Introduction
This research output is based on the finding of the study on the use of cooperative learning activities in enhancing the students’ grammatical competence. It was found out that there was a significant difference between the pre-test and post-test mean scores of the students after an intervention was conducted. Thus, cooperative learning activities were considered effective tools to improve the students’ competency in grammar (Lumabao, 2013).
Based on STI Headquarters’ existing syllabus in ComArts 1 (Communication Arts 1 Courseware), some lessons in grammar were identified and cooperative learning activities were designed to be incorporated or used in the teaching – learning process to make learning more meaningful and effective.
Among the topics identified were as follow: Tenses of Verbs, Subject-Verb Agreement, Prepositions, Adjectives, Sentence Patterns and Transition Words. These topics were distributed in the different periods of the whole First Semester of the school year (Lumabao, 2013).
Tense refers to the verb attribute showing the time of action, condition, or state of being in relation to the time of speaking or writing. Verbs have forms of tense indicating the present, past, of future time.
Whenever one writes a series of sentences, one should make clear the relationship between each idea and the ideas before and after it, often by using transitions.
