PRESENT TENSE

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•      Using Simple present tense in positive, negative and interrogative sentences

•      Using Simple present tense in verbal and non verbal sentences

•      Using the simple present tense In making recipes or procedures

The simple present is used:

•      to express habits, general truths, repeated actions or unchanging situations, emotions and wishes:
I study (habit); I work in office(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 09.00

Examples:

•      For habits
He drinks  tea at breakfast.
She only eats  vegetables

•      For repeated actions or events
We catch  the bus every morning.
It rains  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 No.6 bus to Watney and then the No.10 to Bedford.

•      For  fixed arrangements
His mother arrives tomorrow.
Our holiday starts on the 26th March

Adverb of Time

o   Always                                

o   Never

o   Every

o   Often

o   Seldom

o   Usually

o   Sometimes

A.    VERBAL SENTENCE

ü  Affirmative Form

S +V1(-s/-es) +Object

ü  NEGATIVE FORM
S+ do/does+ not+ V1+ object

ü  INTERROGATIVE FORM
Do/does+ S+ V1+ Object?

Ex :

q  She makes her friend always happy

q  They play basketball every Sunday

q  Does He takes some food from refrigerator

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

2. Add –es to verbs ending in: -ss, -x, -sh, -ch :

      he passes, she catches, he fixes, it pushes

B.     NON VERBAL SENTACE

ü  AFFIRMATIVE FORM
S+ to be(am/is/are)+ noun/adjective/adverb

ü  NEGATIVE FORM
S+ to be+ not+ noun/adjective/adverb

ü  INTERROGATIVE FORM
To be+ S+ noun/adjective/adverb

Ex :

q  She is a teacher

q  His sister is not doctor

q  Are they students ?

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