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Understanding Present Simple Tense

The document provides an overview of the present simple tense in English, detailing its usage for repeated actions, general truths, fixed arrangements, and instructions. It outlines the formation of affirmative and negative sentences, including specific rules for different subjects. Additionally, it includes a table of auxiliary verbs 'to be' and 'to have' in the present simple.

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Understanding Present Simple Tense

The document provides an overview of the present simple tense in English, detailing its usage for repeated actions, general truths, fixed arrangements, and instructions. It outlines the formation of affirmative and negative sentences, including specific rules for different subjects. Additionally, it includes a table of auxiliary verbs 'to be' and 'to have' in the present simple.

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Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research Course: English

University of Guelma 08 May 1945 Level: A2


CEIL Guelma Teacher: Sawsen Bechkoura

Present simple

We use simple present when we talk about something that happens repeatedly.

We use the simple present to describe a series of actions in the present.

● Usage:

1) Repeated actions:

- My friend often draws nice posters.

2) Things in general:

- The sun rises in the East.

3) Fixed arrangements, schedules events:

- The plane flies to London every Monday.

4) Actions in the present- one follows after the other:

- First, I get up, then I have breakfast.

5) Instructions:

- Open your books at page 34.

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Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research Course: English
University of Guelma 08 May 1945 Level: A2
CEIL Guelma Teacher: Sawsen Bechkoura

Signal words: every day, often, always, sometimes, never, usually, first….then….

1) Affirmative vs Negative Forms:

1- Affirmative/ Positive Forms:

Infinitive form with; I, you, we, they = subject+ stem (infinitive verb)

Example: I (to write) = I write

Note: here the verb stays as it is without any additions, we only remove the infinitive marker

“to”.

Infinitive form with; she, he, it = subject+ stem (infinitive verb) + S

Example: she (to speak) = she speaks

Note 01: Here we remove the infinitive marker “to”, and we add S to the verb.

Note 02: With she, he, it, the verbs that ends in s, x, sh, ch, and o, we add“es” to them.

Example 01: He (to go) = he goes

Example 02: She (to watch) = she watches

Note 03: With she, he, it, the verbs that ends in “y” we add “ies” to them.

Example: She (to study) = she studies

2- Negative Forms:

Negation with personal pronouns: I, you, we, they = don’t (do not) + stem (infinitive verb).

Example: I practice swimming = I don’t practice swimming.

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Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research Course: English
University of Guelma 08 May 1945 Level: A2
CEIL Guelma Teacher: Sawsen Bechkoura

Negation with personal pronouns: she, he, it = doesn’t (does not) + stem (infinitive verb).

Example: My sister studies mathematics = my sister (she) doesn’t study mathematics.

2) Auxiliary verbs or helping verbs (to be, to have) in the present simple:

P To be P To have

I am I have

You are You have

He is He has

She is She has

It is It has

We are We have

They are They have

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