Card could also be used to show that the do carries the tense and person markings with the sample present tense.
1. Put these on the flannel board. .
2. Substitute at the end of the sentence and introduce DO to the front.
3. Show that the of eats gets moved to the initial by moving the from its position after to a position following . Immediately replace with a new card explaining that rewriting do plus third person singular present as does is a convention in English. After several example have been done, it is good to have student volunteers come up and practice forming question by moving and substituting the cards. To give students additional practice, prepare (or have students prepare) pieces of paper with the words, question marks, and morphemes for each student (or pairs of students) to manipulate at his or her desk.