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Can anybody help? Why does the form change with personal prononus, when we talk about he/she /it.
For example:
I drive
you drive
He/she/it drives
I've looked in Swan's Usage but can't find it.

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Can anybody help? Why does the form change with personal prononus, when we talk about he/she /it.
For example:
I drive
you drive
He/she/it drives
I've looked in Swan's Usage but can't find it.

Bob

Presumably what you are asking is why the verb changes?
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Presumably what you are asking is why the verb changes?
Yes. Why is it I/you/we/they go and
he/she /it goes?

The same occurs when we use "do".

I/you/we/they do it but he she and it does it.
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"The traffic causes conjestion".- It causes conjestion.
Does the traffic cause conjestion?

The verb changes and we drop the "s" in causes, when we form the question.

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