Word Order

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Lesson 1 ISAD

Word Order (might be handy)

Goals

You will know how to make a correct sentence in English

Word order

1. The sentence

The word order in sentences is: Subject – Verb  – Object.
Subject     Verb     Object
I     play     football.
Max     reads     books.
We     can speak     English.
Sue     is singing     a nice song.

subject = noun or pronoun

The person, place, or thing that the sentence is about

verb = action or state of being
one verb or a verb phrase

object = the noun or nouns that receives the action of the verb or is affected by the action of the verb

Sleepvraag

A sentence can have 5 grammatical parts, put these in the correct order:

Who

Does

What

Where

When

Choose the sentence with the correct word order.

1. Who swims every day in the canal?
2. Who swims in the canal every day?

Choose the sentence with the correct word order.

1. My sister got married last year.
2. Last year my sister got married.
3. Both are correct, no difference in meaning.
4. Both are correct, there is a difference in meaning.

Choose the sentence with the correct word order.

1. They often go out in the weekends.
2. They go often out in the weekends.

Correct word order:
Billy / to his friend / five minutes ago / next door / went

1. Billy went to his friend five minutes ago next door.
2. Billy went next door to his friend five minutes ago.
3. Billy went five minutes ago next door to his friend.
4. Billy went to his friend next door five minutes ago.

Correct word order:
her / in town / yesterday / I / met

1. I met her in town yesterday.
2. I met her yesterday in town.
3. I yesterday met her in town.
4. I met yesterday her in town.

Sleepvraag

Een zin kan uit 5 onderdelen bestaan. Zet deze in de juiste volgorde

Wie

Doet

Wat

Waar 

Wanneer

Tenses