Word/Sentence Building/Grammar Exercises

Sentence Explosion

See how many ways you can change these sentences by adding to the front/middle/back.

Make sure your sentences make sense, and your adding has enhanced them not made them clunky.

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Grammar Exercise

Fill in the space with the missing word.

1. You _____ put your shoes on.

2. You should ______put your shoes on.

3. We _____ no money left.

4. We would ______ no money left if we didn't save it.

4 They _____ got 3 tries.

5. They might ______ got 3 tries if he had run faster.

6. We _______ gone to the movies.

7. We could ______ gone to the movies if we had not missed the bus.

Write down sentences using two of these words

current

currently

concurrently

recurrent

1. He was studying the sciences and the arts _____________

2. What is the __________ temperature outside?

3. A ___________ problem was Tom's absence from school.

4. The topic we are ___________ studying is called Art Alive

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Fortune

Noun: Fortune, misfortune fortuitousness

Adjective: fortunate, misfortunate, unfortunate, fortuitous, unfortuitous

Adverb: fortunately, unfortunately, misfortunately, fortuitously, unfortuitously

1. It was very ____________ that he just missed the bus by minutes.

2. He slipped and _________ just missed, by millimeters, slashing his head on a sheet of metal.

3. It was his __________ that the rain came just as he left the house.

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Express

Noun: expression expressionist expressionism

Verb: express

Adjective: expressive unexpressive expressionless

Adverb expressively expressionlessly

What words fit in this word family?

1. Picasso's is often classified in the group of painters whose style is known as _____________

2. The speech was so boring as the speaker spoke ____________ . His voice was a monotone.

3. It is important to use __________ when recording your voice overs.

4. The painter tried to _________ the theme of loneliness by using dark colours.

5. "I love it," said declared _________.

TERM 1 WEEK

Word Families

content

What words fit in this word family?

nouns -contentment discontentment

adjective - content discontent

adverb - contentedly discontentedly

From the words we generate which fits where?

1. The cat slept _________ on Tom's lap.

2.She felt quite _______ with her painting so she left it to dry.

3. Tiara slammed her book shut _______, feeling frustrated at not being able to make sense of it.

4. With ____________ she looked at her newly weeded garden and smiled.

5. The scowl on his face, as he opened he envelope, showed his __________ with his results.

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