ENGLISH BEYOND ABILITY(EBA) BOOK OF 6TH GRADES 6th grades book | Page 10
by Özgen Şahin Bektaş / Kastamonu Bilim ve Sanat Merkezi
-is used when we talk about habits:
The spelling of third person singular:
I get up at 6 every morning.
- to express a fact: -add –s to the base form of the verb
The sun rises in the east. (wants,eats,reads,writes,helps..)
- to talk about time tables. -add –es when the verb end in
The train arrives at 9 a.m
-adverbs of frequency: always,
ss,sh,ch,x,o..
(kisses, goes,fixes,watches,washes)
-end in a consonant+y change to –ies
usually, often, sometimes,never… (carry-carries, fly-flies)
-every day/year/month/ BUT: vowel+y are normal:
morning/night…
buy-buys, say-says
Affirmative and negative form
Question form:
Do I get up so early?
I go do not go (don’t)
You do don’t do
Yes, I do. /No, I don’t.
He drives does not drive(doesn’t Does she cook every evening,
She cooks doesn’t cook Yes, she does. /No, she doesn’t.
It eats doesn’t eat We help don’t help Do they go on holiday?
You kiss don’t kiss Yes, they do./ No, they don’t.
They walk don’t walk