[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":367},["ShallowReactive",2],{"exercise-grammar-verb-to-be-exercises":3,"exercise-index-for-related":237},{"slug":4,"skill":5,"topic":6,"title":7,"levels":8,"tags":10,"published":13,"updated_at":14,"is_premium":15,"meta_title":16,"meta_description":17,"rule":18,"examples":40,"exercises":59,"faq":213,"article":229},"verb-to-be-exercises","grammar","verb-to-be","Verb To Be (Am\u002FIs\u002FAre) Exercises",[9],"A1",[6,11,12],"to-be","basics",true,"2026-08-03",false,"Verb To Be (Am\u002FIs\u002FAre) Exercises — Free Practice Online | FluencyRoad","Practice the verb to be (am, is, are) with free interactive exercises: multiple choice, gap-fill and more, instant feedback and explanations of every answer.",{"heading":19,"summary":20,"points":21},"The verb to be: am, is, are","The verb 'to be' changes form to match its subject — am, is or are — and builds its own negatives and questions without any helper verb.",[22,25,28,31,34,37],{"label":23,"text":24},"Affirmative forms","Use am with I, is with he\u002Fshe\u002Fit and other singular subjects, and are with you\u002Fwe\u002Fthey and plural subjects.",{"label":26,"text":27},"Contractions","In speech and informal writing, am\u002Fis\u002Fare usually shrink into the subject: I'm, you're, he's, she's, it's, we're, they're.",{"label":29,"text":30},"Negative forms","Add not right after the verb: is not\u002Fisn't, are not\u002Faren't — but am not has no standard contraction, so I'm not is the only option.",{"label":32,"text":33},"Questions by inversion","Move the verb to the front of the sentence instead of adding do or does: Am I late? Is she home? Are they coming?",{"label":35,"text":36},"Short answers","Answer with subject plus the verb only, and don't contract the positive form: Yes, I am. No, he isn't.",{"label":38,"text":39},"No auxiliary needed","Unlike action verbs, to be never uses do\u002Fdoes\u002Fdid to form negatives or questions — that's what sets it apart from a verb like work or live.",[41,44,47,50,53,56],{"sentence":42,"note":43},"I**'m** the new hire, actually — this is my first week.","Contraction of am with the subject I.",{"sentence":45,"note":46},"He**'s** not the one who booked the hotel, I am.","'s here is a contraction of is, and 'not' makes it negative.",{"sentence":48,"note":49},"They **aren't** answering the phone, so let's just email them.","aren't = are not, the negative form for plural subjects.",{"sentence":51,"note":52},"**Is** this seat taken, or can I sit here?","Question form: is moves in front of the subject 'this seat'.",{"sentence":54,"note":55},"We**'re** not from here — we just moved last month.","we're + not for the negative; note that were\u002Fweren't would be past tense, not used here.",{"sentence":57,"note":58},"**Are** you free to talk now? — Yes, I am.","Question with are, answered with a short answer; 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the accepted form is I'm not.",{"id":206,"prompt":207,"answer":15,"explanation":208},"tf4","In questions with the verb to be, the subject comes before the verb, just like in statements.","Questions invert the order: the verb comes first, as in 'Is she home?'",{"id":210,"prompt":211,"answer":13,"explanation":212},"tf5","'They're' is short for 'they are'.","They're is the standard contraction of they are.",[214,217,220,223,226],{"question":215,"answer":216},"What's the difference between am, is and are?","They're all forms of the verb to be, just matched to different subjects: am goes with I, is goes with he\u002Fshe\u002Fit and other singular subjects, and are goes with you\u002Fwe\u002Fthey and plural subjects.",{"question":218,"answer":219},"How do I make questions with the verb to be?","Move the verb in front of the subject instead of adding do or does — Is he ready? Are they home? Am I late? The word order does the job that do\u002Fdoes does for other verbs.",{"question":221,"answer":222},"Is there a contraction for 'am not'?","Not in standard written English — I'm not is the accepted form. You might hear 'ain't' in casual speech, but it isn't something to use in writing or formal contexts.",{"question":224,"answer":225},"Do I need do or does with the verb to be?","No. To be builds its own negatives and questions, so you never add do\u002Fdoes the way you would with a verb like work or live — that's one of the biggest differences between the two.",{"question":227,"answer":228},"How is this different from the simple present exercises page?","Simple present exercises cover action verbs like work, live and study, which need do\u002Fdoes for negatives and questions. This page covers only the verb to be, which follows its own separate pattern.",{"heading":230,"paragraphs":231},"The One Verb That Skips the Usual Rules",[232,233,234,235,236],"Most English verbs follow the same routine for negatives and questions: you bring in do or does, and the main verb barely changes. 'She works' becomes 'She doesn't work' and 'Does she work?' The verb to be refuses that routine entirely. It handles its own negatives and its own questions, with no helper verb standing in front of it.","That independence starts with how to be changes shape depending on who or what it's attached to. I am, you are, he is, she is, it is, we are, they are — three different words doing the job that other verbs do with just one. Get the subject right and the form of be almost picks itself: singular people and things pull is, I pulls am, and everything else — you, we, they, and any plural — pulls are.","Negatives are just as direct: put not right after the verb. She's not ready. They aren't home. He isn't answering. The one gap in the pattern is am — there's no standard short form for am not, so I'm not carries the whole job on its own, in speech and in writing.","Questions work by swapping the usual order. Instead of dropping in do or does, the verb itself moves to the front: Is she ready? Are they home? Am I too early? Short answers follow the same subject-plus-verb pattern, and they skip the contraction: Yes, I am, not 'Yes, I'm.'","None of this overlaps with verbs like work, live or study, which is why this page stays separate from simple present exercises — that page deals with do and does; this one deals with a verb that never needed them. 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