English is a language that has several grammar concepts. These concepts help you to understand how tenses and verbs work hand in hand to form meaningful sentences.
You have already learned about the verbs as well as tenses so we bring up some of the interesting grammar guidelines which will have the combination of verbs and tenses to generate sentences. In the English language, we use simple present tense to express the habits and routines, sometimes the general facts and truths, thoughts and feelings.
Note: But in the case of third-person singular, the simple present tense form becomes identical to the base form of the verb. It is defined as the infinitive without making use of the p-word. |
In today’s session with Englishbix, we would understand how to work with the third person singular present verbs. You would also learn how these tenses form different verbs and make them functional.
Third Person Singular Verb Endings with Examples
So you can imbibe the most regular English verbs to simply generate the third person singular present tense form. It will be simply using the suffix -s to the end of the verb that is used in the sentence. Sometimes the suffix -es is also used. You can make use of any of the suffixes which you think would be convenient to add to the base of the verb. Moreover, you will have to ensure that when the verb is singular and in the present tense as a subject.
Rules of Forming Third Person Singular Verbs using Suffixes
Let’s get to see what we can learn from ‘Third_person Singular Verb Ending’.
- You can observe that most of the verbs that are used in English form the third person singular by adding -s to the base form.
For example, sings, gives, requires, etc.
- Most of the verbs will have the ending in the form of –ch. -s, -sh, -x, or -z will take the third-person singular by adding -es.
To understand it lets look at the verbs examples.
Watches, misses, rushes, mixes, buzzes, etc.
- When the verb ends in consonants +y would the third-person singular verb by changing the ‘y’ to ‘i’ and adding -es to the verb.
For instance: tries, cries, fries, etc.
Now, when it comes to some of the irregular verbs, then you can form special third-person singular verbs. If you check the third-person singular form of ‘be’ is ‘is’. If you are using ‘have then the third-person singular of ‘have’ would be ‘has’. Suppose you are trying to use ‘do’ in the sentence then the third-person singular of it would be ‘does’ and for ‘go’ it would be ‘goes’.
- You can have a look at the list of words/ verbs and what forms do they take in the third-person singular.
- to argue – argue – argues
- to clean – clean – cleans
- to fight – fight – fights
- to pickle – pickle – pickles
- to wonder – wonder – wonders
- For verbs that end in an -s, -z, -x, -ch, or -sh, affix the suffix -es to the end of the verb. For example:
- to box – box – boxes
- to catch – catch – catches
- to kiss – kiss – kisses
- to watch – watch – watches
- to wish – wish – wishes
- For verbs spelled with a final y preceded by a consonant, change the y to an ‘i’ and then affix the -es suffix. For example:
- to apply – apply – applies
- to copy – copy – copies
- to identify – identify – identifies
- to reply – reply – replies
- to try – try – tries
Examples of Third Person Endings
Now let’s have a look at the examples of the Third Person Endings so that you can understand it in a better way.
- Having a good experience is one of the best things because a person has to give the test initially and then learn a lesson from it.
- The contemporary theology of dance not only embraces the sacred but also dines, sleeps, laughs, cries, loves, hates and lives with the profanity.
- A Tarzan hunts and searches the whirling globe to unearth the miniature truth which makes him think of the peak of science.