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Present Simple Tense Explained

The document discusses the present simple tense in English. It is formed with auxiliary verbs like DO/DOES in interrogative forms and DON'T/DOESN'T in negative forms. For third person singular subjects like he/she/it, -S/-ES is added to the main verb in affirmative sentences. Some examples of forming interrogative and negative sentences in the present simple tense are provided.

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Present Simple Tense Explained

The document discusses the present simple tense in English. It is formed with auxiliary verbs like DO/DOES in interrogative forms and DON'T/DOESN'T in negative forms. For third person singular subjects like he/she/it, -S/-ES is added to the main verb in affirmative sentences. Some examples of forming interrogative and negative sentences in the present simple tense are provided.

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Present Simple Tense is formed with the auxiliary DO/DOES in the

interrogative form, and DON’T/DOESN’T in the negative form.


We go there. Do we go there?
We don’t go there.

 HE – SHE – IT add –s/-es to the verb, so their auxiliary is


DOES/DOESN’T.
He studies. Does he study?
He doesn’t study.

Turn into the interrogative and negative: Fill in the blanks with DO/DOES, DON’T/DOESN’T:

He eats… My friends………not always go to school on foot, they

_______________________________________ sometimes take the bus.


………you know that man? I …………remember his name.
_______________________________________
She does. Where ………our teacher come from? ……… she live in
Boston?
_______________________________________
Susan ………… watch TV after she finishes her
_______________________________________
homework, she plays with her little sister.
It flies. What ………this girl want? …..…… she want an apple?
_______________________________________ ……..…your brothers drink a cup of tea in the morning?
Or ……… they prefer to have some juice? I ………like tea,
_______________________________________
so I ………… usually drink it in the morning.

Choose the correct form:

We don’t goes/go to school in the morning, but our


Write –S/-ES cousin say/says he goes/go to school in the afternoon,
in the
affirmative so he wakes/wake up later in the morning.
for HE – SHE
- IT! Where do/does this flower come/comes from?
Do/does you love lilies, Angela?
Does/do he drink/drinks milk in the morning? What
Don’t write –S/- about dinner, does/do he eats/eat pasta or meat?
ES in the
interrogative Tim likes/like his colleagues a lot, they don’t/doesn’t
and negative for
HE – SHE - IT! laugh at him, even if when he doesn’t/ don’t does/do
his homework.

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