GRADE 8 English REHABILITATION – READING:SHORT STORY Notes
READING: SHORT STORY — REHABILITATION (English grammar notes for age 13)
These notes focus only on grammar you will meet when reading a short story about rehabilitation (for example, a person returning to health or a community helping someone change). Each point has a short explanation and clear examples.
- Simple past — used for main events: "He entered the rehabilitation centre." (done and finished)
- Past continuous — background actions: "He was sleeping when the nurse arrived."
- Past perfect — action before another past event: "He had finished the exercises before dinner."
Direct speech uses quotation marks. Reported speech (telling what someone said) often changes tense and pronouns.
Use passive when the action or the person receiving the action is important: focus on result, not who did it.
Adjectives describe nouns; adverbs describe verbs, adjectives or other adverbs.
Use who/which/that to add information about people or things.
Short stories use connectors to show time, cause, or contrast.
Make sure pronouns match the noun in number and gender, and the verb agrees with its subject.
- Start new paragraph for each speaker.
- Use comma before the quotation if the sentence continues: She said, "We will start soon."
- Question marks and exclamation marks stay inside the quotes if part of speech.
"Yes," he replied, "I am ready."
Stories use verbs, nouns and adjectives from one root: rehabilitate → rehabilitation (noun), rehabilitated (adjective).
- Find the tense: "She had visited the clinic before joining the programme."
- Change to reported speech: He said, "I feel better today."
- Turn passive: The volunteers trained the youth.
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2) He said that he felt better that day.
3) The youth were trained by the volunteers.