Word Order

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• Studiejaar 1

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

Adverbs of frequency

Tell how often something happens.

Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Often, Usually, Always

Adjectives often come before the noun that they describe. 

Examples:
 
The smart teacher taught the quiet students.
 
The happy students listened to the serious teacher.

Adjectives can also be placed at the end of a sentences by using a stative verbs. (Stative verbs express a state rather than an action: seem, love, be, is, know.)
Examples:
 
The teacher is smart. The students are quiet.
The students seem happy, but the teacher looks serious.

Adverbs

In English, we never put an adverb between a verb and the object.

Correct: She always cooks pizza.

Incorrect: She cooks always pizza.

 At the front of the sentence, before the subject

    Yesterday, the teacher taught the students.

    Suddenly, I ran to the door.

    At the corner, she turned right.

 At the end of a sentence, after the object

The students will take the test tomorrow.

John invited his friends too.

She will arrive home in an hour.

3. In the middle of a sentence (before or after the verb) or in the middle of a group of verbs

She often studies before class.

The student works quietly at her desk

Lisa has nearly finished the race.

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.

Choose the sentence with the correct word order.

1. Did he completely tell the truth yesterday?
2. Did he tell completely the truth yesterday?
3. Did he tell the truth completely yesterday?
4. Did he tell the truth yesterday completely?

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