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GRAMMAR

Present Simple
English Tenses

Subject + verb + complement


Auxiliaries: do/does or don't/doesn't

Permanent
situations
For example:

s in New York.
He live

They work at a bank.

Routines
For example:

Sam wake s up at 6 a.m.


She go es to school at 8 o'clock.

Facts
For example:

Water boil s at 100 ºC.


Sun rise s from the East.

Schedules
For example:

s at 1 o'clock.
Math's lesson start

A bus to London leaves every hour.

Spelling
An important spelling rule when it comes to 3rd person, is

that we add an 's' at the end of the verb on its basic form

but, sometimes we must add more than just an 's'.

We'll study this cases:

We add 'es' for verbs ending: We add 'ies' for verbs ending:
-ch watch-watches -consonant + y
-ss  miss-misses dry-dries
-sh wash-washes study-studies
-x fix-fixes

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