Q&A - P4 English

[mother777]

Yes \"much\" is a clue..


Well to me, \"says\" and \"to be\" are also the clues as these indicate that the event hasn't occurred yet.

So option 1 \"is\" is correct..

If we replace \"says\" with SAID and remove \"to be\"

We can use \"was\". The new sentence will become..
Much of what the witness SAID \"was\" not believed..

Just my humble opinion

[Happystar328]

Thank you for helping.

[sembgal]

mother777:

Yes \"much\" is a clue..


Well to me, \"says\" and \"to be\" are also the clues as these indicate that the event hasn't occurred yet.

So option 1 \"is\" is correct..

If we replace \"says\" with SAID and remove \"to be\"

We can use \"was\". The new sentence will become..
Much of what the witness SAID \"was\" not believed..

Just my humble opinion

Agree with you.

[My Tuition Haven]

The aim for the P4 SA1 results should be 85 and above. Anything lower than that, should be noted and parents should begin to work on the weak areas, be it grammar, vocabulary or writing.


During this June holidays, start your child practising on Synthesis and Transformation, short Comprehension Cloze passages and writing compositions with a Situation Outline only (no Pictures). Your child should begin to be able to create story ideas and develop characters without the use of pictures as a guide.
This is the year to rectify the common grammar mistakes your child makes because there will hardly be time to do so in P5. A good grammatical foundation is essential to your child's English Language.
Revise Simple Past Tense, Present Perfect, Conditional Tenses (Zero to 2nd Conditional ), Question Tags, Active and Passive and start introducing lists of Phrasal verbs to learn. Your child must know his Past Participles very well because it is frequently used in English grammar and later in P5/6 it is found in synthesis, SPG and in almost every component.

Phrasal Verbs
These websites http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/phrasal-verbs-list.htm, http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/phrasals.htm have thorough lists of Phrasal verbs and their meanings.

Conditional Tenses
Zero : If + Present tense + Present Tense
1st Conditional : If + Present Tense + will (shall/may/can)
2nd Conditional : If + Simple Past (subjunctive) + would (should/could).
http://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Conditional_tense

I use the Casco Primary English book (get the P5 one) for my lists of Simple Past tense, Past Particples, Active Passive and Question Tags. The Longman Effective Grammar book is great for drilling grammatical structures and spotting the areas where your child needs more practice.

[winnie_pooh]

Hi My Tuition Haven


Are you a tutor?

[jwxh]

hi, would appreciate if anyone could help and explain. Tks


Daniel, my brother, is more intelligent than _________.
(1) me (2) her (3) mine (4) I

Anyone who _________ the newspaper will know about the robbery yesterday.
(1) read (2) has read (3) reading (4) had been reading

[sembgal]

jwxh:

hi, would appreciate if anyone could help and explain. Tks


Daniel, my brother, is more intelligent than _________.
(1) me (2) her (3) mine (4) I

Anyone who _________ the newspaper will know about the robbery yesterday.
(1) read (2) has read (3) reading (4) had been reading

1st Answer: 1

2nd Answer: 2

[jwxh]

question 1 : why not ‘I’?


question 2 : time is known i.e. yesterday, so i thought shd use past tense, so
the answer shd be (1)?

[XXXX]

jwxh:

question 1 : why not 'I'?


question 2 : time is known i.e. yesterday, so i thought shd use past tense, so
the answer shd be (1)?

1. \"Me\" is definitely correct.
\"...than I am\" would be ok, but never \"than I\".

2. \"read\" would mean anyone who reads papers generally, so you would have to add \"today\" or \"this morning\" in the sentence to give a sense of time; whereas \"has read\" ties specifically to knowing in the continuous present tense about something specific that has happened yesterday.

\"Read\" is not exactly wrong, it's just that \"has read\" is much better.

That probably doesn't help much. Sorry.

[grammartots]

jwxh:

hi, would appreciate if anyone could help and explain. Tks


Daniel, my brother, is more intelligent than _________.
(1) me (2) her (3) mine (4) I

Anyone who _________ the newspaper will know about the robbery yesterday.
(1) read (2) has read (3) reading (4) had been reading

The correct answer is choice 4, \"I\".

The argument for the subjective \"I\" comes from ellipsis:

(1) Daniel, my brother, is more intelligent than I am.

The \"am\" is ellipted. (I've written about this topic at http://grammartots.blogspot.sg/2012/10/than-me-or-than-i.html)

Additionally, if you look at the choices, both \"me\" and \"her\" are object pronouns. So if you accept \"me\" as the answer, you also would have to accept \"her\".

For question (2), the answer is \"has read\", choice 2. The noun \"yesterday\" modifies \"the robbery\", and does not affect the verb within the \"who\" clause.

(2) Anyone who has read the newspaper will know about the robbery yesterday.

We use the present perfect \"has read\" to show that there's some connection between the robbery that took place in the past and the present time - people react to it today.

If you wanted \"yesterday\" to modify the verb \"read\", we could rewrite sentence (2) as follows:

(3) Anyone who read the newspaper yesterday will know about the robbery.