Practice Present Simple Tense | English Grammar Course

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Let's do a checkup of the present simple tense.
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We'll take a look at the affirmative, negative, and question forms.
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Let's get started.
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Let's start with the first checkup.
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In this checkup, I want you to focus on the ‘be’ verbs.
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Remember ‘be’ verbs, in the present simple tense, can be ‘is’, ‘am’, or ‘are’.
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Take a look at the first sentence.
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It says, ‘She _ blank _ at school.’
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The subject of this sentence is ‘she’.
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What ‘be’ verb do we use for ‘she’?
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The correct answer is ‘is’.
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Now if you were thinking of the negative, the correct answer would be ‘she isn't’
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or ‘she is not’.
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That's correct as well.
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And if we want to use a contraction for ‘she is’, we can say ‘she's at school’
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For the next one, it says, ‘They _ blank _ twenty years old.’
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The subject of this sentence is ‘they’.
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What ‘be’ verb do we use for ‘they’?
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The correct answer is ‘are’.
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For the negative, you can also use ‘aren't’ or ‘are not’.
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Also if you want to use the contraction for ‘they are’, you can say,
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‘They're 20 years old.’
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The next sentence says, ‘His father _ blank_ busy.’
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The subject of this sentence is ‘his father’.
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What subject pronoun do we use for ‘his father’?
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The correct answer is ‘he’.
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Remember for ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘it’, the ‘be’ verb is ‘is’.
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For the negative, we can say ‘isn't’ or ‘is not’.
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And for a contraction, for ‘father’ and ‘is’, we can say, ‘His father's busy.’
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Now I want you to try to find the mistakes in this sentence.
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‘We isn't good friends.’
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Did you find the mistake?
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This is the mistake.
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The subject is ‘we’ and the ‘be’ verb is ‘are’.
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Therefore, the correct answer is ‘we are not’,
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or the contraction, ‘we aren't good friends.’
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The next sentence.
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Can you find the mistake?
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‘Are John a teacher?’
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Think about the subject of this sentence.
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The subject is ‘John’.
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And ‘John’, the subject pronoun is ‘he’.
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Therefore, we don't use ‘are’, we use ‘is’.
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‘Is John a teacher?’
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‘Is John a teacher?’
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And finally, ‘It am a puppy.’
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hmm This one is a big mistake.
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The subject here is ‘it’.
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What ‘be’ verb do we use for ‘it’?
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The correct answer is ‘is’.
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So we don't say, ‘It am a puppy,’ we say, ‘It is a puppy.’
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Great job guys.
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Let's move on to the next checkup.
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For the next checkup, I want you to think of some other verbs in the present simple tense.
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Take a look at the first sentence.
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‘He __ blank __ …’, I want you to think of the verb, ‘like his dinner’.
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What do we do to the verb when the subject is ‘he’, ‘she’, or ‘it’?
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Remember we add an ‘s’.
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‘He likes his dinner.’
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For the negative, you can also say, ‘He doesn't like his dinner.’
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The next sentence says, ‘My students __ blank __…’, I want you to think of ‘need’,
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‘…books’.
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What is the subject pronoun for ‘my students’?
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The correct answer is ‘they’.
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If the subject is ‘I’, ‘you’, ‘we’, or ‘they’, in the present simple tense,
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we don't change the verb, we keep it as is.
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So the correct answer is, ‘My students need books.’
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Now for the negative, you can say, ‘My students don't need books.’
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The next sentence says, ‘I __ blank __…’, think of the verb,
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‘…live in London.’
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What do we do here?
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Again the subject is ‘I’, therefore we don't change the verb.
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The correct answer is, ‘I live in London.’
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What's the negative?
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‘I don't live in London.’
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For the next part, I would like for you to try to find the mistake in the sentence.
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‘He doesn't likes math.’
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What's the error here?
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Well this is a negative.
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‘He doesn't…’, that's correct.
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However, we do not add an ‘s’ when we have ‘doesn't’ in front of ‘it’.
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‘Do he eat candy?’
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Here we have a question.
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The subject of the sentence is ‘he’.
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For ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘it’, when we're making a sentence in the present simple tense,
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we use ‘does’ not ‘do’.
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So the correct answer is, ‘Does he eat candy?’
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And finally, ‘Sam is play computer games.’
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There are two present simple verbs here and we can't have that,
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so the correct way to fix this sentence is to get rid of the ‘is’.
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So take that out and say, ‘Sam plays computer games.’
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Add an ‘s’ because the subject is ‘Sam’ which is a ‘he’.
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Great job!
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Let's move on to the next practice.
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For this next practice, we're taking a look at routines.
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Remember the present simple tense can be used to describe events that happen regularly.
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Let's take a look at the first sentence,
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‘We _ blank _ the bus every day.’
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And I want you to use the verb ‘take’.
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Here we see the clue word ‘every day’ which shows that this is a routine.
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The subject of the sentence is ‘we’.
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In the present simple tense,
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remember if the subject is ‘I’, ‘you’, ‘we’, or ‘they’,
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we do not change the verb.
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Therefore the correct answer is, ‘We take the bus every day.’
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In the second sentence it says, ‘He _ blank _ to school every morning.’
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Again a routine.
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The subject here is ‘he’.
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What do we do if the subject is ‘he’, ‘she’, or ‘it’?
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We add ‘s’ or ‘es’ to the verb.
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In this example, the verb is ‘go’, so we have to add ‘es’.
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‘He goes to school every morning.’
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In the next sentence, it says, ‘Lizzy not play (in parenthesis) tennis.’
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Here I want you to think about the negative form.
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Lizzy is a ‘she’.
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The subject pronoun is ‘she’ so what do we do for the negative?
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We say ‘does not’ or the contraction ‘doesn't play tennis’.
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We do not add an ‘s’ or ‘es’ to the end of the verb.
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Instead we say ‘doesn't’ or ‘does not’.
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Now I want you to find a mistake in the next sentence.
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‘They watches TV at night.’
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Can you figure out what's wrong with the sentence?
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The subject is ‘they’.
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Therefore, remember, we do not change the verb.
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We say ‘watch’.
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‘They watch TV at night’.
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In the next sentence, or question, it says, ‘Does he plays soccer every week?’
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The subject of the sentence is ‘he’.
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To make a sentence, putting ‘does’ at the beginning is okay,
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However, we don't put an ‘s’ at the end of ‘play’.
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Therefore, the correct answer is to simply say,
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‘Does he play soccer every week?’
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And finally, ‘He always forget his book.’
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In this case, the subject is ‘he’.
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Remember, again, for he/she/it we add 's' or 'es' to the end of the verb.
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What's the verb in the sentence?
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It's ‘forget’.
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Therefore we have to say, ‘He always forgets his book.’
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Great job.
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Let's move on to the next practice.
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In this checkup, we'll take a look at how the present simple tense can be used to describe
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future events.
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Take a look at the first sentence.
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It says, ‘The airplane _ blank _ tonight.’
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And we're looking at the verb ‘leave’.
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What is the subject of the sentence?
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The correct answer is ‘airplane’.
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What subject pronoun do we use for ‘airplane’?
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It's ‘it’.
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Remember in the present simple tense, for ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘it’, we add an ‘s’
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or ‘es’ to the verb.
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The verb here is ‘leave’ so we simply add an ‘s’.
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The correct answer is, ‘The airplane leaves tonight.’
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In the second sentence, it says, ‘Does the movie _blank_ soon?’
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And we're using the verb ‘start’.
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What is the subject of this sentence?
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It’s ‘movie’.
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And what subject pronoun do we use for movie?
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It’s ‘it’.
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So it's like saying, ‘Does it _ blank _ soon?’
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Well this is a question, so we already have the correct word in the front - ‘does’.
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For he/she/it, when we're asking a question, we use ‘does’.
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Now all we have to do is use the same verb in its base form,
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so ‘Does the movie start soon?’
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We do not add an ‘s’ or ‘es’ here.
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Finally, it says, ‘Viki _ blank _ tomorrow.’
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The subject of the sentence is ‘Vicki’.
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‘Vicki’ is a girl so the subject pronoun is ‘she’.
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You'll remember now that for… in this case, we put ‘works’.
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w-o-r-k-s ‘works’.
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‘Vicki works tomorrow.’
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Now let's find the mistakes in the sentence below.
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‘He do leave at 3:30 p.m.’
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Actually there's only one mistake.
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Can you find it?
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‘He do leave at 3:30 p.m.’
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We do not need the ‘do’ here.
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We only use ‘do’ in a question or in the negative form.
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But also the subject is ‘he’, so we would use ‘does’.
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Either way we don't need this here.
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Well now we have the verb ‘leave’ with the subject ‘he’.
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Do you know what to do?
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We simply change this to ‘leaves’.
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Just like we did in the first sentence.
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‘He leaves at 3:30 p.m.’
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In the next sentence, ‘They don't start school today.’
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We have a negative sentence.
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‘They don't…’, that's correct.
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‘…do not’ is correct.
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For subject pronoun ‘they’.
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However, in the negative form, we don't have to change the main verb at all.
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Therefore, all we will do is say, ‘They don't start school today.’
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No ‘s’.
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Finally, ‘Does we eat at noon?’
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Take a look.
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What is the subject or subject pronoun in the sentence?
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The correct answer is ‘we’.
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Think about the question form.
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Do we say ‘do’ or ‘does’ in the question form for the subject pronoun ‘we’?
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The correct answer is ‘do’.
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We say ‘do’.
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So the correct way to say this sentence or question is,
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‘Do we eat at noon?’
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Great job guys.
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You're done with the practice.
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Thank you for your hard work.
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Let's move on.
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Good job guys.
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You put in a lot of practice today.
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The present simple tense is not easy, and I'm really happy to see how hard you guys
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worked on mastering it.
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Be sure to check out my other videos and thank you for watching this video.
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I'll see you next time.
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Bye.
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