The simple present tense is one of the most common tenses in English. It may be used to express:<\/p>\n
The simple present tense is NOT<\/strong> used to express action that is happening now. We use present continuous for that.<\/p>\n We form the present simple by using: \u2013<\/strong> Subject<\/strong> +<\/strong> Infinitive or Third Person + Infinitive + (s). <\/strong>For the person infinitives we add:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Let\u2019s take a look at some examples:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n You can ask questions with the simple present tense using the following formulae:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You can add \u201cnot\u201d after \u201cdo\u201d and \u201cdoes\u201d to create a negative sentence. For example: I do not read books, she does not read books.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Let\u2019s do some exercises with what we have learned already. Place the appropriate simple present word in the gaps: watch, wash, drive, talk, know, enjoy, read, know.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Let\u2019s _____ the window.<\/p>\n He _____ TV all day.<\/p>\n She _____ with her mother on the phone every day.<\/p>\n She _____ so many things that I don\u2019t ____.<\/p>\n Do you know how to _____ a car?<\/p>\n I ____ drinking tea. || I heard he likes to ____ books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The simple present tense is one of the most common tenses in English. It may be used to express: general truths; a habitual action; an occurrence in the future; commands The simple present tense is NOT used to express action that is happening now. We use present continuous for that. We form the present simple … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verb-tenses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\n First person<\/td>\n Third person<\/td>\n Notes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n The world is round<\/td>\n <\/td>\n this is a general truth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n I drink coffee every morning<\/td>\n He drinks coffee every morning<\/td>\n this is a habitual action<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n I\u2019ll see you soon<\/td>\n She\u2019ll see you soon<\/td>\n this is talking about the future<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Walk down and to the left<\/td>\n <\/td>\n this is a command<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n \n