PPRESENTRESENT S SIMPLEIMPLE T TENSEENSE

RULESWE USE THE PRESENT SIMPLE TENSE WHEN THE ACTION IS:

- repeated (habitual) or happens all the time (permanent)- always true (facts)- scheduled (timetables)+ opinions, instructions, commentaries…

FORMS+ AFFIRMATIVE - NEGATIVE ? INTERROGATIVE

I

GO

  I

DON'T GO

 

DO

I

GO

You   You   youWe to work. We to work. we to work?The

y dancing. They dancing. the

y dancing?He

GOES

for a walk. HeDOESN'T

GO

for a walk.DOES

he for a walk?She   She   sheIt   It   it

WH- QUESTIONS

DO

I

GO

youWHERE we to work?

- they dancing?

HOW OFTENDOES

he for a walk?sheit

SHORT ANSWERS

YES,

I

DO.

YES,he

DOES. NO,

I

DON'T.NO,

heDOESN'T.you sh

e you she

we it we itthey

they

NOTE: verbs in the 3rd person singular get an –(e)s ending

KEY WORDS ADVERBS OF FREQUENCYnever rarely not often sometimes often usually every day alwaysNOTE: adverbs of frequency usually go before verbs, after auxiliary verbs, and after the verb ‘to be’

STATE (NON-PROGRESSIVE) VERBS(dis)agree, appear, be, believe, belong, consist, contain, depend, enjoy, feel, hate, have, hear, imagine, know, (dis)like, look, love, matter, mean, mind, need, owe, own, please, prefer, promise, realize, recognise, remember, see, seem, smell, sound, suppose, taste, think, understand, want, weigh, wish…NOTE: some verbs can be both state and action verbs (but some of them can have different meanings)