PRESENT SIMPLE TENSE

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Present simple

Present simple is used: *To describe permanent situations: Jane lives in Canada

Present simple is used: *To describe repeated/habitual actions He wakes up at 7:00 every morning

Present simple is used: *To talk about general truths Water boils at 100°C

*To talk about future actions related to official programmes and timetables Our plane leaves at 10a.m. tomorrow

*To refer to the plot of a book, film, etc. Oliver Twist goes to the workhouse at the age of nine.

*In sport commentaries Messi shoots and he scores!!

Affirmative sentences

I work from 9 to 5pm You work ... He works ... She works... It works.... we work.. They work ...

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Negative sentences

I don't work You don't work He doesn't work She doesn't work It doesn't work we work / They work

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Interrogative form

Do I work...? Do you work...? Does he work...? Does she work..? Does it work? Do we work? Do they work?

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Auxiliaries for present simple tense Do / Don't = Do not -----> I, You, We, They Does / doesn't = does not ------> He, She, It

Wh- question present simple

Who do you live with? I live with my sister

What do you have for breakfast? I usually have a sandwich and coffee for breakfast

When do you go on vacation? I go on vacation in the summer

Where does she live? She lives in Vancouver; Canada.