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Present simple Verb to be PDF exercise 1
- Complete short dialogues with positive, negative and questions forms:
A: How often are you ill, grandma?
B: Quite often. I ___ very healthy this year.
Present simple Verb to be PDF exercise 2
- Complete questions with the forms of the verb to be:
A: Where ___ Mark and Kevin? They're so late today.
B: I have no idea, to tell the truth.
Present simple Questions PDF exercise 3
- Complete the conversation with do/does questions:
Ann: (your brother - like?) ___ English?
Sue: English is his favourite subject.
Present simple Questions PDF exercise 4
- Find mistakes and correct them:
Does your parents live in a house?
Do your brother and sister eats meat?
Present simple Wh- questions PDF exercise 5
- Liz is taking her exam. Complete the conversation with wh- questions:
Examiner: All right, Liz. Where ___ ?
Liz: I live near here. Just round the corner.
Present simple Wh- questions PDF exercise 6
- Put jumbled words in the correct order.
Who ___ ? (you-stay-with)
Who do you stay with?
Present simple Negative PDF exercise 7
- Complete a general knowledge quiz.
Tourists go to Africa to see the Niagara Falls. (America)
Tourists don't go to Africa to see the Niagara Falls. They go to America.
Present simple Negative PDF exercise 8
- What a good student doesn't do.
He/she ___ copy other students' homework.
Good students ___ talk to their neighbours during lessons.
Present simple Third person PDF exercise 9
- Complete the story about Sam's kitten.
Every day little Samuel ___ up early in the morning. (get)
He ___ downstairs and into the backyard. (hurry)
Present simple Third person PDF exercise 10
- My dear family. Complete sentences with the verbs from the list.
(love, take, cry, practise)
My sister Frances ___ guitar lessons and ___ every day.
My aunt Fiona ___ watching romantic stories and she sometimes ___ .
Present simple Mixed forms PDF exercise 11
- Complete short dialogues with verbs in brackets.
What ___ in your free time? (do)
I ___ anything. I just lie in bed get bored.
Online exercises with answers:
Verb to be - all forms 1 Complete positive, negative and question forms.
Verb to be - questions 2 Make questions in short dialogues.
Present simple exercise 3 (questions) My brother Mark. Complete the conversation.
Present simple exercise 4 (wh questions) Use why, what, where, who, how to complete questions.
Present simple exercise 5 (negative) Practise negative forms.
Positive vs. negative forms 6 (knowledge quiz) Correct the wrong information in the quiz.
Present simple exercise 7 (third person - Sam's Kitten) Why does little Sam get up so early? Complete the story.
Third person singular 8 (My Dear Family) Complete sentences with the verbs in the list.
Present simple exercise 9 (mixed forms) A multiple choice test.
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Present simple tense
We mostly use the base form of the verb to make the present simple affirmative.
I work in San Francisco. You eat too much chocolate. We get up early. They live in an old house.
In the third person singular (he, she, it) we add -s to the base form.
Peter plays tennis. My sister tries to change her job. Our son goes to primary school.
We use do or does to make questions in the present simple.
Do you know Greg? Does he go to the same school?
Negative questions normally express a surprise.
Does he not work? Doesn't he work?
If the wh- pronoun introducing the question (who, which) is the subject of the question, we do not use the auxiliary verb do.
Who knows you? Which cars belong to you?
The negative forms are made with do not (don't) or does not (doesn't).
I do not (don't) know. Marion does not (doesn't) want to study.
The verb to be has completely different forms:
I am, you are, he/she/it is, we are, they are.
We add not after the verb to be to make negatives.
I am not, you are not, it is not.
Questions are made in a simple way. We just change the word order of a statement.
Am I? Are you? Is he?
In spoken English, however, we normally use short forms.
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