Scribd
Upload
4 views9 pages

Present Simple Grammar Guide

The document provides an overview of the present simple tense in English, detailing its use for habits, permanent situations, and general truths. It includes rules for forming affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences, along with specific guidelines for verb conjugation based on their endings. Additionally, it explains the placement of adverbs of frequency in sentences.

Uploaded by

KevinGamaParra
Copyright
© All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
4 views9 pages

Present Simple Grammar Guide

The document provides an overview of the present simple tense in English, detailing its use for habits, permanent situations, and general truths. It includes rules for forming affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences, along with specific guidelines for verb conjugation based on their endings. Additionally, it explains the placement of adverbs of frequency in sentences.

Uploaded by

KevinGamaParra
Copyright
© All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd

Grammar Study:

Present
Simple
C:\Documents and Settings\vanda\Definições locais\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\UH0M8YUM\MC900432685[1].png
✓To refer to habits or to things
which happen repeatedly.

✓To refer to permanent


situations.

✓ To talk about general


statements of truth.

C:\Documents and Settings\vanda\Definições locais\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\UH0M8YUM\MC900432685[1].png


✓Affirmative .
He / She / It plays .
I / You / We / They play.

✓Negative.
He / She / It doesn´t play .
I / You / We / They don´t play.

C:\Documents and Settings\vanda\Definições locais\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\UH0M8YUM\MC900432685[1].png


✓Interrogative:
Does He / She / It play ?
Do I / You / We / They play?

✓Short forms:
Does not = Doesn´t

Do not = don´t

C:\Documents and Settings\vanda\Definições locais\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\UH0M8YUM\MC900432685[1].png


✓How to make he / she/
it forms:
General rule

It takes –s.
Example:

Play → Plays.

C:\Documents and Settings\vanda\Definições locais\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\UH0M8YUM\MC900432685[1].png


With verbs ending in :o, s, x, sh
or ch:

It takes – es .

Example:

Teach→ Teaches.

C:\Documents and Settings\vanda\Definições locais\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\UH0M8YUM\MC900432685[1].png


With verbs ending in vowel + y:

It takes – s .

Example:

Play→ Plays.

C:\Documents and Settings\vanda\Definições locais\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\UH0M8YUM\MC900432685[1].png


With verbs ending in consonant
+ y:

It changes –y into – I and takes


–es.
Example:

Study → Studies.

C:\Documents and Settings\vanda\Definições locais\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\UH0M8YUM\MC900432685[1].png


✓Note that:
Adverbs of frequency like
usually, sometimes, almost,
never, etc, are used to express
how often things happen.
They come:
▪Before the verb. For example: I
usually go to school by bus.
•After the verb To Be. For
example: She is often with her
friends at weekends.
C:\Documents and Settings\vanda\Definições locais\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\UH0M8YUM\MC900432685[1].png

You might also like