{"id":204,"date":"2025-08-30T11:50:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T11:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/2025\/08\/30\/the-cat-on-the-mat\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T11:50:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T11:50:56","slug":"the-cat-on-the-mat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/the-cat-on-the-mat\/","title":{"rendered":"The cat&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; on the\u00a0mat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>a)sits<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>b)sitting<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>c)sit<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Answer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Answer: sits<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Explanation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The cat&#8221; is a singular subject, so the verb must be in singular form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Sit&#8221; is the base form (not correct here).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Sitting&#8221; needs a helping verb (is\/was).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Sat&#8221; is past tense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, the correct sentence is: The cat sits&nbsp;on&nbsp;the&nbsp;mat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a)sits b)sitting c)sit Answer Answer: sits Explanation: &#8220;The cat&#8221; is a singular subject, so the verb must be in singular form. &#8220;Sit&#8221; is the base form (not correct here). &#8220;Sitting&#8221; needs a helping verb (is\/was). &#8220;Sat&#8221; is past tense. Therefore, the correct sentence is: The cat sits&nbsp;on&nbsp;the&nbsp;mat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-tips"],"aioseo_notices":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Editor","author_link":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/author\/editor\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/category\/daily-tips\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Daily Tips<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"a)sits b)sitting c)sit Answer Answer: sits Explanation: &#8220;The cat&#8221; is a singular subject, so the verb must be in singular form. &#8220;Sit&#8221; is the base form (not correct here). &#8220;Sitting&#8221; needs a helping verb (is\/was). &#8220;Sat&#8221; is past tense. Therefore, the correct sentence is: The cat sits&nbsp;on&nbsp;the&nbsp;mat.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}