Learn everything about Simple present tense

 

     This lesson will particularly help intermediate level English language students.
     

                                 

     SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE

Simple present or present indefinite tense is frequently used in spoken and in written English. It is no exaggeration to say, you can't speak English if you don't know present simple tense. 

In this article we will try to make understanding simple present tense easy for you in a way that we can on your own master it. 

POINT TO REMEMBER:

1)     Present tense is used to speak of habitual actions / routine actions    or universal facts.

Example : I go to school.   ( habit) 

Time waits for none. (universal facts)

Man is greedy.  

Power corrupts.

Plants give us oxygen. 

The sun rises every day.

 

Structure  for he/she/it and singular nouns:

Subject           + verb 1^st form +s/es             + object

He                   eats                             dinner.

She                  plays                           trick.

It                     rains                           here.

Ali                    lives                            in Dubai.

Sir                    teaches                      us English.

In order to make it interrogative, we put question word DOES at the beginning of the sentence, remove S or ES and put question mark  (?) at the end.

FORMULA:

Does   + subject        + verb 1^st form +       object.

Does   + he               + eat               + dinner?

                                    Home work

Change the remaining four sentence in interrogative.

Changing in negative:

Formula:

Subject           + does not     + verb 1^st form             + object

He                   does not        eat                 dinner. 

Now change the remaining four sentences into negative.