All English 4U · Intermediate Grammar · Unit 2 · B1–B2
Present Simple
Repair, Reuse, Repeat: A Community Workshop
100% Original Practice Test · 44 questions · habits, stable facts, schedules, negatives and questions.
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Quick Grammar Guide
Choose the present simple when describing a routine, a stable fact or an agreed timetable. At this community workshop, volunteers explain what usually happens and what the service accepts. Check the subject before choosing the verb form.
1. How to Form It
Use the present simple for habits, facts, timetables and states. The main verb stays in its base form with I/you/we/they; he/she/it adds the appropriate ending.
Positive statements
Structure: I/you/we/they + base verb; he/she/it + verb-s or -es
Positive: We inspect donated tools. Leena inspects donated tools.
Meaning: Most verbs add -s; wash and mix add -es. Carry becomes carries, but enjoy becomes enjoys. Common irregular forms include have → has, do → does and go → goes.
Negative statements
Structure: I/you/we/they + do not/don't + base verb; he/she/it + does not/doesn't + base verb
Negative: We do not charge for an assessment. The workshop does not repair gas appliances.
Meaning: Do/does carries the tense and agreement, so the main verb stays in its base form after the auxiliary.
Questions and short answers
Structure: Do/Does + subject + base verb?
Question: Do you volunteer on Saturdays? Does Leena lead the briefing? Yes, she does. No, she does not.
Meaning: Use does with he/she/it and do with I/you/we/they. The main verb has no -s after does.
2. Clue Words & Patterns
Look for meaning, not a single automatic trigger: the present simple commonly describes repeated routines, stable information and scheduled events.
Leena usually checks the exits before the doors open.
Usually identifies a repeated duty. A frequency adverb normally goes before an ordinary main verb, but after be: Leena is usually early.
Volunteers collect bicycles on the last Saturday of each month.
This is a repeated service, so the plural volunteers takes collect.
The next repair session starts at ten tomorrow.
The present simple can express an agreed timetable event in the future. It does not mean that every future plan requires this tense.
These batteries fit the portable radio. The workshop accepts clean fabric.
The first sentence describes compatibility; the second states a current policy. Neither describes an action happening only at this moment.
3. Watch Out & Common Mistakes
Check which word carries agreement. In negatives and questions, do or does carries it; in positive statements, the main verb does.
Agreement in a positive statement
Wrong: The volunteer inspect every plug.
Better: The volunteer inspects every plug.
A singular third-person subject needs the appropriate -s form.
Base form after does
Wrong: Does Leena repairs radios?
Better: Does Leena repair radios?
Does carries agreement; use the base verb repair after it.
Plural negative
Wrong: The helpers does not open the storeroom.
Better: The helpers do not open the storeroom.
Plural helpers takes do not. Keep open in the base form.
An ordinary verb and be
Wrong: The workshop is opens at ten.
Better: The workshop opens at ten.
Do not add is before the ordinary present-simple verb opens. A different construction, The workshop is open, uses open as an adjective.
Spelling after y
Wrong: Our driver carrys the boxes.
Better: Our driver carries the boxes.
Consonant + y changes to -ies. After a vowel, retain y: enjoys, not enjoies.
Complete: Each repair session ___ (finish) at two.
finishes. Each repair session is singular; finish ends in sh and takes -es.
Correct only the auxiliary: Do Omar check the booking list?
Does Omar check the booking list? Omar is singular. Check stays in the base form after does.
Which is correct: The helpers do not charge / do not charges for advice?
The helpers do not charge for advice. Do not is followed by the base verb charge.
Before answering: identify the subject and the routine or fact. Check the third-person ending in positive statements, and the base verb after do or does.
Part 1 — Form the third-person singular
Write the he/she/it form of each base verb. This part checks spelling only.
Base verb: inspect
1. inspect →
Base verb: carry
2. carry →
Base verb: wash
3. wash →
Base verb: study
4. study →
Base verb: enjoy
5. enjoy →
Base verb: mix
6. mix →
Base verb: have
7. have →
Base verb: do
8. do →
Part 2 — Complete the workshop handbook
Use the present simple of the cue. Supply the whole missing verb phrase; include the subject when it appears inside a question cue.
Describe the workshop’s usual arrangements.
Cue: (open)
9. The community workshop at ten every Saturday.
Describe the workshop’s usual arrangements.
Cue: (not / charge)
10. The volunteers for an initial assessment.
Describe the workshop’s usual arrangements.
Cue: (check)
11. Before each session, Leena the emergency exits.
Describe the workshop’s usual arrangements.
Cue: (not / accept)
12. The workshop gas appliances under its safety policy.
Describe the workshop’s usual arrangements.
Cue: (you / keep)
13. Where the spare sewing needles?
Describe the workshop’s usual arrangements.
Cue: (have)
14. Each workbench a numbered tray for loose screws.
Describe the workshop’s usual arrangements.
Cue: (not / replace)
15. We parts without the owner’s permission.
Describe the workshop’s usual arrangements.
Cue: (Omar / teach)
16. How often the bicycle-maintenance class?
Describe the workshop’s usual arrangements.
Cue: (say)
17. The notice on the door that visitors need a booking.
Describe the workshop’s usual arrangements.
Cue: (not / need)
18. Regular visitors to bring their own tools.
Part 3 — Choose the correct present-simple form
Choose the form that agrees with the subject and fits the regular routine, fact or question.
Choose the standard present-simple form.
Choose the standard present-simple form.
Choose the standard present-simple form.
Choose the standard present-simple form.
Choose the standard present-simple form.
Choose the standard present-simple form.
Choose the standard present-simple form.
Choose the standard present-simple form.
Part 4 — Build the sentence or question
Use every token exactly once. Follow the starting words and word-placement cue. Select a word in your sentence to return it to the bank.
Start with The coordinator; put carefully at the end.
27. Build the sentence.
Word bank: The / checks / each / coordinator / carefully. / lamp
Start with Where do you; put the spare buttons at the end.
28. Build the sentence.
Word bank: store / buttons? / spare / the / you / Where / do
Start with Our driver; put large appliances at the end.
29. Build the sentence.
Word bank: driver / collect / does / not / Our / large / appliances.
Start with The workshop; put at four before on Saturdays.
30. Build the sentence.
Word bank: Saturdays. / on / The / at / closes / workshop / four
Start with Do these batteries; put the portable radio at the end.
31. Build the sentence.
Word bank: these / fit / portable / batteries / radio? / the / Do
Start with Leena usually; put after lunch at the end.
32. Build the sentence.
Word bank: after / lunch. / clocks / Leena / usually / repairs
Part 5 — Correct the marked phrase
Replace only the underlined word or words. Keep all the unmarked words unchanged.
Change only the marked phrase.
33. The coordinator check the booking list every morning.
Replace check with
Change only the marked phrase.
34. Do Leena label every donated cable?
Replace Do with
Change only the marked phrase.
35. Our helpers doesn’t work with gas appliances.
Replace doesn’t with
Change only the marked phrase.
36. Omar doesn’t fixes phones at the workshop.
Replace fixes with
Change only the marked phrase.
37. The tool library carry replacement screws.
Replace carry with
Change only the marked phrase.
38. Where does the volunteers keep the first-aid kit?
Replace does with
Part 6 — Listen and complete
Play each recording and type the single missing word exactly as spoken. Capital letters do not affect your score.
A volunteer states the weekly timetable.
39. Listen and complete.
The workshop at ten on Saturdays.
A team member explains a regular policy.
40. Listen and complete.
We never customer keys overnight.
A visitor asks about the collection service.
41. Listen and complete.
the driver collect wooden chairs as well?
A volunteer reads the current notice.
42. Listen and complete.
The notice that visitors need a booking.
A colleague describes the driver’s usual routine.
43. Listen and complete.
Our driver the tools in labelled boxes.
A repairer describes a stable compatibility fact.
44. Listen and complete.
These batteries the portable radio.
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