Question

Fill in the blank with the correct form of the word:
The postman ________________ (deliver – correct form of verb) the post by 11 a.m. every day.

Answer 1

Hint: We have to use the correct form of the verb here. The sentence in the above question is in the present tense and the subject is in the third person.

Complete answer:
A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence which forms the main part of the predicate, in a sentence is known as a verb, almost every sentence requires a verb. The basic form of a verb is known as its infinitive. The forms call, love, break, and go are all infinitives.
 Now, in the case of the above-given sentence, we have to use a proper form of the verb and complete the sentence.
As per the above-given sentence, we can see that the subject of the sentence is in the third person and the whole sentence is in the present tense. When the subject is in the third person the letter “s” is usually added to the end.
Now, we add the letter‘s’ to the verb if the subject is in the third-person singular form, we do not add a‘s’ if the subject is in plural form.
So, as the subject of the sentence is in the third person we will add a‘s’ at the end of the root verb word. Therefore, the correct form of the verb, in this case, is – delivers.
Now, this makes the correct/ complete sentence as – ‘The postman delivers the post by 11 a.m. every day’.

Note:
 We add the letter‘s’ to the verb if the subject is in the third-person singular form, we do not add an‘s’ if the subject is in plural form.