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Chinese tense anchor: third-person present
This is her current job. Which sentence sounds natural?
Classification
reviewed-seedapprovedcore-grammar-controlverb-pattern-correctionsentence-correctionA2Grammar
Provenance
Kind: human-authored
Source: source-lane-anchor-pack
Batch: source-anchor-zh-ar-001
Reviewer: content-lead
Updated: 2026-05-20
Instruction and answer
Instruction
Choose the natural sentence.
Correct answer
She works in finance.
Explanation
English present simple marks third-person singular: she works, he works, it works.
Product use
Surfaces
testdaily
Source languages
zh
Difficulty
low
Conversion hook
The kind of small mistake people instantly recognize in themselves.
Review payload
Review notes
Second ZH anchor for visible verb morphology.
Media prompt
No media prompt attached.
Assets
translated-phrase-distractors
Source traps
zh-tense-aspect
Tags
zh-tense-aspectpresent-simplethird-person-s
Usage
Tests: grammar-diagnostic, tenses, business-english
Funnels: none
Challenges: zh-third-person-s
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"type": "single-choice",
"correctOptionId": "works",
"options": [
{
"id": "works",
"label": "She works in finance.",
"rationale": "He/she/it needs -s in present simple."
},
{
"id": "work",
"label": "She work in finance.",
"rationale": "The third-person -s is missing."
},
{
"id": "working",
"label": "She working in finance.",
"rationale": "This misses the auxiliary is."
},
{
"id": "is-work",
"label": "She is work in finance.",
"rationale": "Do not use be before the base verb here."
}
]
}