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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.



Answer -

1. This is what we call fire.
2. Oxygen comes from the air.
3. We use it to cook our food, warm our homes in winter and to generate electricity.
4. It is sometimes said that fire is a good servant but a bad master.
5. There are three main ways in which fire can be put out.
6. The third way of putting out a fire is to remove heat.
7. The blanket of water also cuts off the supply of oxygen, and the fire is extinguished.
8. We spend millions of rupees each year in fighting fire.
9. When we blow on a burning match stick, we remove the hot air around the flame.
10. Thus the candle goes out.

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