The Simple Present Tense - cont.


Welcome to the ESL HELP! Desk, where all activities and exercises are authentic English, from learners of English. In today's lesson on simple present tense, we have an editing activity.  Use this as a pre-test or, if you have studied this unit, as a self-assessment activity.

To study the prior lesson, click here, on "How do we form the simple present tense? Positive Action Verbs"

Unit Review: Power Edit


Power Edit #1    The following sentences each contain at least one error in subject-verb agreement.  The verbs are positive and negative, actions verbs and be verbs. 

1.  All problems has a solution.

2.  A person must try to avoid using credit cards when he don't have money in the bank.

3.  It is true that "failure is the mother of success".  Everyone have to fail in order to gain experience and become strong.

4.  Whenever I go out on a date, I make sure that my date walk me home by a certain hour so that my parents doesn't have to worry about me.


Click here for the answers to this editing exercise.


Next.... Subject-Verb Agreement and Prepositional Phrases

We continue this unit with our next lesson, Subject-Verb Agreement and Prepositional Phrases.

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