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How to use the word seem
I know that in the following phrase I must add the letter s to the verb seem when used with third person singular like this:
It seems to me...
But then I see such phrases as
make it seem...
and I'm entirely baffled why the word seem is used…
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Which one is the correct phrase?
What's the correct way of saying the following phrase:
How fast this beast go?
or
How fast this beast goes?
The thing here is that I know the object that we are talking about is "beast" and therefore the verb should be goes (third person) but it…
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What's "my master, he say"?
"Instead, he smiled ingratiatingly and confided: 'My master, he say: invite the young lady to go riding.'"
This is a quotation from Angela Carter's The Tiger's Bride.
Reading this book, I could not understand why "say" does not have a third person…
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"He welcome or welcomes you all"
For third person we use "s"at the end the word
for example : I sing. You sing. He sings.
same way : 1st person :I welcome you all . 3rd person : He welcome you all or should it be He welcomes you all
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Can 'one' be used as a gender neutral third person pronoun to refer to God?
If one doesn't wish to refer to God as 'he' or 'she', can one use the gender neutral pronoun 'one' to refer to God in third person --- for example:
"God should do whatever one wants".
"Since it is God rather than humankind who is the Creator of…
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The word "examples" with third person singular verb?
Listen to a few examples which uses this letter.
I found this sentence while I was reading, I wondered why the third person singular verb was used here and thought it was a wrong spelling.
Then I googled "examples which..." and I found some more…
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I Eats My Spinach
"I Eats My Spinach" is an old Popeye the sailor episode (1933). Shouldn't it be "I Eat My Spinach" instead? How come there's the 3rd person singular "s" there?
Reference: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024152/
And here the episode itself:…
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Difficulties in finding of "s third person singular" in more complex sentence
I know the question I'm asking is so specific that you may be reluctant to answer, but I have no other place to find my answer.
I have a sentence, on the Sciencealert site, in which the writer did not use, as my guess, "s" for the verb in the second…
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Use of Has/ Have for third person singular
I am learning Chinese and here is the English translation on Duolingo. As far as I understand.
"has" is right in both cases but Duolingo thinks otherwise.
Is there any other grammar point that I never read or here is a problem in Duolingo?
Why…
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