Read the following sentences.

To burn paper or a piece of wood, we heat it before it catches fire. We generally do it with a lighted match. Every fuel has a particular temperature at which it


burns.


The verbs in italics are in the simple present tense. When we use it, we are not thinking only about the present. We use it to say that something happens all the time or


repeatedly, or that something is true in general. Find ten examples of verbs in the simple present tense in the text ‘Fire: Friend and Foe’ and write them down here.


Do not include any passive verbs.


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Students do themselves.


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