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Student: Karla Basic 1.5

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Simple Present

The simple present expresses an action in the present taking place once, never or several times.

S t u dThe simple present is used: ent: Karl a 1. 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)

2. to give instructions or directions: You walk for two hundred metres, then you turn left.

3. to express fixed arrangements, present or future: Your exam starts at 0 .00

4. to express future time, after some conjunctions: after, when, before, as soon as, until: !e"ll gi#e it to you when you come next $aturday.

Examples:

1. For habits He drinks tea at breakfast. She only eats fish. They watch television regularly. 2. For repeated actions or events e catch the bus every morning. !t rains every afternoon in the hot season. They drive to "onaco every summer. Stud e n3. t : For general truths K a r l ater freezes at #ero degrees. a The $arth revolves around the Sun.
Her mother is %eruvian.

4. For instructions or directions Open the packet and pour the contents into hot water. &ou take the 'o.( bus to atney and then the 'o.)* to +edford. 5. For fixed arrangements His mother arrives tomorrow. ,ur holiday starts on the -(th "arch 6. With future constructions She.ll see you before she leaves. e.ll give it to her when she arrives.

Note:

1. he, she, it: in the third person singular the verb always ends in -s: he wants, she needs, he gi#es, she thinks. 2. 'egative and /uestion forms use 0,$S 12the third person of the auxiliary.0,.3 % the infinitive of the verb. !e wants. oes he want& !e does not want. 3. 4erbs ending in -y : the third person changes the -y to -ies: fly flies, cry cries S t u dException: if there is a vowel before the 5y: e n t : 'lay 'lays, 'ray 'rays Karl a 4. 6dd -es to verbs ending in:-ss, -x, -sh, -ch: he 'asses, she catches, he fixes, it 'ushes

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.

Affirmative I think You think we think you think

Interrogative Do I think ? Do you think? Do we think? Do you think?

Negative I do not think. You don't think. He, she, it doesn't think. We don't think. You don't think.

he, she, it thinks Does he, she, it think?