Grammar Bank

1A  possessive ’s 1.1 Right or wrong? Tick (3) or correct the sentences.
Example  My friends name is Jane.  My friend’s name is Jane.
Use the possessive ’s to say who something belongs to. 1 Her parents’ names are Luis and Eva.
after a singular noun apostrophe + s Anna’s surname is Conde. 2 Mr Jones is my brothers teacher. They don’t like him.
My dog’s name is Rover. 3 Our teacher’s name is Marcus.
after a plural noun apostrophe + s Our children’s names are Sue and 4 Guy Ritchie is Madonnas husband.
that doesn’t end with s Rod. 5 Their names are Mike and Joe.
after a plural noun apostrophe My brothers’ names are Ruy and 6 That’s Mrs Smiths childrens school.
that ends with s Edson.
1.2 Complete the text with the verbs in the correct form.
>> Now go to exercise 1.1 to practise. Duane ’s be an English teacher. He 1 teach in a
university in Libya. He 2 work from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
1B  present simple -s / -es endings every day. When he 3
and 5
finish work, he 4
have dinner. In the evenings, he 6
walk home
watch
Use s / es to make the third person singular. football on TV or he 7 study Arabic. At the weekend, he
most verbs +s I / You / We / They start 8 go to an Internet café and 9 read his emails.
He / She / It starts
1.3 Complete the questions. Use the correct form of be or do.
verbs ending with + es I / You / We / They finish
Example  What is his mobile phone number?
o / s / sh / ch / x He / She / It finishes
verbs ending with y y + ies I / You / We / They study 1 these your children?
He / She / It studies 2 Who your teacher last year?
3 Peter work in an office?
>> Now go to exercise 1.2 to practise. 4 What she doing now?
5 you like your job?
1C  be and do in questions 6
7 Where
you send Tom an email last week?
they yesterday?
be do
8 Which your desk?
present Are you the new boss? Do you like your job?
How is Holly? Where does Anna work? 1.4 Complete the sentences. Put the verb in the present continuous
past Were you late for work? Did they go to work? or the present simple.
Where was Justin? Which watch did he buy? Example  Who is Anna speaking to now? speak
>> Now go to exercise 1.3 to practise. 1 Justin’s lazy. He much work. not / do
2 you an email now? write
present simple and present continuous 3 I on Saturdays. not / work
4 Justin the computers every day. check
Use the present simple to talk about things that happen sometimes 5 Shh! I to the teacher. listen
or all the time, and things that are generally true. 6 Where they from? come
+ – ? 7 We now. not / study
I / You / We / They go to I / You / We / They don’t Do I / you / we / they go 8 She to work by bus. go
work. go to work. to work?
1.5 Right or wrong? Tick (3) or correct the sentences.
He / She / It goes to work. He / She / It doesn’t go Does he / she / it go to Example  This is Hans. His my secretary.
to work. work? This is Hans. He’s my secretary.
Use the present continuous to talk about what’s happening now. 1 Are these your books?
+ – ? 2 Its is a very good dictionary.
I’m driving to work. I’m not driving to work. Am I driving to work? 3 Mr Crawley is we English teacher.
4 My birthday is in June.
You / We / They’re driving You / We / They aren’t Are you / we / they driving
to work. driving to work. to work? 5 Him watches football a lot.
6 What’s they address?
He / She / It’s driving to He / She / It isn’t driving Is he / she / it driving to
work. to work. work? 7 How old is she?
8 What does him do?
>> Now go to exercise 1.4 to practise.

subject pronouns and possessive adjectives

Use subject pronouns with verbs.
Use possessive adjectives with verbs.
subject pronouns I you he she it we they
possessive adjectives my your his her its our their
>> Now go to exercise 1.5 to practise.

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