Finish the dramatic text sent by a best friend.
"You ___ the only person in the world who understands my deep, spiritual connection to pizza."
The correct answer is are.
The pronoun "you" always takes the verb form "are" in the present tense, whether it refers to one person or multiple people.
Be
The verb be is the most irregular and most-used verb in English. It has eight forms — be, am, is, are, being, was, were, been — more than any other English verb. It works as both a main verb (linking a subject to a complement: She is a doctor) and an auxiliary (forming the progressive tenses I am working and the passive voice It was written).
Almost every sentence you'll ever speak or write uses some form of be. Master its irregular forms early — am/is/are/was/were/been — and the rest of English grammar gets dramatically easier.
Present tense
The present tense in English has four forms: simple present (I work) for habits, general truths, and stative descriptions; present progressive (I am working) for actions happening right now or temporary situations; present perfect (I have worked) for past actions with present relevance; and present perfect progressive (I have been working) for ongoing actions continuing into the present.
The simple/progressive distinction is one of the trickiest jumps for learners — I work in Paris (habitual) and I'm working in Paris (temporary, right now) feel almost identical but signal different things. Pick wrong and your meaning subtly shifts.
Grammatical person
Grammatical person is the distinction between the speaker (first person: I, we), the addressee (second person: you), and everyone or everything else (third person: he, she, it, they). It governs which pronoun you pick and which verb form you use — the only place modern English still marks person on verbs is the third-person singular present -s (she works, not she work).
Person agreement is the source of one of the most common errors in English: dropping the third-person -s (he go instead of he goes). Once it's automatic, the rule is invisible — but it's a constant tell of unfinished basics.
A1 | Elementary | Beginners
A1 is the starting level of the CEFR framework — the entry point into English. At A1 you can introduce yourself, ask and answer simple personal questions, recognise common signs and instructions, and have short slow-paced conversations on very familiar topics.
Grammatically, A1 covers the building blocks: present-tense forms of be, have, and do; basic word order; simple questions; and the most common determiners, pronouns, and prepositions. Knowing your level matters — A1 material teaches the foundations every later level builds on, while a B1 textbook will overwhelm you. Start here and progress is fast.
Difficulty: Easy
The Easy difficulty tag marks questions and challenges aimed at beginners — typically A1 or early A2 level. Expect single-rule focus, short sentences, common everyday vocabulary, and one clear correct answer. Distractors usually rule themselves out quickly.
Filter by Easy when you're rebuilding fundamentals, warming up before harder material, or testing whether you've truly internalised a basic rule before moving on. Easy doesn't mean trivial — it means the rule itself is unambiguous and the context doesn't pile on extra complications.