♬Ol’ Man River, he
don’t say nothing…
I’m terribly sorry to interrupt, but that should be “He doesn't say anything.”
Statement of form
Sbj + present tense
verb (the base form, unless the subject is ‘he, ‘she’ or ‘it’, in which case
add -s or –es, depending on the spelling of the base form).
For ‘be’, it’s ‘am’, ‘is’ or ‘are’.
Students need to know
We use it talk
about what we see as general truths.
So that includes:
routines and habits
“I wake up every morning, stumble out of
bed…”
common knowledge
“Klingons rule this quadrant.”