SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE

VERBAL SENTENCE
 THE USE OF SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE

• Simple present tense use to express an action

which is happening right now
• It uses to express an activity that happen
regularly
Simple present tense expresses:
• Permanent situation (situasi yang selalu terjadi)
• general truth (fakta umum)
• habitual action (aktivitas rutin)
• future meaning (sesuatu yang sudah di tetapkan)
tradition ritual custom (tradisi, ritual, adat dan
kebudayaan)
• commands and instructions (perintah dan
isntruksi).
SIGNAL WORDS OF SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE

• All the time

• Always
• Frequently
• At times
• Everyday, every morning, every weekend
• Sometimes
• Forever
• Rarely
• Usually
• Often
 Verbal sentence of Simple Present Tense

• Verbal sentence is a sentence that has a verb

on it.
• The verb of simple present tense is placed
after subject
• For subject he, she, it, the verb is followed by
–s/-es