Simple Present

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After learning Greetings, Pronouns ( I, You He…) and To be verbs (am, is , are), English learners must practice Simple present

Simple present I think is the first tense which you must learn, because using simple present is very common in English language. Also, Simple present is the basic grammar, by learning it completely, you will pave the way to learn other Tenses

How to make simple present sentences

Subject + Verb

It is very simple to make simple present tense. The only thing which you need is a subject and a verb

?What is subject

Every sentence usually needs a subject

Subjects

• pronouns: I, You, He, She, It, We, You, They
• Nouns: book, dog, place
• Names: Jamshid, Asghar, Shamsi

?What is verb

Every simple present tense has a verb for example

Work, Study, Sleep, Read, Write

He, She, It simple present

Note: for He, She, It we add S or ES to the verbs

Note: if the subject is a name it is like the pronouns. For Example, Ali, Ghazal, Asghar or The dog or the Cat like pronouns

Ali Goes

Ghazal Goes

Asghar Goes

The dog Goes

The cat Goes

How to make negative simple present sentences

Subject + Don’t / Doesn’t + Verb

?How to make Questions with simple present

?Do/Does+ Subject + Verb

Note: when we use Does or doesn’t we must not use S or Es at the end of the verbs
He Doesn’t goes to school everyday
He doesn’t go to school every day

‘Spelling of the words ‘S’, ‘ES’ or ‘IES

verbs ending in ‘SS’, ‘SH’, ‘CH’, ‘X’ and ‘O’ we should add ES to form the third person singular he, she it

‘when before ‘Y’ there is a consonant we change the ‘Y’ into ‘I’ and add ‘es

‘verbs ending in ‘Y’ following a ‘Vowel’ we add just ‘S

I stay

He stays

We obey

She obeys

?When do we use simple present

grammar simple present when to use simple present by Delinglish.com

repeated events: we use adverbs of frequency like always, usually

I always get up early in the morning

Note: also it is habitual action in some grammatical books

He smokes cigarettes

General facts

I live in Tehran

Ice melts at 0 degree

. simple present can be used in newspaper headlines

MASS MURDERER ESCAPES

PEACE TALKS FAIL

dramatic narrative: describing the action of a play, opera. Commentators use simple  present to describe the sports events

state verbs

She has a house

I do not believe in god

I think you are tired

in zero conditional and in first conditional

Zero: if you heat ice, it melts

First: if you give me 100$, I will but a DVD player