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Understanding the Present Simple Tense

The simple present tense is used to describe habitual or repeated actions that occur frequently but make no reference to whether they are happening at the present time. It is used for general truths, scheduled events, and instructions. To form the simple present tense, for first person subjects "I", "you", "we", and "they" the infinitive form of the verb is used, and for third person subjects "he", "she", and "it" an "s" is added to the end of the verb. Examples are given of verbs conjugated in the simple present tense.

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Understanding the Present Simple Tense

The simple present tense is used to describe habitual or repeated actions that occur frequently but make no reference to whether they are happening at the present time. It is used for general truths, scheduled events, and instructions. To form the simple present tense, for first person subjects "I", "you", "we", and "they" the infinitive form of the verb is used, and for third person subjects "he", "she", and "it" an "s" is added to the end of the verb. Examples are given of verbs conjugated in the simple present tense.

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THE SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE

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 El Presente Simple es un tiempo verbal que
se utiliza para describir acciones habituales
que suceden con cierta frecuencia y no hace
referencia a si está ocurriendo en el momento
actual.
 The Present Simple is a verb tense that is
used to describe habitual actions that happen
with certain frequency and does not make
reference to if it is happening at the present
time.
algunos de sus usos
 Para dar instrucciones o indicaciones:
You walk for two hundred meters, then you
turn left.
 Para hablar de eventos programados, presentes
o futuros:
Your exam starts at 09.00.
 Para referirse al futuro, detrás de algunas
conjunciones: after, when, before, as soon as,
until:
He'll give it to you when you come next
Saturday.
Ejemplos
 Hábitos y rutinas
He drinks tea at breakfast.
She only eats fish.
They watch television regularly.
 Eventos y acciones repetidos
We catch the bus every morning.
It rains every afternoon in the hot season.
They drive to Monaco every summer.
 Hechos generales
Water freezes at zero degrees.
The Earth revolves around the Sun.
Her mother is Peruvian.
 Instrucciones o indicaciones
Open the packet and pour the contents into hot water.
You take the No.6 bus to Watney and then the No.10 to Bedford.
 Eventos programados
His mother arrives tomorrow.
Our holiday starts on the 26th March
 Construcciones de futuro
She'll see you before she leaves.
We'll give it to her when she arrives.
Las reglas gramaticales
 Para conjugar el presente simple usamos el infinitivo para
los sujetos “I”, “you”, “we” y “they” y para las terceras
personas “he”, “she” y “it”, añadimos un “-s” al final del
verbo.
 Sujeto
 I, you, we, they
 Conjugación
 talk, eat, learn, do, go…
 Sujeto
 he, she, it
 Conjugación
 talks, eats, learns, does, goes…
FORMACIÓN DEL SIMPLE
PRESENT:TO THINK
 Afirmativa:
 I think
 You think
 He thinks
 She thinks
 It thinks
 We think
 They think
FORMACIÓN DEL SIMPLE
PRESENT:TO THINK
 Interrogativa:
 Do I think?
 Do you think?
 Does he think?
 Does she think?
 Does it think?
 Do we think?
 Do they think?
FORMACIÓN DEL SIMPLE
PRESENT:TO THINK
 Negativa:
 I do not think
 You do not think
 He does not think
 She does not think
 It does not think
 We do not think.
 They do not think.

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