PRESENT TENSE

PRESENT TENSE

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 truth)

> To give instructions or directions:
you walk for two hundred meters, then you turn left.

>To express fixed arrangements, present or future:
your exam starts at 09.00am


EXAMPLES:

• For habits
  he drinks tea at breakfast
  she only eat fish.
• For repeated action or events.
  we catch the bus every morning.
  it rain every afternoon in the hot season.
  they drive to Monaco every summer.
• For general truths
  the earth revolves around the sun.
• For instructions or directions.
  open the packet and pour the contents into hot water.
  you take the number six bus to Watney and then the number ten to Bedford.
• For fixed arrangements
  his mother arrives tomorrow.
  our holiday starts on the 26th march.

A. VERBAL SENTENCE

1. Affirmative formS + Verb1(s/es) + object

 Adverb of time :
- Always      - Ever
- Never        - At last
- Every
- Often
- Seldom
- Usually
- Sometimes






   2.  Negative Form
        S + do/does + Not + Verb1 + Object

  

3.  Interrogative form
       do/does + S + Verb1 + Object



> Add -es or -ed to verbs ending in: -ss,-x,-sh,-ch
   he passed, she catched, he Fixes, it pushes.



B. NON VERBAL SENTENCES

AFFIRMATIVE FORM

Subject + to be(am, is, are) + noun/adjective/adverb

NEGATIVE FORM

Subject + to be(am, is, are) + NOT +noun/adjective/adverb

INTERROGATIVE FORM

To be(am, is, are)+ Subject + noun/adjective/adverb

EXAMPLES:

> Verb 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