MEETING 1 "SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE"

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In this post I will discuss about one of the basic tense that you should know. What is that? Yes, simple present tense.

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The simple present tense is one of several forms of present tense in English. This tense is used to describe habits, unchanging situations, general truths, and fixed schedules. Simple present tense is very easy to form. Just use the basic words of the verb: (I take, you take, we take, they take). The third-person singular uses the -s at the end of the base words. (he takes, she takes).

SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE USED:

• To show habits, general truths, repeated actions or unchanging situations, emotions, and expectations: I smoke (habit); I work in London (unchanging situation); London is a large city (general truth)
• To give instructions or directions: You walk for two hundred meters, then you turn left.
• To state a fixed schedule in the present and future: Your exam starts at 9:00.
• To declare a future time after conjunction: after, when, before, as soon as, until: He'll give it to you when you come next Saturday.

Be Careful! Simple Present is not used to state actions or events that are happening right now.

EXAMPLES:

• For habits: He drinks tea at breakfast.
• For repeat actions or incidents: We take the bus every morning.
• For general truth: Water freezes zero degrees.
• For instructions or directions: Open the package and pour the contents into hot water.
• For fixed schedule: His mother arrives tomorrow.
• Together with future tense patterns: He will see you before he leaves.

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NOTES ABOUT SIMPLE PRESENT, THIRD SINGLE PERSON:

• For third-person singles, the verb always ends with -s: he wants, she needs, he gives, she thinks.
• Negative forms and questions using DOES (= auxiliary form 'DO' for third people) + infinitive of verbs. He wants ice cream. Does he want strawberry? He does not want vanilla.
• Verbs that end with -y: Third-person forms change -y to -ies: fly -> flies, cry -> cries Exception: If there are vowels before -y: play -> plays, pray -> prays
• Add -es to verbs that end with: -ss, -x, -sh, -ch: he passes, she catches, he fixes, it pushes

EXAMPLES:

• He goes to school every morning.
• She understands English.
• It mixes the sand and the water.

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