Class III English Grammar English Grammar for Class 3

English Grammar Class 3

English Grammar for Class 3

In today’s lesson, we will discuss the basic components of English grammar.

The topics included are sentences, parts of a sentence, nouns, gender of a noun,
number of a noun, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, punctuations and
tenses. The mentioned topics have been discussed in detail along with the
illustrations. Practice questions and solved examples are given throughout the
article for better understanding and concept clarity. Let’s begin the journey on
this amazing topic.

Image: Introduction to Grammar

Sentences
• A sentence is a collection of words that makes sense or is meaningful.
• A sentence consists of a subject and object. They are joined using a
supporting verb.
• For example, The dog is playing. In this sentence, “The dog” is the
subject and “is playing” is the predicate.

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Parts of Sentences
• A sentence is composed mainly of two parts which are one is the subject
and another is the predicate.
• The subject is the main part of a sentence followed by a description.
• The predicate refers to what is described by the subject which could be a
thing or place or any noun. A subject is a noun or pronoun and a predicate
is composed of action words or phrases which are done by the subject.

Image: Types of Sentences

• Sentences could be four types based on the purposes like describing,

questioning, ordering, requesting or expressing emotions of surprise.
• Examples of sentences are, he is a boy.
• What a beautiful flower!
• Who is your mathematics teacher?
• What is your name?

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Noun

Image: Noun
• The noun is an integral part of a sentence.
• It could be the name of a person, the name of a thing, or the name of a
place.
• The nouns could be of different types.
• Proper nouns denote a particular person, place, or thing.
• Collective nouns refer to a collection of things like pebbles and trophies.
• Abstract nouns refer to words that can only be felt and can’t be seen or
heard in real life like happiness, love, and sorrow.

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Image: Nouns Representation

Image: Types of Nouns

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Gender of a Noun
• Nouns could be masculine, feminine or neuter.
• For example, the men live in that room.
• The women live in that room.
• Men is a masculine noun whereas women is a feminine noun.

Noun Number
• A countable noun could be singular or plural.
• To change a singular noun into a plural, the suffixes like ‘s’ and ‘es’ are
added to them.
• For example, Fish is singular and fishes are plural.

Pronouns

Image: Pronouns
• Pronouns are words that could be used in the place of a noun in a
sentence
• A pronoun is capable of replacing a noun in a sentence.
• For example, It is a pronoun used instead of a dog.

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• He is a doctor. “He” is used instead of the name of the doctor.

• She is a swimmer. “She” is used instead of the name of the swimmer.
Examples of sentences with pronouns:
• She is dancing.
• They are singing.
• He is presenting a video.
• She has a lot of pets.
• It is a beautiful garden.

Prepositions
• Prepositions are words that denote the location of a noun or a pronoun.
• For example, the book is on the table. In this sentence, ‘on’ is a
preposition as it shows the location of the book.
• The cat is under the table.
• The pen is inside the box.
• The coffee cup is on the saucer.
• The woman is in the house.

Conjunctions
• The words that join together two sentences, clauses, phrases or words.
• The cat and mouse are running.
• The bat and ball are in the box.
• You can eat amla or orange.

Punctuations
• Punctuation is a collection of symbols that are used in our sentences to
make them clearer to read and understand.

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• We must use proper punctuation marks while writing English.

• Examples of punctuation marks are Full stop (.), Comma (,), Question
Mark (?), Dash (-), Semi-Colon (;), Apostrophe (‘), Mark of Exclamation
(!), Inverted Commas (” “), etc.
• Will you pick me up tonight?
• Hurray! We won.
• My hobbies are dancing, reading, playing sports and reading.

Tenses
• Tenses denote the time during which action has taken place.
• The different types of tenses are present, past and future tenses.
• Present tense denotes an action happening in the present. For example,
He is dancing inside the temple.
• Past tense denotes an action that has already happened in the past. For
example, He danced inside the temple.
• Future tense denotes an action that will/ might happen. For example, He
will dance inside the temple.

Difficult words with Meanings

Word Meaning

Abstract imaginary

Neuter neutral

Interrogative questioning

Inquisitive curious

Possession owning

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Summary
In this chapter, we started with the definition of a sentence, its parts, nouns,
noun number, gender of a noun, pronoun, prepositions, conjunctions,
punctuations and tenses. A sentence has a subject followed by a predicate.
Nouns denote names of different things whereas pronouns are substitutes for
nouns. Tenses denote the time during which action has taken place. We then
discussed the types of nouns and tenses. Practice Questions along with the
answers and the meaning of the difficult words have been discussed in the end.

Practice Questions
1. Fill in the blanks with suitable nouns/ pronouns/ conjunctions/
prepositions. Add appropriate punctuation if required.
1. Tina left ___ sandal outside
2. He is a smart ___
3. Sheetal ___ Harry worked hard to become an Entrepreneur.
4. Kids are having ____ brunch.
5. Last night, she ate crunchies ___ watching a movie.
6. Sheela has finished the food ___ her plate.

2. Identify the subject and predicate in each of these sentences

1. He loves taking a walk.
2. Sam hates snakes.
3. Sheela completed her work.
4. The cat chases the mouse.
Answers:
1. Fill in the blanks with suitable nouns/ pronouns/ conjunctions/
prepositions
1. Tina left her sandal outside.
2. He is a smart boy.

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3. Sheetal and Harry worked hard to become entrepreneurs.

4. Kids are having their brunch.
5. Last night, she ate crunchies while watching a movie.
6. Sheela has finished the food on her plate.
2. Identify the subject and predicate in each of these sentences
1. He/(Subject) loves taking a walk/(Predicate)
2. Sam/(Subject) hates snakes/(Predicate)
3. Sheela/(Subject) completed her work/(Predicate)
4. The cat/(Subject) chases the mouse/(Predicate)

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