Grammar check for a 7-year-old: "Who dribbles a ball across the field and scores a goal?"

Simple, child-friendly grammar check and correction for a 7-year-old. Explains why the question is correct, suggests a natural tweak ('the ball'), and gives present and past tense examples.

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Good question! Let's check the sentence: Who dribbles a ball across the field and scores a goal?

  1. Is it correct? — Yes. The sentence is a correct question in the present tense. It asks which person does two things: dribbles and scores.
  2. Why the verbs end with -s: — When we ask about one person with who, the verbs are for one person (third person), so we use dribbles and scores. That is correct.
  3. A small suggestion to sound more natural: — Use the ball instead of a ball if you mean a particular ball. So: Who dribbles the ball across the field and scores a goal?
  4. If you mean something that already happened: — Use past tense: Who dribbled the ball across the field and scored a goal?
  5. Punctuation: — You used a question mark, which is correct for a question.

Short summary for a 7-year-old: Your sentence is right. You can say it exactly as you wrote it, or say "Who dribbles the ball..." to sound a little more natural, or change to "dribbled" and "scored" if it already happened.

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