Expanding the Subject and Object

 Lesson 11 - 28 February 2023

Expanding the Suject and Predicate

e.g.

a) The dog wagged its tail. (5 words)

    The huge black dog wagged its long bushy tail.        (9 words)

b) His Majesty, the King of Brunei arrived at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport where he was welcomed by the His Majesty DYMM Sultan Abdullah and other dignitaries. (27 words)

Now, let us try to impress others!

1. My father came yesterday.

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2. The bridge is opened in 1984.

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3. We were surprised by the team.

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4. Gunung Kinabalu is located in Sabah.

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Getting the structure right

 Lesson 10 - The Structure Subject + Verb + Object (7 February 2023)

Fill up the table with the words showing Subject + Verb + Object

e.g.

Subject	Verb	Object
The dog	wags	its tail

News extract:

AZMARIN, Syria: A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked wide swaths of Turkey and Syria early Monday, toppling hundreds of buildings and killing more than 1,300 people . Hundreds were still believed to be trapped under rubble, and the toll was expected to rise as rescue workers searched mounds of wreckage in cities and towns across the area.

On both sides of the border, residents jolted out of sleep by the pre-dawn quake rushed outside on a cold, rainy and snowy night. Buildings were reduce to piles of pancaked floors, while major aftershocks, some nearly as strong as the first, continued.

Rescue workers and residents in multiple cities searched for survivors, working through tangles of metal and concrete. A hospital in Turkey collapsed, and patients, including newborns, were evacuated from facilities in Syria.

Fill up the table with the components from the sentences found in the news extract:

Subject	Verb	Object
e.g. A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake	rocked	wide swaths of Turkey and Syria early Monday...

Fill the table with the rest of the sentences from the news extract:

Subject	Verb	Object

DIYABAKIR, Turkey: The most powerful earthquake to strike Turkey and Syria in nearly a century killed over 2,300 people on Monday, sparked frantic rescues and was felt as far away as Greenland.

The 7.8-magnitude early morning quake, followed by dozens of aftershocks, wiped out entire sections of major Turkish cities in a region filled with millions who have fled Syria's civil war and other conflicts.

Rescuers used heavy equipment and their bare hands to peel back rubble in search of survivors, who they could in some cases hear begging for help under the debris.

"Since I live in an earthquake zone, I am used to being shaken," said Melisa Salman, a reporter in the Turkish city of Kahramanmaras.

The head of Syria's National Earthquake Centre, Raed Ahmed, called it "the biggest earthquake recorded in the history of the centre".

At least 810 people died in rebel and government-controlled parts of Syria, state media and medical sources said, while Turkish officials reported another 1,498 fatalities.

The initial quake was followed by dozens of aftershocks, including a 7.5-magnitude tremor that jolted the region in the middle of search and rescue work on Monday afternoon.

 

Fill up the table with proper components of the sentences found in the news extract

Subject	Verb	Object