Is It Grammatical?

  • Post category:Grammar

Topic: Verbs To-Be

Mode: Interpretive

Level: Novice

Students will decide whether each sentence is grammatical or ungrammatical. 

Components of this activity: Statements with answers in bold.

Instructions to the teacher

Assign the following task to students

Instructions to students 

Decide whether each sentence below is grammatical or ungrammatical. 

  1. He am tired. ungrammatical
  2. I am tired. grammatical
  3. Mary is unhappy. grammatical
  4. John is unhappy. grammatical
  5. They am angry. ungrammatical
  6. They is angry. ungrammatical
  7. We am bored. ungrammatical
  8. We are bored. grammatical
  9. He is mad. grammatical
  10. She are mad. ungrammatical
  11. We are students. grammatical
  12. They are from Nepal. grammatical
  13. Anuj are Nepali. ungrammatical
  14. Molly am happy. ungrammatical
  15. She are a student. ungrammatical
  16. You is smart. ungrammatical
  17. They are fine. grammatical
  18. I am sad. grammatical
  19. My friends are crazy. grammatical
  20. Danielle am mad. ungrammatical