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    The document provides information about the present simple and past simple tenses in English. For the present simple tense, it describes its uses for facts, routines, and future events from a calendar. It explains the verb forms for questions, affirmatives, and negatives in the present simple. For the past simple tense, it similarly describes its use for completed past events and gives examples. It also outlines the verb forms for questions, affirmatives, and negatives in the past simple tense.

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    PRESENT SIMPLE

    WHAT?

    Where do you live? I live in Masnou. I don’t live in Badalona.


    What does he play? He plays the drums. He doesn’t play the guitar.
    How do they travel? They travel by train. They don’t travel by plane.

    WHEN?
    Present Simple describes (a) facts (fets) and routines, permanent things in the present, (b) future when you
    speak about the calendar (e.g. Easter starts on Saturday the 8th of April)

    HOW?
    In questions, the auxiliary do (does for 3rd person singular, and do for all the others) + verb in infinitive
    In affirmatives, only the verb in present simple (with final s in 3rd person singular, and like the infinitive
    for all the others)
    In negatives, the auxiliary do in negative (doesn’t for 3rd person singular, and don’t for all the others) +
    verb in infinitive

    PAST SIMPLE
    WHAT?

    Where did you live? I lived in Masnou. I didn’t live in Badalona.


    What did he play? He played the drums. He didn’t play the guitar.
    How did they travel? They traveled by train. They didn’t travel by plane.

    WHEN?
    Past Simple describes finished past things; maybe these things finished two years ago or only two minutes
    ago. Maybe these things continued for a long time in the past. For example: Yesterday, I went to Marta’s
    house and we talked until two o’clock in the morning.

    HOW?
    In questions, the auxiliary did (in all cases) + verb in infinitive
    In affirmatives, only the verb in past simple (with NO final s in 3rd person singular)
    In negatives, the auxiliary did in negative (didn’t) (in all cases)

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