2. Simple present and its usage:
1) To express general statements of fact or timeless truth.
2) To express habitual or everyday activities.
3. Affirmative statement
To make an Affirmative simple present statement, simply
follow this pattern:
Subject+main verb in base form
4. Examples:
1) To express general statements of fact or
timeless truth.
•Water consists of hydrogen and oxygen.
•The world is round.
5. Examples:
2) To express habitual or everyday activities.
•I study for two hours every night.
•I get up at seven every morning.
6. Negative statement
To make a negative simple present statement, simply
follow the following pattern:
Subject+doesn’t/don’t+main verb in base form
Ahmad speaks English.
You play tennis.
Ahmad doesn’t speak English.
You don’t play tennis.
7. Question
To make a question in the simple present, simply follow the
following pattern:
do/does+subject+main verb in base form
Ahmad speaks English.
Does Ahmad speak
English?
You play tennis.
Do you play tennis?
8. Present simple form
Affirmative
Negative
I don’t speak
I speak English
English
You don’t speak
you speak English
English
he,she,it speak
he,she,it doesn’t
English
speak English
we don’t speak
We speak English.
English
You don’t speak
You speak English
English
Question
Do I speak
English?
Do you speak
English?
Does he,she,it
speak? English
Do we speak
English?
Do you speak
English?
9. Spelling rule for simple present:
The third person singular is formed by adding
an s to base form( He eats)
an es to the verb ending in ss,x,ch,sh,o
fix
watch
fixes
watche
s
10. Exercise:
Make sentences in simple present tense.
Affirmative
I play football
Negative
I don’t play
football
Question
Do you play
football
Does he like
computer
He doesn’t like
computer
She doesn’t
Does she live in
She lives in
live in New
New York
New York
York
They eat eggs They don’t eat Do they eat
for the
eggs for the
eggs for the
He like
computer
