Simple Present Tense

·         The Simple Present Tense Is Used:

-          To express habits, general truths, repeated action or unchanging situations, emotions, and wishes:

I smoke (habit),

I work in London (unchanging situation),

London is a large city (general truths).

-          To give instruction or direction:

You walk for two hundred meters, then you turn left.

-          To express fixed arrangements, present, or future:

Your exam start at 09.00.

·         Adverb Of Time:

1.       Always                                  5. Seldom 2.       Never                                   6. Usually 3.       Every                                     7. Sometimes 4.       Often

                                                                                                              

·         Verbal Sentence:     

- Positive Form

S + Verb I (s/es) + Object + .  

Example:

He goes to school. 

  - Negative Form

S + do/does + not + Verb I + Object + .

    Example:

It does not run very fast.

     

- Interrogative Form

S + Verb I (s/es) + Object + .  

Example:

Do you write the story ? 

 

-          Verbs ending in-y: the third person Changes the-y to-ies: Fly --- flies Cry---cries Exception: If there is a vowel before the-y: Play --- plays Pray --- prays -          Add-es to verbs ending in: -ss, -x, -sh, -ch: He passes, she catches, he fixes, it pushes.

                                  

·         Non Verbal Sentence

     

Positive Form

S + to be (am/is/are) + noun/adjective/adverb + .

Example:

They are in library.

  Negative Form

S + to be (am/is/are) + not + noun/adjective/adverb + .

Example:

They are not in library. 

  Interrogative Form

To be (am/is/are) + S + noun/adjective/adverb + ?

Example:

Are they in library?