Oh My Grammar!

Oh My Grammar!

by: Azhan Aminy

Day 1 in English class.

     Grammar are very important and helpful in meeting the writing process goals of ensuring the clear communication of ideas. In my first English class, we were learning about grammar with our new English lecturer, Madam Hamizah Osman. Before we start our lesson, she listed a very important English skills such as listening, writing, speaking and reading. All of these skills are very important to learn English. Then, we had an ice breaking. We mutually recognize each other. Besides, she’d gave us motivation words, “We must know how to work our brain.”  That’s all for our first English class at Kolej Poly-Tech Mara Ipoh.    

Day 2 in English class.

      On the next class, Madam Hazimah teach us about “Part of Speech.” The first part of speech that we learned are Nouns. Even though I’ve studied this topic, but I still do not quite understand what is nouns actually. There are five types of nouns, common nouns, proper nouns, abstract nouns, collective nouns, compound nouns. For example of collective nouns, this type of nouns is referring to groups of things there are regarded as one such as “ a team of athletes”. With Madam Hamizah assistance, the whole class easily understand the basics of grammar. While she was teaching a little faster, but the explanation was obvious. Then, we learned more about common nouns. There are two types of common nouns, countable nouns (can be counted) and uncountable nouns, as well as we taught by Madam Hamizah.

Day 3 in English class.

      We still learning about part of speech, but this time the topic was pronouns.A pronoun usually stands alone and does not follow with a noun. There are seven types of pronouns such as, Personal Pronouns (subject and object), Possessive Pronouns (including possessive adjective), Reflexive Pronouns, Relative Pronouns, Demonstrative Pronouns, Indefinite Pronouns, Interrogative Pronouns. For the first time, I studied this types of pronouns. I don’t even know each of those types. Then, Madam Hazimah explained one by one until we all understand and know how tu used pronouns in building sentences. There are many explanations about this topic that we got by Madam Hazimah but I could not afford to list them all. That’s all that we have learned for day 2 in English class.

Day 4 in English class.

      In the last day class before the raya holidays begin, we still kept focus on our lesson. Madam Hamizah teach us about Subject-Verb Agreement and  Articles and Determiners. What I’ve learned about Subject-Verb Agreement is a subject (noun or pronoun) and a verb in a sentence must always agree with one another. This means if the subject is singular, the verb must be singular, and if the subject is plural, the verb must also be plural. For example, “She is absent today”. The lesson help me a lot to improved my grammar, but I’m still learning to reinforce my grammar. Madam Hamizah has helped me and my friends in improving our grammar and gives a motivation word to us. I hope that Madam Hamizah can teach us until we able to passed English examination with flying colours.