Q&A - P4 English

[Emelyn]

jesschan:

Just a thought - maybe you can try drawing colourful mind maps, say group according to mammals. fishes, birds etc... or wild and domestic animals...

Hmm.... good idea.... let me try.....

[corneyAmber]

Muffins:

Oh... :imsorry: ks2me

Not a sausage, Muffin.
:celebrate:

[Muffins]

:celebrate:

[shirley.020816tamzil]

for \"I\", to use \"was\" or \"were\"? very confused about this... :?

[rains]

‘Was’ is the past tense of ‘am’. So effectively, ‘I’ always goes with ‘was’.


‘Were’ is used in imaginary circumstances, not just for ‘I’ alone.

eg. ‘If I were him, I would …’, ‘If she were him, she would …’, ‘If you were him, …’, ‘If he were him …’ etc

Hope this helps. I haven’t gone into extensive research on whether there are other circumstances that ‘were’ is used with ‘I’ though. Just sharing with you what I have come across.

[janet88]

Hi Rains/Jess,

'Nice to see you here.

Hi Emelyn,
My daughter is learning the young of the adults in her K2 class.
Last week’s spelling:

Foal is young of Horse (I don’t even remember my son learning this in K2 then).
Calf is young of Cow.
Puppy is young of Dog
Kitten is young of Cat.
Chick is young of Hen.

[shirley.020816tamzil]

Need help:


My cousin watched a magician ____________ tricks in a circus when he was in Russia.

1. perform
2. performed
3. performs
4. was performing

My DS answered 2 but the answer sheet says it should be 1. We both did not understand why. :?

[tianzhu]

Hi


Please refer to thread by TAS.
http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=35&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=270

Best wishes

[shirley.020816tamzil]

Then shouldn’t it be "3. performs" since it’s one magician only?

[rains]

hi shirley,


As discussed in another English thread (PSLE English I think), the word ‘watched’ here is called ‘verb of perception’.

When you have verbs of perception in the first part of the sentence, the following verb (‘perform’ in your case) is called a ‘bare infinitive’ (without -s, -ed or -ing) eg. I saw him steal; They heard her sing.

Such verbs (of perception) include:feel, hear, listen to, notice, observe, perceive, see, sense, watch.

If you realise, these verbs have to do with ‘perception’ - how you perceive.

Hope this helps.