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EmSAT Grammar Study Guide 2017/2018
Table of Contents
The following table is a list of the 16 grammar categories and sub categories that G12 students need to know to be
ready for the EmSAT. The column on the right gives the page numbers in this booklet that review each objective.
Categories & Sub-categories Sample Items Pages in this Booklet
a) subject / verb (e.g. He
are is Emirati. My uncle
My cousin ______ playing football.
he is Emirati. I am
a) enjoy
1 Agreement
Emirati.)
b) enjoying
Pages 8-10
b) noun / ‘number word’
c) enjoys
(e.g. Several new
d) is enjoy
students are from
Salalah.)
a / the / an; this / that /
We need to use ______ books, not
the ones over there.
2 Articles and these / those (+ one / ones);
a) this
determiners other / another / others;
Pages 11-14
b) that
possessive adjectives (e.g.
c) these
my, her, his)
d) them
a) many/much/more/
most/few/fewer/
fewest/little/less/least
Can I have a ______ minutes to speak
b)
with you?
c) some / any
3 Quantifiers
a) less
d) both...and... / neither...
Pages 15-19
b) few
nor / either...or
c) little
e) every / each / all / none
d) several
f) too much/many/few/
little
not enough
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EmSAT Grammar Study Guide 2017/2018
Table of Contents
The following table is a list of the 16 grammar categories and sub categories that G12 students need to know to be
ready for the EmSAT. The column on the right gives the page numbers in this booklet that review each objective.
Categories & Sub-categories Sample Items Pages in this Booklet
a) subject / verb (e.g. He
are is Emirati. My uncle
My cousin ______ playing football.
he is Emirati. I am
a) enjoy
1 Agreement
Emirati.)
b) enjoying
Pages 8-10
b) noun / ‘number word’
c) enjoys
(e.g. Several new
d) is enjoy
students are from
Salalah.)
a / the / an; this / that /
We need to use ______ books, not
the ones over there.
2 Articles and these / those (+ one / ones);
a) this
determiners other / another / others;
Pages 11-14
b) that
possessive adjectives (e.g.
c) these
my, her, his)
d) them
a) many/much/more/
most/few/fewer/
fewest/little/less/least
Can I have a ______ minutes to speak
b)
with you?
c) some / any
3 Quantifiers
a) less
d) both...and... / neither...
Pages 15-19
b) few
nor / either...or
c) little
e) every / each / all / none
d) several
f) too much/many/few/
little
not enough
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EmSAT Grammar Study Guide 2017/2018
Categories & Sub-categories Sample Items Pages in this Booklet
I usually have lots of energy but I
am _________ tired right now.
a) even
b) much
very, quite, awfully, really, c) not so
4 Intensifiers
pretty, too, fairly, more, d) really
rather, most, still, even,
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much, somewhat, not so, It is ______ common for Emirati
and ever so students to study at university.
a) only
b) ever
c) fairly
d) anything
a) personal pronouns
(subject/object e.g.
they/them; I/me)
Ali and his brother are driving to Al
b) possessive pronouns
Ain tomorrow, so you can ride
(e.g. mine, yours, hers,
5 Pronouns 1
its) with _________ if you like.
c) reflexive pronouns (e.g. a) it Pages 21-23
myself, herself) b) they
d) indefinite pronoun (e.g. c) you
someone, everyone,
d) them
everything)
e) existential pronouns
(e.g. There is, There are)
a) person (that, who, Did you read about the woman
6 Pronouns 2 whom, whose) __________ has 30 children?
(Relative b) thing (that, which, a) who
Pages 24-26
pronouns)
whose) b) what
c) place (where) and time c) whom
(when) d) whose
d) relative clauses
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EmSAT Grammar Study Guide 2017/2018
Table of Contents
The following table is a list of the 16 grammar categories and sub categories that G12 students need to know to be
ready for the EmSAT. The column on the right gives the page numbers in this booklet that review each objective.
Categories & Sub-categories Sample Items Pages in this Booklet
a) subject / verb (e.g. He
are is Emirati. My uncle
My cousin ______ playing football.
he is Emirati. I am
a) enjoy
1 Agreement
Emirati.)
b) enjoying
Pages 8-10
b) noun / ‘number word’
c) enjoys
(e.g. Several new
d) is enjoy
students are from
Salalah.)
a / the / an; this / that /
We need to use ______ books, not
the ones over there.
2 Articles and these / those (+ one / ones);
a) this
determiners other / another / others;
Pages 11-14
b) that
possessive adjectives (e.g.
c) these
my, her, his)
d) them
a) many/much/more/
most/few/fewer/
fewest/little/less/least
Can I have a ______ minutes to speak
b)
with you?
c) some / any
3 Quantifiers
a) less
d) both...and... / neither...
Pages 15-19
b) few
nor / either...or
c) little
e) every / each / all / none
d) several
f) too much/many/few/
little
not enough
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EmSAT Grammar Study Guide 2017/2018
Categories & Sub-categories Sample Items Pages in this Booklet
I usually have lots of energy but I
am _________ tired right now.
a) even
b) much
very, quite, awfully, really, c) not so
4 Intensifiers
pretty, too, fairly, more, d) really
rather, most, still, even,
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much, somewhat, not so, It is ______ common for Emirati
and ever so students to study at university.
a) only
b) ever
c) fairly
d) anything
a) personal pronouns
(subject/object e.g.
they/them; I/me)
Ali and his brother are driving to Al
b) possessive pronouns
Ain tomorrow, so you can ride
(e.g. mine, yours, hers,
5 Pronouns 1
its) with _________ if you like.
c) reflexive pronouns (e.g. a) it Pages 21-23
myself, herself) b) they
d) indefinite pronoun (e.g. c) you
someone, everyone,
d) them
everything)
e) existential pronouns
(e.g. There is, There are)
a) person (that, who, Did you read about the woman
6 Pronouns 2 whom, whose) __________ has 30 children?
(Relative b) thing (that, which, a) who
Pages 24-26
pronouns)
whose) b) what
c) place (where) and time c) whom
(when) d) whose
d) relative clauses
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EmSAT Grammar Study Guide 2017/2018
Categories & Sub-categories Sample Items Pages in this Booklet
a) place, time, motion,
agent / instrument
b) verb + preposition + There is no food in the house. I need
object (e.g. succeed in) to go ______ the supermarket.
7 Prepositions
c) noun + preposition a) from
Pages 27-31
(e.g., rise in, problem
b) to
with) c) between
d) adjective + preposition d) of
(+ ing) (e.g. proud of,
interested in)
a) present simple /
continuous Susan is ____________ the bus to
b) past simple / work.
continuous a) take
c) present perfect simple b) taken
d) past perfect simple
c) takes
8 Verb forms 1 e) present perfect
d) taking
(tense / aspect
continuous
Pages 32-36
/ voice) f) ‘futures’ (will / going to
I _______ on my homework when
/ present continuous)
she called.
g) passive voice simple
a) am worked
tenses only (e.g., The
car was destroyed in b) was worked
the crash.) c) am working
h) imperatives d) was working
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EmSAT Grammar Study Guide 2017/2018
Table of Contents
The following table is a list of the 16 grammar categories and sub categories that G12 students need to know to be
ready for the EmSAT. The column on the right gives the page numbers in this booklet that review each objective.
Categories & Sub-categories Sample Items Pages in this Booklet
a) subject / verb (e.g. He
are is Emirati. My uncle
My cousin ______ playing football.
he is Emirati. I am
a) enjoy
1 Agreement
Emirati.)
b) enjoying
Pages 8-10
b) noun / ‘number word’
c) enjoys
(e.g. Several new
d) is enjoy
students are from
Salalah.)
a / the / an; this / that /
We need to use ______ books, not
the ones over there.
2 Articles and these / those (+ one / ones);
a) this
determiners other / another / others;
Pages 11-14
b) that
possessive adjectives (e.g.
c) these
my, her, his)
d) them
a) many/much/more/
most/few/fewer/
fewest/little/less/least
Can I have a ______ minutes to speak
b)
with you?
c) some / any
3 Quantifiers
a) less
d) both...and... / neither...
Pages 15-19
b) few
nor / either...or
c) little
e) every / each / all / none
d) several
f) too much/many/few/
little
not enough
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EmSAT Grammar Study Guide 2017/2018
Categories & Sub-categories Sample Items Pages in this Booklet
I usually have lots of energy but I
am _________ tired right now.
a) even
b) much
very, quite, awfully, really, c) not so
4 Intensifiers
pretty, too, fairly, more, d) really
rather, most, still, even,
Page 20
much, somewhat, not so, It is ______ common for Emirati
and ever so students to study at university.
a) only
b) ever
c) fairly
d) anything
a) personal pronouns
(subject/object e.g.
they/them; I/me)
Ali and his brother are driving to Al
b) possessive pronouns
Ain tomorrow, so you can ride
(e.g. mine, yours, hers,
5 Pronouns 1
its) with _________ if you like.
c) reflexive pronouns (e.g. a) it Pages 21-23
myself, herself) b) they
d) indefinite pronoun (e.g. c) you
someone, everyone,
d) them
everything)
e) existential pronouns
(e.g. There is, There are)
a) person (that, who, Did you read about the woman
6 Pronouns 2 whom, whose) __________ has 30 children?
(Relative b) thing (that, which, a) who
Pages 24-26
pronouns)
whose) b) what
c) place (where) and time c) whom
(when) d) whose
d) relative clauses
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EmSAT Grammar Study Guide 2017/2018
Categories & Sub-categories Sample Items Pages in this Booklet
a) place, time, motion,
agent / instrument
b) verb + preposition + There is no food in the house. I need
object (e.g. succeed in) to go ______ the supermarket.
7 Prepositions
c) noun + preposition a) from
Pages 27-31
(e.g., rise in, problem
b) to
with) c) between
d) adjective + preposition d) of
(+ ing) (e.g. proud of,
interested in)
a) present simple /
continuous Susan is ____________ the bus to
b) past simple / work.
continuous a) take
c) present perfect simple b) taken
d) past perfect simple
c) takes
8 Verb forms 1 e) present perfect
d) taking
(tense / aspect
continuous
Pages 32-36
/ voice) f) ‘futures’ (will / going to
I _______ on my homework when
/ present continuous)
she called.
g) passive voice simple
a) am worked
tenses only (e.g., The
car was destroyed in b) was worked
the crash.) c) am working
h) imperatives d) was working
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EmSAT Grammar Study Guide 2017/2018
Categories & Sub-categories Sample Items Pages in this Booklet
a) verb + infinitive (e.g.
want to)
b) adjective + infinitive
(e.g. afraid to do)
c) gerund as subject (e.g.
Swimming is… )
d) gerund as object (e.g., I
like swimming.)
Fatima loves ________ books on
9 Verb forms 2 e) gerund as object of
the weekend.
(infinitives /
preposition (e.g., The
Pages 37-38
a) read
gerunds, etc)
mayor thanked him for
b) reads
giving the speech.).
f) phrasal verb + gerund c) to read
g) adjective + preposition d) will read
+ gerund (e.g.
interested in buying,
good at driving)
h) causative have/make
(e.g. He’s had his hair
cut.)
___________ are you going to the
a) question words (who,
ball game?
a) Who
10 Questions
which, what, how etc.)
Pages 39-41
b) How
b) auxiliary word choice
c) When
d) Which
a) ability (can, could, be
able to)
b) obligation / absence of
obligation (must,
mustn’t, have to, I didn’t speak English two years ago,
needn’t, ought) but now I ______ speak very well.
11 Modals c) possibility / probability a) could
Pages 42-48
(may / might / could)
b) ought
d) prediction / speculation c) can
(will) d) mustn’t
e) permission (can, may,
could)
f) advice (should)
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