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(1) things that are true now, e.g. My name is Susie. I am twelve years old.
(2) how often we do things, e.g. Susie and Betty go shopping every Saturday morning. They usually buy a lot of things.
(3) Things that are always true, e.g. Birds have two wings. They fly very high.
We form positive and negative statements in the simple present tense with the verb ‘to be’ (is/am/are)like this.
Exercise 1
Fill in these sentences using the correct form of the verb ‘to be’ and the words in the brackets. Then write the words in
the blanks.
With other verbs, we usually form positive and negative statements in the simple present tense like this
Subject Subject
I/We/You/You/They He/She/It
I eat ice-cream. He eats ice-cream.
You eat ice-cream. She eats ice-cream.
Positive (+) We eat ice-cream. It eats ice-cream.
They eat ice-cream.
Exercise 2
Say these sentences using the correct form of the verbs in brackets. Then write the words in
the blanks.
With most verbs, we add –s to the verb when it is used with the third person singular. With other verbs, we change the
verb in different ways:
With the verb ‘to be’, we use ‘Am’/‘Are’/‘Is’ to ask a question in the simple present tense. The
answer is always ‘Yes’ or ‘No’.
Exercise 1
Say these questions and answers using the correct form of the verb ‘to be’. Then write the
words in the blanks.
1. ___________ he early? Yes, he is.
We can also use ‘Do’/‘Does’ to ask a question in the simple present tense with other verbs.
The answers is always ‘Yes’ or ‘No’.
Exercise 2
Say these questions and answers using the correct form of the verb ‘to do’. Then write the
words in the blanks.
Parts of Speech
In grammar, a part of speech (also called lexical categories, grammatical categories or word classes) is a
linguistic category of words. In English there are eight parts of speech.
1. Verb
2. Noun
A noun is a word used to refer to people, animals, objects, substances, states, events, ideas and feelings. A
noun functions as a subject or object of a verb and can be modified by an adjective.
3. Adjective
4. Adverb
5. Pronoun
6. Preposition
Prepositions are used before nouns to form a phrase that shows where, when, how and why
in, above, to, for, at ...
7. Conjunction
8. Interjection
Parts of speech
Subject
Verb
Predicate
Direct and indirect objects
Sentence
Adverbs describe verbs (actions). They give more detail about the action.
Adverbs that do this are: very, extremely, really, totally, absolutely, quite, fairly, well. These are normally placed
before the adjective.
Types of Adverbs
There are many types of adverbs, such as:
Adverbs of Time - tomorrow, now, this year, next week, soon, then
He speaks clearly.
When there is an object, the adverb is usually placed after the verb + object:
However, adverbs are never positioned between the verb and the object.
There are exceptions these rules such as Adverbs of indefinite frequency that go before the verb. See each section
we have about adverbs for more details and exceptions.
Next activities
To see the spelling rules for adverbs, check out: Adverbs Spelling -LY
To see more information about adverbs of frequency, check out: Adverbs of Frequency
Check out our grammar notes about Compound Adjectives which sometimes contain both adjectives and adverbs.
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