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Simple Present Tense

1. The document explains the simple present tense in English, including its basic structure of subject + auxiliary verb + main verb and three key exceptions. 2. Examples are provided to demonstrate how to form positive, negative, and interrogative sentences using common verbs like "like" and the verb "to be". 3. The simple present tense is used to describe habitual or repeated actions that can occur in the past, present or future, as well as general truths and states that are always true.

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Simple Present Tense

1. The document explains the simple present tense in English, including its basic structure of subject + auxiliary verb + main verb and three key exceptions. 2. Examples are provided to demonstrate how to form positive, negative, and interrogative sentences using common verbs like "like" and the verb "to be". 3. The simple present tense is used to describe habitual or repeated actions that can occur in the past, present or future, as well as general truths and states that are always true.

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Simple Present Tense

I sing

How do we make the Simple Present Tense?


subject + auxiliary verb + main verb
do base

There are three important exceptions:

1. For positive sentences, we do not normally use the auxiliary.


2. For the 3rd person singular (he, she, it), we add s to the main verb or es to the
auxiliary.
3. For the verb to be, we do not use an auxiliary, even for questions and negatives.

Look at these examples with the main verb like:

subject auxiliary verb main verb

I, you, we, they like coffee.


+
He, she, it likes coffee.

I, you, we, they do not like coffee.


-
He, she, it does not like coffee.

Do I, you, we, they like coffee?


?
Does he, she, it like coffee?

Look at these examples with the main verb be. Notice that there is no auxiliary:

subject main verb

I am French.

+ You, we, they are French.

He, she, it is French.

- I am not old.
You, we, they are not old.

He, she, it is not old.

Am I late?

? Are you, we, they late?

Is he, she, it late?

How do we use the Simple Present Tense?


We use the simple present tense when:

• the action is general


• the action happens all the time, or habitually, in the past, present and future
• the action is not only happening now
• the statement is always true

John drives a taxi.

past present future

It is John's job to drive a taxi. He does it every day. Past, present and future.

Look at these examples:

• I live in New York.


• The Moon goes round the Earth.
• John drives a taxi.
• He does not drive a bus.
• We meet every Thursday.
• We do not work at night.
• Do you play football?

Note that with the verb to be, we can also use the simple present tense for situations that
are not general. We can use the simple present tense to talk about now. Look at these
examples of the verb "to be" in the simple present tense - some of them are general,
some of them are now:

Am I right?
Tara is not at home.
You are happy.

past present future

The situation is now.

I am not fat.
Why are you so beautiful?
Ram is tall.

past present future

The situation is general. Past, present and future.

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