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Present Simple Tense: 3rd Person Rules

The document provides rules for forming verbs in the third person singular in English. It states that verbs in the third person singular take an -s ending. It then lists two spelling rules for verbs ending in certain letters: 1) verbs ending in a consonant plus y change the y to i and add -s, and 2) verbs ending in -ss, -sh, -ch, -o, or -x add -es in the third person singular. The document also includes two tasks asking to write verbs in the first and third person singular correctly.

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Present Simple Tense: 3rd Person Rules

The document provides rules for forming verbs in the third person singular in English. It states that verbs in the third person singular take an -s ending. It then lists two spelling rules for verbs ending in certain letters: 1) verbs ending in a consonant plus y change the y to i and add -s, and 2) verbs ending in -ss, -sh, -ch, -o, or -x add -es in the third person singular. The document also includes two tasks asking to write verbs in the first and third person singular correctly.

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Affirmative sentences

Sentence construction Rules of forming the 3rd person singular


I The verbs in the 3rd person singular get s ending. There

You are some spelling rules you have to learn.


play
We 1) Y changes into i in the end of the verbs if there is
They volleyball.
a consonant before it.
He football.
basketball. e.g.: try tries
She
the piano. 2) If the verb ends with ss, -sh, -ch, -o or x, it
plays the drums. gets es ending in 3rd person singular.
It e.g. : wishes, mixes, matches, watches, misses,

goes, does

TASK 1 - Write the correct form of the Task 2 Write the correct forms of the
verbs in the brackets on the lines. verbs in the brackets on the line. You have
to use 3rd person singular.
E.g.: They to school. (to go) go E.g.: She to school. (to go) goes

1) I usually _________ a bike in spring. 1) Tim _________ to Paris every month.

(to ride) (to fly)

2) You _________ dinner at 4 oclock 2) Sandra _________ carefully on the

every day. (to prepare) lessons. (to listen)

3) Mary and I _________ to school at 3) Molly _________ her homework in the

quarter past 7. (to go) afternoons. (do)

4) My parents _________ work at 4 4) Britney often _________ when she

oclock in the afternoon. (to finish) _________ a romantic film. (to cry, to

5) They _________ new dresses for Mary see)

in May. (to buy) 5) She _________ her hair in the

6) You never _________ meat. (to eat) bathroom. (to brush)

7) I always _________ home after school. 6) It _________ a lot in England. (to rain)

(to walk) 7) He never _________ at me. (to laugh)

8) The students _________ English from 8) Mrs Davis _________ after lunch. (to

Mrs Harrison. (to learn) wash up)

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