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

 

I	Go
You	Go
We	Go
You	Go
They	Go

 

 

He, She, It simple present

 

He	Goes
She	Goes
It	Goes

 

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

 

I go to school every day	We go to school every day
You go to school every day	You go to school every day
He goes to school every day	They go to school every day
She goes to school every day
It goes to school every day

 

 

How to make negative simple present sentences

 

Subject + Don’t / Doesn’t + Verb

 

I don’t go to school every day	We don’t go to school every day
You don’t go to school every day	You don’t go to school every day
He doesn’t go to school every day	They don’t go to school every day
She doesn’t go to school every day
It doesn’t go to school every day

?How to make Questions with simple present

 

?Do/Does+ Subject + Verb

 

?Do I go to school every day	?Do we go to school every day
?Do you go to school every day	?Do you go to school every day
?Does he go to school every day	?Do they go to school every day
?Does she go to school every day
?Does it go to school every day

 

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

I rush

He rushes

She rushes

It rushes

We rush

They rush

I watch

He watches

She watches

It watches

We watch

They watch

 

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

Carry	Copy	Try
I carry	They copy	We try
She carries	He copies	She tries

 

‘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

 

Existence	Be, exist
Mental states	Believe, doubt, know, realize, recognize, suppose, think, understand
Wants and likes	Want, like, love, hate, need, prefer
Possession	Belong, have/has, possess, own
Senses	Feel, smell, taste
appearance	Appear, look, seem

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