Simple present tense

The simple present tense is one of several forms of present tense in English. It is used to describe habits, unchanging situations, general truths, and fixed arrangements. The simple present tense is simple to form. Just use the base form of the verb: (I take, you take, we take, they take) The 3rd person singular takes an -s at the end. (he takes, she takes)

The simple present tense is used:

• To express habits, general truths, repeated actions 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 09.00
• To express future time, after some conjunctions: after, when, before, as soon as, until:
  He'll give it to you when you come next Saturday

• Contoh

  • For habits
    He drinks tea at breakfast.
    She only eats fish.
    They watch television regularly.
  • 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
    Water freezes at zero degrees.
    The Earth revolves around the Sun.
    Her mother is Peruvian.
  • 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
  • With future constructions
    She'll see you before she leaves.
    We'll give it to her when she arrives.

  Bentuk simple present tense: to think

  Affirmative	Interrogative	Negative
  I think	Do I think?	I do not think
  You think	Do you think?	You do not think
  He thinks	Does he think?	He does not think
  She thinks	Does she think?	She does not think
  It thinks	Does it think?	It does not think
  We think	Do we think?	We do not think.
  They think	Do they think?	They do not think.

  Untuk simple present, third person singular
  

  In the third person singular the verb always ends in -s:
  he wants, she needs, he gives, she thinks.

  • Negative and question forms use DOES (= the third person of the auxiliary 'DO') + the infinitive of the verb.
    He wants ice cream. Does he want strawberry? He does not want vanilla.
  • 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
    

  Contoh

  • • She goes to school every morning.
    • He understands English.
    • It mixes the sand and the water.
    • She tries very hard.
    • He enjoys playing the piano.
    
    

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