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Verb "To be" and its Agreement

How to use ?To be? verbs (is , are ,am)

"Is" ? it is a singular verb and comes with singular third person. Like - ( he is a god student),
"Am" - come with first person singular
"Are" - with third person plural

To be verbs comes with compliment / predicate - like.
Subject +verb ?to be? + compliment

He is gentleman.
He is a sportsman .
This house is mine.
The weather is fine.

Sub+ verb to be + infinitive
Sub +is/are/am/was/were/are+ infinitive

She is to come today.
They are to attend the party today.
They were to play match here.
You are to meet me tomorrow.
I am to leave tomorrow.

It+ is/was/ infinitive / adjective / gerund

It is easy to say him clearly.
It is to happen.
It is foolish to waste time like this.
It is god that you told me earlier.

Sub+ verb to be + ing

He is reading.
He is listening music.
They are coming.
They were going.

Passive voice with help of to be verb

She was called.
He was being called.
I was invited.
They were not invited.

Sub+ was / were + Perfect infinitive
This formation is used to make sentence, if some task are happened to be in the past but could not be happened.- Like

She was to have come yesterday but she had to postpone her plan for a month.

To make a question (Interrogative)
to make question we start our sentence with help of ?to be verb? and then subject like

Are you busy ?
Is she coming?
Are they have come?
Am I looking good?
Were they invited?

To make sentence of supposition or impossible

Were + subject compliment/predicate
Were I a princess.
Were I a bird.
Were I there.
Were u are with me.

Make these sentence with help "If"- like
If I were a king.
If I were a princess.
If he were young.
If I were there.

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