Present Simple - usage, formation, examples.

This is the lecture on the present simple tense present simple is usually the first 10 such as learned but it does not mean that is only used in simple situations.

The present simple has many uses even in advanced language and strangely this is not used for describing actions that are happening right now.

For that we need the present continuous present simple is used for habits repeated actions unchanging situations instructions general truths and fixed arrangements so how do we form the simple present.

We have four options in the positive case the subject plus conjugated verb and as an example.

I like ice cream that I lie I is a subject like is how to like is conjugated for first person singular and so yet I like ice cream.

a negative statement.

We need the help of verb to do so subject plus a do or does not plus infinitive without two.

So we don’t like ice cream which is the abbreviated form of we do not like ice cream and like is the infinitive without too as a question do or does the subject plus infinitive without too.

So does she like ice cream and as a negative question do or does not plus subject plus infinitive without two.

Doesn’t he like ice cream some look at some examples for habits I drink coffee at breakfast so everyday I have a cup of coffee with my breakfast I smoke cigarettes presumably again to habits for repeated actions every year we go on holiday to Spain where we go is the present simple part I get the bus to work every day I get is the present simple part and for unchanging situations he works in Washington that’s his permanent job not a temporary situation they speak fluent French they’re not going to suddenly forget how to speak French it’s an unchanging situation and they speak is this present simple part for instructions if somebody is asking the way some way you can say we go to the end of the road and then you turn right so you comes up twice a present simple you go and then you turn or what you might typically see on the back of a packet of foodstuffs pour the contents into cold water and stir for two minutes and there’s no subject here because they’re using the sort of command or imperative form and it’s pour the contents of pour is the verb and stir is the verb both present simple for general truth and also zero conditionals we can say the Earth goes around the sun goes is the verb it’s a general truth and for zero conditionals we can say if you heat ice it melts you heat and it melts are the present simple parts and lastly fixed arrangements the exam starts at fourteen hundred so at two o’clock in the afternoon the exam starts.

This is known in advance and it’s a fixed arrangement or we leave tomorrow at six o’clock.

Again the arrangement is known in advance and we are saying that at six o’clock tomorrow we will leave.