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EDITORIAL PANAMERICANA INC.

Authors Juan J. Rodríguez González, Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University Curriculum & Instruction and Language & Literacy Catherine A. Toro Full Professor of English University of Puerto Rico - Bayamón Linguistic and Technical Revision Catherine A. Toro

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Table of Contents

Unit 1 The Sentence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Unit 2 Nouns and Pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Unit 3 Present Tense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Unit 4 Past Tense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Unit 5 Present Continuous Tense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Unit 6 Auxiliary Verbs – Be and Do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Unit 7 Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Unit 8 Prepositions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Unit 9 Adverbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Unit 10 Punctuation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Unit

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The Sentence

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Unit 1: The Sentence

What is a Sentence?

A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought.

Tom is playing.

Ana is playing.

Rosa is reading.

Alex is reading a book.

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milk of milk glass of milk a glass of milk drinking a glass of milk is drinking a glass of milk Robert is drinking a glass of milk.

A. Read along with your teacher.

Draw a circle around the complete sentence.

B. Tell your teacher why it is a complete sentence.

Write the sentence below.

The Sentence The parts of a simple sentence are the subject and the predicate.

Marta reads.

She reads.

The girl reads.

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Unit 1: The Sentence

Juan reads.

He reads.

The boy reads.

A simple sentence is a group of words expressing a complete thought, and it must have a subject and a predicate.

Marta reads. Juan reads.

Marta reads. Juan reads.

Subject Predicate Subject Predicate

A sentence begins with a capital letter.

Tim eats.

The girl walks.

Ana sings.

He runs.

She jumps.

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Draw a circle around the capital letter in each space.

S

f

h

s

F

h

s

f

H

T

f

P

A

a

O

k

j

M

A sentence ends with a period.

Tim eats.

The girl walks.

Ana sings.

He runs.

She jumps.

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Unit 1: The Sentence

★★ Let’s Practice

Unit 1: The Sentence

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A. Draw a circle around the sentence that matches the picture.

1. David is reading a book.

2. Betty is writing.

David is eating pizza.

Betty is running.

3. Mother is washing.

4. Spot is running.

Mother is cooking.

5. Pablo is singing a song.

Spot is eating.

6. Betty is laughing.

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Betty is crying.

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1.

Mary

runs at the park.

The dog

drinks juice.

The boy

walk to school.

They

cooks food.

Dad

likes to sing.

My mother

eats dog food.

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3.

4.

5.

6.

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B. Complete the sentence by tracing a line from the subject to the predicate.

Unit 1: The Sentence

C. Let’s trace and write the sentences.

1.

Mary likes to sing.

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The dog eats dog food.

3.

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They walk to school.

5.

Dad drinks juice.

6.

My mother cooks food.

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Unit 1: The Sentence

D. Look for the words in an old magazine. Cut them out and glue them to make a sentence.

Get a magazine.

Cut out the words.

Glue the words on the paper.

I

like

the

Do

English

class.

car

grammar

like

Line up the words.

English

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the I

1. The tree is green

2. The car is new

3. Father walks to work

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Now it is your turn. Look for the words below in an old magazine.

Cut them out and paste them in the right place to form a sentence. Remember to end each sentence with a period.

Unit 1: The Sentence

E. Draw a line from each sentence to the picture that goes with it.

1. The wagon is red.

2. The ice is cold.

3. The chair has four legs.

4. The cake has a candle.

5. The jacket is pretty. Š Editorial Panamericana, Inc.

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1. I see the

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shoe snake .

2. I see the ball box

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3. I see the cap cat

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4. I see the ring rope

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5. I see the tent tree

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Unit 1: The Sentence

F. Use the picture clues to figure out which word completes each sentence. Circle the correct word and then write it on the line. Remember to end each sentence with a period ( . ).

Unit 1: The Sentence

7. I see the

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tent ten

8. I see the

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beads beans

9. I see the

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eyes ice

10. I see the

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shy sky

11. I see the

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Dan man

12. I see the

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sheep ship

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Unit

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Nouns and Pronouns

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Unit 2: Nouns and Pronouns

Nouns A noun describes people, places or things.

woman

man

children

What are these? These are people.

school

the beach

New York

What are these? These are places.

book

dog

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ball

A. Draw a circle around the nouns represented by people.

Océano Atlántico

Desecheo

Culebra

Mona

Vieques

Mar Caribe

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Unit 2: Nouns and Pronouns

B. Draw a circle around the nouns represented by places.

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C. Draw a circle around the nouns represented by things.

Unit 2: Nouns and Pronouns

Pronouns Pronouns can substitute nouns.

Sandra is writing.

She is writing.

David is playing baseball.

He is playing baseball.

The dog is running.

It is running.

The book is red.

It is red.

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Raymond and Sally are using the computer.

They are using the computer.

The girls are playing basketball.

They are playing basketball.

The boys are playing soccer.

They are playing soccer.

The pets are sleeping.

They are sleeping.

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Unit 2: Nouns and Pronouns

When we refer to more than one person or thing we use they.

Unit 2: Nouns and Pronouns

When we refer to a person we are talking to, or more than one person, we use you.

You can go to the park.

You can go to the park.

When you are talking together to another person use we.

We can go to the park.

When you are talking to another person and refer to yourself use I.

I can go to the park.

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A. Match the word or group of words on the left with the corresponding pronoun on the right.

Margarita they

Superman we

Juan and I she

Manuel, Luis and Berto it

The pencil he

Study the pronouns!

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Unit 2: Nouns and Pronouns

B. Choose the correct pronoun to complete each sentence.

1. ___________________ were late to the party.

(He, I, We)

2. ___________________ think you should wait for the bus.

(She, I, He)

3. After breakfast, ___________________ watches cartoons.

(I, you, he)

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