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
SUBJECT VERB OBJECT TIME

Singular
plays
She does
He eats
It goes

piano every evening

Special play homework every night

singular every day
do fish with
today every
rice
I eat to school Saturday
go the old
folks
Plural
play
You do
They eat
We go

 Universal truth statement Bird

flies Birds fly

Exercise 1 : Write the correct answer.

1. My father (go)
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)
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)
21. The referee usually (stop)
22. The pupils (read)
23. He (spend)
24. Many people (go)
25. The supermarket (close)
to the market to buy groceries every Sunday.
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 litter
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.
up early every morning.
the game after 90 minutes.
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.