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Primary 2: Rev Up! English

Anyone can be helpful, no matter how young or old they are. Being helpful means
looking around to see how we can do something for someone, to make their lives
a little easier. As an eight-year-old boy or girl, what can you do to help others?

Helpful People I Know:

What do they do to help others?

POLICE OFFICERS PREFECTS
1. They protect people in
1. They carry
my neighbourhood. books for
teachers
2. They help us to find
things we have lost. 2. They help to
keep the pupils
quiet during
assembly

Me!

1. I can

at home.

2. I

in school.

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Look at the two sentences below: Primary 2: Rev Up! English
1. Danny walk to the shop.
2. Danny and Fred walks to the shop.

Are these sentences correct? If not, correct them below by matching the
different parts of the sentences:

Danny  o walk to the shop.
Danny and Fred  o walks to the shop.

Subject-verb Agreement Rules

You learnt about subject-verb agreement in an earlier lesson.
Do you remember the rules?

Rule No 1: In a sentence where the simple present tense is used,

A singular (one) noun needs a singular verb.
e.g. The spider crawls around the web.

A plural (many) noun needs a plural verb.
e.g. The spiders crawl around the web.

Rule No 2: When using the singular form of the verb, you need to add
‘s’, or ‘es’, or ‘ies’ to the verb.

E.g.
1. They walk.  He walks.
2. The athletes catch the ball.  The athlete catches the ball.
3. The babies cry.  The baby cries.

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Exercise 1: Fill in the chart with the correct form of the given verb.

Noun/ Noun: Noun: Noun: Noun: Noun: Noun:
Verb We The I Peter Peter and You

Verb: student Anna
To ‘be’
is

Verb:
Fly

Verb:
Watch

Verb:
Have

Verb:
Do

Singular Indefinite Pronouns

The pronouns in the table below are called singular indefinite pronouns. We
use the singular verb forms with them.

‘-one’ ‘-body’ ‘-thing’

Anyone Anybody Anything

Everyone Everybody Everything

Someone Somebody Something

No one Nobody Nothing

Look at the sentences below. Circle the correct form of the verb.
1. Everyone ( is , are ) ready for the test.
2. Someone ( jumps , jump ) at the sound.

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Two Nouns in a Sentence

Look at the sentence: The boy with the puppies smile/smiles at his mother.
Do we use the singular verb smiles or the plural verb smile?
Ask yourself who is doing the action: the boy or the puppies?
The answer is the boy.
Since the boy is a singular noun, we use the singular verb smiles.

The boy with the puppies smiles at his mother.

Exercise 2: Circle the correct form of the verb in each sentence. If you
are unsure, ask yourself: who is doing the action?

e.g. My grandmother and I buys / buy a cake at the bakery.
Doing the action: my grandmother and I

1. Peter and his cousins takes / take the bus.
Who is doing the action?

2. The student with all the books tries / try to climb the stairs.
Who is doing the action?

3. Every morning, my brother, my sister and I walks / walk to the beach.
Who is doing the action?

4. The rain and the thunder makes / make the baby scream.
Who is doing the action?

5. The man with the three boxes shouts / shout at the driver of the van.
Who is doing the action?

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Exercise 3: Choose the correct answer for each sentence and
write its letter in the provided.

1. My friends and I to go (a) likes
to the Singapore Zoo. (b) like

2. I don’t think anyone in this old house. (a) lives
(b) live

3. Her neighbour fishing every Saturday. (a) goes
(b) go
4. Springleaf Primary School
many good athletes. (a) has
(b) have

5. The sun behind the clouds. (a) hides
(b) hide
6. No one how the fire started.
(a) know
7. The teacher with the long hair (b) knows
me English.
(a) teach
(b) teaches

8. Someone a drink in the train. (a) spill
(b) spills
9. Some birds very high.
(a) fly
10. The little girl, the old man and the (b) flies

old lady the road together. (a) cross
(b) crosses

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Primary 2: Rev Up! English

Exercise 4: Review: Simple Past Tense and Past Continuous Tense.

Simple Past Tense
We use past tense to talk about something that has happened in the past.

1. The students (write) their compositions quietly in class just
now.
(rise) early yesterday.
2. Ali (hurt) his leg badly in an accident last year.

3. My brother

Past Continuous Tense

We use the past continuous tense for actions which were going on (incomplete)
at a particular time in the past.

4. The balloon (float) away.

5. My mother (cook) dinner while
(watch) television.
I

Simple Past Tense and Past Continuous Tense

We use the past continuous tense with the simple past tense when we want to
show that one thing happened in the middle of another thing.

6. As I (do) my homework, the telephone (ring).

7. He (jog) in the park when his classmate

(shout) out his name.

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Exercise 5: Fill in the blanks with the correct words. .
1. While the teacher was teaching, Jason

sleep sleeps slept is sleeping

2. Everyone about the new ice skating rink now.
talk
talks talked was talking

3. It is Sunday! We to the beach to play!
go goes
is going were going

4. Someone my bag in the rubbish bin last night.
throw
threw is throwing were throwing

5. As he was bathing, he the front door open.

hear heard is hearing was hearing

6. As I was watching the movie, a ghost suddenly on the
screen.

appear appears appeared was appearing

7. While I was playing outside, my father his car.
was cleaning
cleans cleaned are cleaning

8. Oliver a new ruler now. His old one broke this morning.
need
needs is needing was needing

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Exercise 6: Fill in each blank with the most suitable word.

are leave left take talked
were
took want wants was

Sam was my Head Prefect last year. He was well-liked by all of us. He

was always lending a helping hand when the students

(1) in need. He (2) firm and yet

fair in treating the students. Everyone respected him. When Sam

(3) our school, we all missed him.

Sam and I lived close to each other then. We (4)
the same bus to school sometimes. Whenever we met, we
(5) about school. We would also try to (6)
for home together.

I am in Primary 2 now. I think the prefects (7) like
my older brothers and sisters. They (8) good care
of the younger students. Sadly, no one in my class

(9) to be a prefect, but I do. When I am older, I
(10) to be a prefect just like Sam!

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