Ex.1 Put the following words in the right order to make a statement.
Mrs. Winter the little girl to the next village
with a message one December day sent
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So as you see there are two variants of one and the same sentence.
A sentence that makes a statement begins with a capital letter and ends with a period.
Ex.2 Reading the story rearrange the words to make the statements.
A QUIET SORT OF PLACE!
1. my car| I parked| in the centre of the village
2. near a bus stop| an old man | I saw
3. beautiful village| what a | I exclaimed
4. live here | how many people
5. seventeen people| there are | the old man said
6. here| have you lived| how long
7. all my life | I have lived here
8. isn’t it | it’s a quiet sort of place
9. here | a quiet life | we live
10. a cinema | we don’t have | or a theatre
11. our school | five years ago | was closed
12. only one shop | we have
13. calls | a bus | once a day
14. here | in 55 BC | came | the Romans
15. since then | has happened | nothing
Ex.3 Read the following sentences; use the chart to figure out their structure
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Adverbial modifier of |
| manner | place | time |
Edith has a lot of friends. S + P + O
Noris works in the garden. __________________________
George works as a pilot. __________________________
Leon travels a lot. __________________________
Irine loves flowers. __________________________
Sarah lives in a village. __________________________
Heather wakes at seven. __________________________
William loves singing in the shower. __________________________
Olive adores travelling around the country. __________________________
Richard hates cooking together with his wife. __________________________
Dorothy can’t stand someone singing bad. __________________________
Orlando is an actor. __________________________
Rose is beautiful. __________________________
Dick looks like a star. __________________________
Edward is abroad. __________________________
Remember all of them!!!
Ex.4 Read this story and rearrange the words in each sentence in the right order.
So please don’t complain!
1. the local school| attends| my son Tim
2. went| 
to his school| my wife and I| yesterday
3. we| to his teachers| spoke
4. Tim’s school report| we collected
5. very good| wasn’t| Tim’s report
6. in every subject| were| his marks| low
7. was waiting| outside| anxiously for us| Tim
8. my report| how was| eagerly| he asked
9. very good| it wasn’t| I said
10. you| harder| must try
11. seems| that boy Ogilvy| very clever
12. good marks| he got| in all subjects
13. clever parents| Ogilvy| has| Tim said
Ex.5. Underline the sentences that are negative in the story.
ENGLISH WORD ORDER. NEGATIVE STATEMENTS
Any statement can be positive and negative.
+ Since then everything has been the same.
- Since then anything hasn’t been changed.
Since then nothing has happened.
There are two means of negative sentence constructions in English:
(1) with the help of ‘not’-particle - Since then anything hasnotbeen changed.
(2) with the help of such words asno/ neither/ nobody/ never/ nothing. -Since thennothinghas happened.
| Dogs can’t fly. I don’t know why. |
1. Milk is white. (red) 2. The children are at school. (at home) 3. Max has been to Japan. (Egypt) 4. You must give this letter to Erica. (her mother) 5. I’ll be here tomorrow. 6. I could talk when I was 2. (swim) 7. We were in London yesterday. (Birmingham) 8. I’m Scottish. (English)
To make a negative sentence we put NOT after an auxiliary verb.