THIRD PERSON SINGULAR V. THIRD PERSON PLURAL ( ENGLISH GRAMMER )

THIRD PERSON SINGULAR V. THIRD PERSON PLURAL

He live in Paris.
He lives in Paris.

Unfortunately many ‘non native’ speakers of English continue to omit the ‘s’ when using third

person singular. We only need to remember the‘s’ when using the present simple affirmative.

One of the least tolerable errors in the English language is ‘subject and verb’ disagreement.

Not only is it incorrect but it sounds bad.

Other examples of third person singular and third person plural errors are as follows:
People lives.
People live.

A person lives or people live. We say ‘one person’, but ‘two people’.
Everyone have.
Everyone has.

Everyone = each single person. It does not refer to a group but separate individuals,

therefore falls into the category of ‘third person’ singular.
One of my students have gone to England.
One of my students has gone to England.

This error is due to incorrect verb conjugation. The verb should be conjugated with ‘one of’

and not ‘students’.
Other examples which take on the verb in third person singular are:
No-one/nobody has someone/somebody has anyone/anybody has