<p>he lives in a house
he live in a house</p>
<p>why is live plural</p>
<p>You have to conjugate verbs to match the subject.</p>
<p>Since ‘he’ is 3rd person singular, you have to use ‘lives’ since the word is conjugated as: I live, you live, he/she/it lives, we live, they live</p>
<p>???</p>
<p>That is not plural.
That is called subject-verb agreement.</p>
<p>So… It is def. “lives” instead of “live”…</p>
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<p>hah…</p>
<p>fun with verbs. yay.</p>
<p>i can tell your not a native speaker ^_^</p>
<p>omg why cant you help me. Why is it live plural. LIVES should be plural. He lives… ???</p>
<p>here, the word ‘live’ is used as a VERB, as in ‘i was living there…’</p>
<p>and see how verbs, when you are using them for he/she/it you put an ‘s’ at the end? like
I love you
She loves me
He loves her</p>
<p>so the word ‘live’ isn’t plural- it was just conjugated to fit the pronoun ‘he’.</p>
<p>Singular: lives</p>
<p>He lives in a house.
My dog lives in a doghouse.
The fish lives in the pond.</p>
<p>Plural: live</p>
<p>We live in a shack.
The soldiers want something to live for.
Plants live in good soil. </p>
<p>Just something you have to memorize, I suppose.</p>
<p>as a ‘verb’ , he lives would be singular and we live would be plular
as a ‘NOUN’, life would be singular and lives would be plular</p>
<p>i think this is what confuse you</p>
<p>I’m not a native speaker too… I just came here for half a year.</p>
<p>naylin6 said what I wanted to say.</p>
<p>But as a ‘verb’, it is not called plural nor singular. It has to agree to the subject. For one quick example, “I” is not plural but the verb takes “live” since the subject is “I”!!</p>
<p>then whatr about this one</p>
<p>Jane Eyre could not marry Mr. Rochester until the fateful night when Grace Poole SET the mansion ablaze. No error</p>
<p>Why is SEt not SETS?</p>
<p>The action was done in the past, so “to set” takes the past form.</p>
<p>Future: He will set the table tomorrow.
Present: He sets the table every day before supper.
Past: He set the table yesterday.</p>
<p>so only present have s in the end?</p>
<p>^ Yes…
You will add helping verb or change the form of verb otherwise.</p>