
Future tense:
In grammar, the future tense is the verb form you use to talk about things that haven't happened
yet. When you say, "The party will be so fun!" "will be" is in the future tense. Whenever you write
or talk about things that you expect to happen later, you use the future tense.