MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES

SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE

THE SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE IS USED:

To express habits, general truths, repeated actions or unchanging situations, emotions and wishes:

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 express fixed arrangements, present or future:
Your exam starts at 09.00

Be careful! The simple present is not used to express actions happening now.

EXAMPLES

For habits
He drinks tea at breakfast.
She only eats fish.
They watch television regularly.

For repeated actions or events
We catch the bus every morning.
It rains every afternoon in the hot season.
They drive to Monaco every summer.

For general truths
Water freezes at zero degrees.
The Earth revolves around the Sun.
Her mother is Peruvian.

For instructions or directions
Open the packet and pour the contents into hot water.
You take the No.6 bus to Watney and then the No.10 to Bedford.

For fixed arrangements
His mother arrives tomorrow.
Our holiday starts on the 26th March

FORMING THE SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE: TO THINK
Affirmative                           Interrogative                                   Negative

I think                                     Do I think?                                 I do not think

You think                                Do you think?                          You do not think
He thinks                                Does he think?                         He does not think
She thinks                               Does she think?                      She does not think
It thinks                                  Does it think?                           It does not think
We think                                 Do we think?                             We do not think.
They think                              Do they think?                           They do not think.

NOTES ON THE SIMPLE PRESENT, THIRD PERSON SINGULAR
In the third person singular the verb always ends in -s:
he wants, she needs, he gives, she thinks.

Negative and question forms use DOES (= the third person of the auxiliary 'DO') + the infinitive of the verb.
He wants ice cream. Does he want strawberry? He does not want vanilla.

Verbs ending in -y : the third person changes the -y to -ies:
fly --> flies, cry --> cries
Exception: if there is a vowel before the -y:
play --> plays, pray --> prays

Add -es to verbs ending in:-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.
He tries very hard.
She enjoys playing the piano.

SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE



 

                                                      

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