Strategy to Answer Paper 2 Section A English UPSR

Section A Sentence Construction

10 questions 10 marks 1 mark for each questions

Guidelines to answer section A

Read the instructions Study the picture Read the words given Indentify the tenses Ask WH questions Write the sentence Check the grammar and punctuation

Remember the sentence structure

Subject
Who?

Verb
Singular or plural?

Storyline
What? When? Why? Where?

Simple Present Tense

Subject

Verb

Storyline

The sells hawker

fruit by the roadside.

Subject

Verb

Storyline

They

keep

their bags in the lockers.

Subject

Verb

Storyline

The man

saves

a boy from drowning.

Simple Past Tense

Subject

Verb

Storyline

Puan fed Minah

her chickens with some grain just now.

Subject

Verb

Storyline

The wind

blew

off the boys hat yesterday.

Subject

Verb

Storyline

The rescued a boy from the fire fireman last week.

Subject

Verb

Storyline

The girls

were

scared of the snake.

Continuous Tense

Subject Verb-tobe

Verb+ing

Storyline

Jane

is

putting some oranges into the refrigerator.

Subject Verb-tobe

Verb+ing

Storyline

The girls

are

walking to school.

Subject Verb-tobe

Verb+ing

Storyline

The children

are

skating on the ice rink.

Subject Verb-tobe

Verb+ing

Storyline

My mother

is

trying

on a pair of shoes.

No verb is given?
Identify the verb! Lets give it a try!

Subject

Verb

Storyline

A has giraffe

a long neck.

Subject

Verb

Storyline

My cooked porridge this mother morning.

Subject

Verb

Storyline

The are scouts collecting

firewood in the forest.

Subject

Verb

Storyline

The jumble sale

was

held to raise funds.

Subject

Verb

Storyline

My uncle

uses

a shovel to dig some holes.

There is/are

Subject

Verb

Storyline

There

are

many people ib the boat.

Subject

Verb

Storyline

There

is

a rainbow in the sky.

Subject

Verb

Storyline

There

are

some biscuits on the table.

Confuse with the preposition?

Subject

Verb

Storyline

are Mei having Ling and her family

a picnic on the beach.

on the farm? ____ ____ by the river? by the roadside? ____ ____ at the bus stop?

Are you ready for the challenge?