English Simple Present Tense | Learn English Grammar

want to speak real english from your first lesson sign up for your free lifetime account at englishclass101.com hi everybody my name is alicia in this lesson i'm going to talk about simple present tense in english let's get started okay i want to begin this lesson by looking at when to use the simple present tense there are two points i want to focus on number one we use simple present tense to share facts so facts refers to information that is always true for example i speak english in this sentence speak is simple present tense in this

example he works in new york city this is a fact just information that is true works is a simple present tense verb in one more example they don't live in france don't live is simple present tense but it's just a negative they don't live in france so these are examples of simple facts we express facts with simple present tense the second use of simple present tense is to express regular actions so especially this is for items in a schedule or a time table when i say schedule or timetable i mean for example something that happens

every day at the same time or every week or every month or every year so it's something that we understand happens regularly so for example i visit my parents every month in this sentence visit is a simple present tense verb and we know that this is a regular action because we have this expression in the sentence every month in the next example the bus leaves at 3 pm leaves is in simple present tense this is part of a time table at 3 pm so we can understand this is part of a bus schedule finally he

doesn't call me every day he doesn't call me every day here again we have a negative expression he doesn't call is in simple present tense it's a negative expression and here we have every day so this shows an action that does not happen every day so these are the two ways to use or the two times to use simple present tense next i want to talk about how to make simple present tense first let's look at how to make statements statements i've broken this into positive and negative statements first let's take a look at how

to make positive statements we need to think about the subject of the sentence when we're making basic statements there are two ways to approach it if your subject is i you we or they we use this pattern so i you we or they plus our infinitive verb so infinitive verb means just the basic form of the verb there's no change to the verb like eat or sleep or drink just the basic verb form then we can add extra information so the most basic type of sentence is just a subject and a verb but in many

cases we want to add some more information we do this after the verb if however your subject is he she or it we use first the subject then the infinitive verb and then we add an s sound to the verb so in most cases we just change this to add simply an s so infinitive verb plus just an s in some cases we add e s and in some cases we add ies here is the rule for understanding which type of s ending to use we add e s this e s for verbs ending in

double s so ss for verbs ending in o s h c h t c h x and z so if the infinitive verb ends in one of these we need to add es when our subject is he she or it in a simple present tense statement if your subject is i you we are they there's no change to the verb so this is kind of a tricky point to keep in mind this will get easier with practice to remember then about this point this ies ending for verbs ending in a consonant so consonant means the

letters other the letters that are not a e i o and u and sometimes y but for verbs ending in consonant plus y we remove the y and we add i e s so i'll show you an example of this in just a moment so this is how we make positive statements with simple present tense let's like kind of compare this then to making negative statements negative statements when you want to make a negative statement again there are two kind of patterns to follow again the subject is very important here so if your subject is

i you we or they we include don't before the infinitive verb so yes you can also use do not but in everyday speech we use this reduced don't typically so do not sounds a little more stiff a little bit more formal we typically use don't in everyday speech so i don't or you don't we don't they don't plus infinitive verb so again no change to the verb and then in some cases we add some extra information at the end of the sentence the other pattern is the he she or it subject pattern if the subject

is he she or it we use doesn't doesn't so doesn't is the reduced form of does not so he doesn't she doesn't it doesn't plus infinitive verb no change here so when we make a positive statement we need to add an s sound to the end of the infinitive verb when we're making a negative statement we do not need to make any changes to the verb just a plain infinitive verb is perfect it's fine and then we can add our extra information after the verb so with this information in mind let's practice making a few

sentences with these examples so our first situation our first example they something something every day if i want to use the verb cook in this expression what should i do first i need to look at the subject of the sentence they i'm using they in this pattern this is a positive i know because there's no not here so i follow this pattern my pattern when they is the subject is just infinitive verb plus extra information so i know this should be cook they cook every day this is the correct sentence the next example she something

something reports every month my verb here is right right so i look at my subject my subject is she i know from my hint this is a positive sentence so there's no not here so i can go here so she is my subject infinitive verb plus an s sound i know that so which s ending should i use my verb here is right it doesn't end in any of these spellings and it doesn't end in consonant plus y so i know i should use just a simple s ending she writes reports every month is the

correct sentence she writes reports every month all right on to the next example he something something a car so here my clue is not have not have so my clue my hint here tells me this should be a negative statement so i'll start my search here in the negative section i see my sentence my subject is he so i know i should use this pattern he plus doesn't plus infinitive verb so again no change to the verb in a negative statement that means i can use doesn't plus have to make a negative so the final

sentence becomes he doesn't have a car he doesn't have a car all right one more example she something internationally four times a year internationally so internationally means outside her country or outside the place where she lives so my verb here is fly i see that this is probably a positive statement because there's no not here so fly and my subject is she okay so she plus infinitive verb now which s pattern should i use my verb is fly and it follows this pattern so it's a verb that ends in consonant plus y so l is

a consonant consonant plus y ending the rule is to remove y and add i e s so the correct answer is flies she flies internationally four times a year so this is how we can find the correct verb form to use depending on the sentence so your subject is very important here okay with that let's continue to making questions this is about how to make statements with simple present tense let's practice how to make questions with simple present tense again the subject of our sentence is very important let's take a look at these two to

begin these are our yes and no type question so when i say yes or no type question i mean the questions we can answer by saying just yes or no so to make yes or no questions uh in simple present tense we can use this pattern if our subject is i you we or they again do i do you do we do they plus our infinitive verb plus our extra information i included here do i this is kind of a rare pattern this do i because usually we don't ask ourselves like yes or no questions

but sometimes if you're the kind of person who talks to yourself sometimes as many of us are you might think to yourself a do i question like do i have a meeting today like you think out loud you're thinking to yourself you might say it out loud so this is kind of a rare pattern do i but you might use it when you talk to yourself so when we make a and yes or no question this is the pattern for i you we and they subjects if however your subject is he she or it we

use does to begin the question does he does she does it plus infinitive verb plus extra information so again notice when you're making a question you do not need to make a change to the infinitive verb there's no s here there's no s sound that's added when you're making a question we just need to to change the do or does to match the subject of our question so let's compare this to a w wh question so when i say wh question i mean who what where when why those questions so when we're asking these like

information questions we want to get some information more than just yes or no these are the patterns we use again subject is important here so we use wh question like who what where plus do plus your subject i you we they plus our infinitive verb and our extra information if however again our subject is he she or it we use wh question who what where does he infinitive verb extra information so let's practice these two types of question in these examples let's begin here there are two blanks you'll notice so something you something here my

verb here is work so i know that i need to put something in this one space and there's since there's only one space i can guess it's probably this pattern so this pattern the information question pattern requires two words before the subject so this one i can guess follows this pattern my subject is you so i know this part should be do do you and my verb here is work so do you work here my infinitive verb does not take any changes in this pattern do you work here so you might need to use this

if you're shopping and you find someone you have a question do you work here can i ask you a question okay on to the next one something he something in your neighborhood in your neighborhood so my verb is live live again one space here my subject is he so i go to this pattern and i have one word before my he subject so i understand this is does does he my verb is live in this pattern there's no change to the infinitive verb does he live in your neighborhood is perfect does he live in your

neighborhood okay on to the next pair these two are going to use this wh question pattern so what something we something for the party my verb is need need so i've added this to make it a little easier easier to understand what something we so here i have we where should i look for the pattern that uses we and before we is do what do we my infinitive verb takes no change so what do we need for the party is the correct question what do we need for the party at native speed one more when

something he something to the office so here my verb is go go again my subject here is he so i need to look at this pattern before he is does in between my question word and my subject so when does he my verb go takes no change in this pattern when does he go to the office when does he go to the office at native speed okay i want to end this lesson with a couple of kind of extra examples i've used these y patterns so you might know about this kind of advice pattern which

is using a why question to make a gentle suggestion and this takes kind of an interesting pattern uh we make this in kind of a special way so it's why something you something your computer in this case my verb is restart to restart a computer when we make these advice patterns though we use a negative here so we follow the same rule like this but in this portion the do or does portion we follow this rule right here we use the same negative words don't and doesn't this makes a kind of gentle soft advice or

suggestion pattern so in this case u is my subject we learned over here when u is the subject the negative is don't so we place it here we'll make the negative don't here why don't you no change to the verb why don't you restart your computer so this is a suggestion i'm having computer travel oh no i don't know what to do why don't you restart your computer is something your co-worker or your friend might say another example of this why something she something her schedule and my verb is change change so she is my

subject in the positive it's does we learned here the negative form is doesn't doesn't so why doesn't she no change why doesn't she change her schedule why does she change her schedule she seems so busy so these are the different ways we can make questions and advice and giving suggestions with simple present tense so this is an introduction to when to use how to make and a couple of extra points about simple present tense i hope that this lesson was helpful for you of course if you have any questions or comments or if you want

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