Present simple tense (third person singular)

Third person singular - exercise 4

Why does little Sam get up early?

Complete the story with the verbs in brackets. Use the third person forms of the present simple tense.

(get)
Samuel ___ up early in the morning.

(hurry)
He ___ downstairs and into the backyard.

(get)
Every day little Samuel up early in the morning.

(hurry)
He downstairs and into the backyard.

(play)
Where is she? Over there. His black kitten always in the grass.

(chase)
Sam her around the backyard.

(grab)
He her under her soft belly.

(lift)
He her into the air.

(kiss)
He her on her pink nose.

(carry)
And he her into the kitchen to give her some milk.

(watch)
But sometimes he just his kitten running on the grass.

(miss)
What a fast cat she is! She never a mosquito flying low above the ground.

(play)
But she can also be quite cruel when she with a mouse.

(throw)
She the mouse up in the air and lets her fall down. Again and again.

(love)
Sam his cute kitten very much. But he doesn't like her cruel games.

Present simple exercises and grammar rules with examples.

Third person singular

With the present simple we use -s ending (say - says, travel - travels)) and -es ending (do - does, go - goes) in the third person singular.

Peter says that he wants to be a journalist.
My father goes to work fifty kilometres every day.

In questions we use does in the third person singular + the bare infinitive (= play, not plays).

Does Peter want to be a journalist?

Spelling rules:

We add -es to the verb that ends in ss, sh, ch, x and o.
choose - chooses, kiss - kisses, mix - mixes, go - goes

My husband always chooses black pieces when he plays chess.
Little Sarah kisses her puppy a hundred times a day.

If the verb ends in a consonant and -y we change -y into -i and add -es.
marry - marries, try - tries

Our teacher tries to explain English grammar in every lesson but we do not understand it.

But we do not change -y into -i in words such as say - says, lay - lays, because they end in a vowel and -y.

Our dad cooks and mum lays the table before dinner.