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.
I smoke (habit); I work in London (unchanging situation); London is a large city (general truth)
You walk for two hundred meters, then you turn left.
Your exam starts at 09.00
He'll give it to you when you come next Saturday.
FORMING THE 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. |
NOTES ON THE 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
reference: http://www.ef.com/english-resources/english-grammar/simple-present-tense/
he wants, she needs, he gives, she thinks.
He wants ice cream. Does he want strawberry? He does not want vanilla.
fly --> flies, cry --> cries
Exception: if there is a vowel before the -y:
play --> plays, pray --> prays
he passes, she catches, he fixes, it pushes
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