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In 2023, the Colombian artist Alejandro Gaitán sold a single painting for more than $400,000 at an auction in Miami. Gaitán says he paints what Bogotá sounds like. His work asks a question that a growing audience around the world is beginning to answer.

Grammar Reference · -s / do-does / Articles

Third-person -s

Add -s to the verb when the subject is he, she, or it. She paints. He works. It matters.

do vs does — questions

Use does with he/she/it; use do with I/you/we/they. Does she exhibit abroad? Do they sell prints?

a / an / the

Use a/an for first mention or non-specific. Use the for known, unique, or second mention. She found a gallery. The gallery was small.

Common error

She don't exhibit often. ✗ → She doesn't exhibit often. ✓ — he/she/it always use doesn't

01Exercise 1 — Form · Write the Correct Form

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1.The artist (not) sell prints — she only exhibits originals.

2.Every year, Frieze a Latin American spotlight section.

3. Gaitán show his work outside Colombia regularly?

4.She won award at the Venice Biennale.

5.They (not) treat Latin American art as a regional curiosity anymore.

6. Reina Sofía museum is in Madrid.

02Exercise 2 — Find and Correct the Error

find the error · rewrite the sentence

1.She don't speak at the opening — her work speak for itself.

2.A Frieze art fair now include a Latin American section.

3.He paint an huge canvas every month and sell it through a gallery in Miami.

4.Do she exhibit in Europe? Yes, she exhibit in Madrid every year.

5.It was an political statement, but the message does not shouts — it whispers.

6.An exhibition of this scale rarely travel outside Americas.

03Exercise 3 — About You

in your notebook

Personalise: complete five sentences about yourself using the target grammar.

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