2. DEFINITION AND PURPOSE
▪ Simple Present tense is a tense that purposed for:
a.Telling regular habits or daily routine
e.g. : I play soccer every Friday
The school opens every morning at 7 A.M.
b.Telling facts or generalizations
e.g. : Cats like milk
Jakarta is the capital of Indonesia
3. DEFINITION AND PURPOSE
▪ Simple Present tense is a tense that purposed for:
c.Telling scheduled events in the near future
e.g. : The bus leaves tonight at 6 P.M.
The party starts at 8 o’clock.
4. DEFINITION AND PURPOSE
The use of simple present tense often followed by adverbs that show habits
just like:
Always
Often
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
Every day/hour/time
5. GRAMMAR RULES
Simple present tense use verb 1 in its pattern.
e.g. : love, walk, buy, bring, etc.
However, there is something that must be consider in using simple
present tense.
It is the subject-verb agreement.
Verb, in the simple present tense, can change into verb + s/es according
to the subject where it attached.
6. GRAMMAR RULES
The use of s/es in the verb are related to the subject of the sentence.
If the subject is a 3rd person singular (he, she, it, names), the verb
should be attached with s/es in the end.
For example:
I live inYogyakarta.
He lives inYogyakarta.
They live inYogyakarta.
Andrew lives inYogyakarta.
7. GRAMMAR RULES
We can add an –s almost in every end of the verbs.
However, it is not always all the verbs can be added by –s.There are
verbs that should be added by –es instead of –s.
The verbs that can be added by –es are one which ends in:
-o, -ss, -ch, and –x
e.g. :
I go to the market. Donny goes to the market.
He goes to the market. They go to the market.
8. GRAMMAR STRUCTURES
Simple present tense has its own pattern.There are 3 patterns, which are
affirmative, negative, and interrogative pattern.
Affirmative
Subject + verb 1(-s/es) + complement
Negative
Subject + do/does (use does if the subject is 3rd person singular) + not + verb 1+
complement
Interogative
Do/does + Subject + verb 1 + complement + ? (read: question mark)
9.
10. GRAMMAR STRUCTURES
For example:
a. They play soccer every Friday.
They do not play soccer every Friday.
Do they play soccer every Friday?
b. He goes to market.
He does not go to the market.
Does he go to the market?
