Subscribe to my channel
This English grammar lesson will help you remember to add the letter –s to the end of a verb when using the third person singular.
Watch the video then do the revision exercises. If you need more help then read the text below before trying the exercises.
When a number is an adjective there is no -s.
‘A 1,500-metre-high walkway.’
‘A four-man walking team.’
‘A five-minute queue.’
(We add hyphens to multiple word adjectives that go before the noun)
‘A five-minute queue. (Queue is the noun, . . .)
‘A five-minute queue.’
(. . . five-minute is the multiple word adjective that describes it)
‘A one-man photography team.’
‘It is a 25-window walkway.’
(When the adjective comes after the noun . . .
‘The walkway has 25 windows.’
. . . we use an -s if it is more than one, but no hyphens)
Remember: When a number is an adjective no -s.
Now do the revision exercises.
-
Numbers as words or digits?
Write the numbers 0 – 10 as words. (2:00)At night and in the night
At night is used when we talk about every night. In the night talks about a specific night. (2:00)Vocabulary Video Lesson: Censorship
This lesson will help you define censorship, black out, blur out, grawlix, illicit, restriction, suppression, expletive and bowdlerize. (8:00)