SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE

Action Verb

The simple present tense is used when

• Time is present :
today every day every time every year
every Monday every fortnight every weekend every weekday
always sometimes usually often
seldom daily weekly monthly

• Universal truth statement

Bird flies Birds fly

Subject Verb Object Time

Singular plays
She does
He eats
It goes
piano every evening
Special singular play homework
every night
do fish with rice
every day
I eat to school
today
go the old folks
every Saturday
Plural play
You do
They eat
We go

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Exercise 1 : Write the correct answer.

1. My father (go) to the market to buy groceries every

Sunday.
2. He (paint)
3. The boys (play)
4. She (walk)
5. He (buy)
6. The gardener (water)
7. The girls (walk)
8. He (swim)
9. We (wash)
10. Our teachers (advise)
litter around the school.
11. The man (pluck)
12. The ladies (mop)
13. The children (climb)
14. The fisherman (catch)
15. The shop (open)
16. She usually (sleep)
17. My father (wash)
18. The postman (deliver)
19. Halim and Hakim (jog)
20. Maria (wake) ___________ up early every morning.
21. The referee usually (stop) ___________the game after 90 minutes.
22. The pupils (read)
23. He (spend)
24. Many people (go)
25. The supermarket (close)
the living room every year.
football at the nearby park every evening.
to the restaurant every afternoon.
the food at the roadside stall every night.
the plants every day.
to school every morning.
at the pool every weekend.
the dishes once a day.
us every day, not to
the mangoes at the orchard twice a year.
the floor every morning.
the rambutan tree every evening.
the fish every day.
at 9.00am every morning.
in the afternoon.
his car once a week.
letters every day.
at the park every evening.
the story books in the library every week.
RM3 a day on food at the canteen.
to that restaurant as the food is good.
at 10.00 every night.

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