To Be...

...at this point someone always says, "...or not to be!" So, I will not disappoint you.

We looked at personal pronouns - basic building blocks for a sentence - and now we need to look at "to be"; the basic verb.

It must have been great for the caveman or woman who first invented "to be". So far they could only say:

I cold...you cold? Weather terrible!

With "to be" they could now say:

I am cold...are you cold? Isn't the weather absolutely terrible!

"To be" is a little irregular, maybe because it is so old.

The positive looks like this:

I	am
you, we, they	are
he, she, it	is

The negative is the same with a "not" stuck on the end:

I am you, we, they are he, she, it is

NOT

To ask a question with "to be" just turn the positive forms around:

Am	I...?
Are	you, we, they...?
Is	he, she, it...?

That's it! Those are all the present forms. The other tenses are coming soon...

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