Learn English Grammar (lesson2)

 After learning parts of speech, we will start our second lesson, which is about making sentences.

How to make simple sentences???

In the simple present tense or present indefinite tense, we talk about our habitual actions and tell our regular activities.

First of all, we will describe sentence structure.

 A simple sentence contains

 Subject+Verb1st form+Object

What is the Subject in a sentence?

The subject can be a noun, pronoun, thing or place.

The subject represents what kind of action(verb) is happening in the sentence, and then the Object comes.

The Object accepts the action.

Here are the examples to understand.

1. My father appreciates me.

    In the above sentence 

    My father............subject

    appreciate...........verb

    me....................    Object

2. I read the newspaper.

     In the above sentence

     I.................. Subject

     Read............verb

     Newspaper......object

One more thing we use to form the simple present tense is adding   

 "s" or "es" at the end of the verb.

 When we use " s" or "es" at the end of the verb?

 The answer is that when the sentence starts with the third person singular, we add "s" or "es" at the end of the verb.

 Before I tell you about third-person singular, we should know the first and second person(Subject)?

 I          first person singular

 We      first person plural 

 Your second person singular

 He, She, It, any single noun are third-person singular.

 They  third person plural 

 If the sentence starts with first or second person(singular or plural) and third-person plural, we use verbs without adding " s" or "es". 

But when the sentence starts with third-person singular, we add " s" or "es" at the end of the verb.

 Here is the list of third-person singular.

 He, She, It + any noun.

 If the sentence starts with the third person singular, we add " s" or "es" with the verb.

 For examples

 Talk........Talks

 Run.........Runs

 Speak.....Speaks

Some particular verbs end with es when we use them with third person singular.

For example

Pass........Passes

Watch......Watches

Teach......Teaches

Some particular verbs end with "yes" when we use the third person singular.

For example

Study........studies

Fly.............flies

Cry............cries

There is another rule of adding "ies." 

If "y" appears at the end of a verb and there is a consonant before "y", we will remove "y" and add "ies." 

If "y" appears at the end of a verb and there is a vowel before "y", we will add "s" with a verb.

Say........ Says

Stay.......stays

Play.......

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