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- With most other verbs, we make positive and negative sentences as below:
Subject | Verb | |
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I/ You/ We/ They | look | healthy. |
He/ She/ It | looks | healthy. |
Subject | do not/ does not | Base verb | |
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I/ You/ We/ They | do not (don’t) | feel | well. |
He/ She/ It | does not (doesn’t) |
- We usually add -s to the verb after he, she and it (third person singular):
Most verbs | +s | take → takes work → works |
Verbs ending in –s, -ch, -sh, -x and -z | +es | dress → dresses catch → catches |
Verbs ending in vowel (-ay, -ey, -oy, -uy) +y | +s | say → says play → plays |
Verbs ending in consonant +y | -y +ies | carry → carries cry → cries |
Verbs ending in -o | +es | do → does go → goes |