Progressive English

Simple Present Tense

When do we use the Simple Present tense?

We use the Simple Present to talk about actions that we often do or we don´t

This actions can be …

Hobbies

E.g.

I play Xbox every Sunday

My girl reads 1 book per month

We watch the soccer games every weekend

Habits

E.g.

I call my girl all nights

John doesn´t brush his teeth

Linda eats in that restaurant each Friday

Schedule events

E.g.

My cousin wakes up at 6:00 am

I run every days at 9 :00 am

I start to work at 7 : 00 am

How do we form the simple present tense?

Structures

Possitive structures

S + verb(infinitive form) + the context

E.g.

I play the guitar in the afternoons

You work in 7/11 in the nights

We study in Baird school

They jump in the bed all nights

Rules for the third person

For the third person(he, she, it) we have to add an “S” at the end of the verb(in some verbs).

E.g.

Susan travels to Europe each year

Jim eats pizza every weekend

Mike writes poems for his girlfriend

He plays “Master of puppets” in the guitar very well

Negative form

We use in the negative form, the auxiliary don´t for the personal pronouns: I, You, We They.

Structure S+don´t+verb(infinitive) + context

E.g.

I don´t play the piano in the school

We don´t like the sushi

They don´t speak english fluently

Negative form

We use in the negative form, the auxiliary doesn´t for the personal pronouns: He, she, it.

Structure: S+ doesn´t + verb(infinitive)+ context

E.g.

Mike doesn´t run in the park

Jenny doesnt like the pizza

Walter doesn´t drink alcohol

Louis doesn´t spend time in the computer

Structure for questions

Do + S(I,you we,they)+ verb(infinitive)?

Does+ S(he,she, it) + Verb(infinitive)?

E.g.

Do you speak english?

Do we understand the class?

Does your father work in a factory?

Does Phil know about cars?

Rules in some verbs for the third person in possitive form

In verbs that end in : SS, SH, CH, O,X. We have to add at the end of the verb “es”.

* Just in third person in possitive way*

E.g.

Will kisses his wife before he goes to work

Sam fishes in that lake every month

Chris watches the soccer game in that pub each Saturday.

Susan goes to the movies on Weekends

Another rules for the verbs in third person in possitive sentences

When the verb ends in consonant + Y , we have to drop the “Y” and use the “ies”

*Just in third

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