SIMPLE

PRESENT
TENSE
SIMPLE PRESENT
TENSE
• Is used to describe daily routines.
• You have to conjugate the verbs
depending on the subject.
• In the next slides you will see the
structure for different statements and
questions.

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 AFFIRMATIVE STATEMENT
Subject Verb complement

I, You, They, We clean The mirror on Monday.

She, He, it cleans the mirror on Monday.

Remember with third person subject you have to add s or es to the verb.

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 NEGATIVE STATEMENT
Subject Auxiliary do or Verb complement
does + not
I, You, They, We Do not (don´t) clean The mirror on
Monday.

She, He, it Does not (doesn´t) clean the mirror on

Monday.

Remember as we are using auxiliary verbs, the main verb goes in base form.

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 QUESTIONS
Auxiliary do or subject Verb complement
does
Do I, you, they, we Wash The dishes?

does She, he, it Wash The dishes?

Remember as we are using auxiliary verbs, the main verb goes in base form.
To make questions you have write first the auxiliary (depending on the subject) and
then the subject.

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