in present simple tense, if the subject is 3rd person singular number then s/es is added with verb. but when is 's' added with verb and 'es' added with verb?

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Shaukat Ali Fahmi

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verb that ends with y ...then change y into i then add es ...eq cry become cries
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so it depends on kind of verb & its ends letter,,,,
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Depends on verb it is added to s or es
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The answer lies in que itself .for example:-I play ,you play but she plays which is 3rd person.
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Add - s to the base form. This is the most common spelling for the -S form and is the spelling used for most verbs. Notice, especially, that - s is added when the base form ends in one or more consonants + e: aches, bakes, breathes, cares, caches, dives, types, writes Notice that - s is also...
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Add - s to the base form. This is the most common spelling for the -S form and is the spelling used for most verbs. Notice, especially, that - s is added when the base form ends in one or more consonants + e: aches, bakes, breathes, cares, caches, dives, types, writes Notice that - s is also added when the base form ends in one or more consonants (but without e): adds, bets, beats, calls, claps, cheats, cleans, digs, drops, eats, fills, finds, fits, gets, grabs, hops, kills, knits, links, lists, means, needs, opens, puts, quits, robs, rings, rips, sends, stops, tells, trusts, voids, wants, works, zips In addition, notice this spelling is used with the small number of verbs ending in two vowels (including - ie): agrees, argues, boos, coos, flees, glues, moos, sees, shoos, shoes, tees, woos dies, lies, ties, vies read less
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Change y to i and add - es. This happens when a verb ends in a consonant + y: apply / applies; bury / buries; carry / carries; copy / copies; cry / cries; dry / dries; fly / flies; fry / fries; hurry / hurries; marry / marries; pity / pities; ply / plies; pry / pries; tidy / tidies; try /...
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Change y to i and add - es. This happens when a verb ends in a consonant + y: apply / applies; bury / buries; carry / carries; copy / copies; cry / cries; dry / dries; fly / flies; fry / fries; hurry / hurries; marry / marries; pity / pities; ply / plies; pry / pries; tidy / tidies; try / tries; worry / worries. Verbs that end in a vowel + y do not change the y to i and then add - es, however: buy / buys; employs / employs; enjoy / enjoys; flay / flays; lay / lays; pay / pays; play / plays; say / says; slay / slays; spray / sprays; stay / stays; sway / sways; Important: Compare flay / flays, play / plays, and pray / prays with fly / flies, ply / plies, and pry / pries to see how these spelling rules work for verbs ending in s. read less
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If last alphabet is a voiwel than use ES otherwise S
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S/es is only Added with a verb when subject is singular and third person pronoun...but there is an exception that I is singular but we can't add s/es with verb..
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S or es depends on few simple rules of English Grammar. like. . Baby- Babies. lady -ladies. normally y changes into plural as ies. monkey-monkeys. is an exception.but exception proves the rule. mango-mangoes. box-boxes.bus-buses. glass-glasses.pls. study the list.
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