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
If your first weeks of English felt like a battle with am, is, are — you've already met the most common verb in the language. Every form of be is irregular, and you can't avoid them: they're in introductions, descriptions, questions, the present continuous, the past, and the passive voice. Get them automatic and the rest of English grammar gets noticeably less stressful.
The verb be has eight forms — be, am, is, are, being, was, were, been — more than any other English verb. Functions as a copula linking subject to complement (She is a doctor) and as an auxiliary for progressive tenses and the passive voice.
Present tense
If you've ever told someone I am living here for ten years (should be have lived or have been living) — you've hit the present perfect's main puzzle. English insists that "started in the past, still true now" lives in the present perfect, not the simple present. Internalise that one rule and a whole class of common errors disappears.
The present tense in English has four forms: simple present (I work) for habits and general truths; present progressive (I am working) for now or temporary; present perfect (I have worked) for past with present relevance; present perfect progressive (I have been working) for ongoing duration up to now.
Grammatical person
If you've ever written she go or he have and not been sure why a teacher corrected it — you've hit grammatical person. English barely marks person on verbs anymore, but it kept just enough to catch you out: third-person singular present forms always end in -s (she works, he tries). Miss this one rule and almost every sentence about another person sounds wrong.
Grammatical person distinguishes the first person (speaker: I, we), second person (addressee: you), and third person (everyone else: he, she, it, they). The only place modern English marks it on verbs is the third-person singular present -s (she works).
A1 | Elementary | Beginners
If you can say your name, ask Where is the toilet?, and read a simple bus sign — but freeze when someone speaks at normal speed — you're at A1. That's not a problem to fix; it's the level where most learners actually live for a while, and recognising it lets you pick the right material instead of drowning in advanced grammar that wasn't meant for you yet.
A1 is the starting level of the CEFR framework, covering basic everyday communication: greetings, introductions, simple personal questions, present-tense forms of be/have/do, and core determiners and prepositions.
Difficulty: Easy
If a textbook leaves you confused, sometimes the issue isn't the topic — it's that the practice material is layered with extra complications. Filtering by Easy strips that away. You get one rule at a time, in plain everyday language, with no trick questions. It's how you make a shaky foundation solid before stacking more on top.
The Easy difficulty tag marks beginner-level questions and challenges — typically A1 or early A2. Single-rule focus, short sentences, common vocabulary, one clear correct answer.