Simple Present Tense

SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE

• The Simple Present Tense is one of several forms of present tense in English.
• It is used to describe habits, unchanging situations, general truths, and fixed arrangements.
• The Simple Present Tense is formed by using the base form of the verb: (I take, you take, we take, they take). The 3rd person singular takes an -s at the end. (he takes, she takes)

  

Simple present tense is used in many ways:

1) To express a habitual action

Examples:

• He drinks tea every morning.

  

• I get up every day at five o’clock.   

  

My watch keeps good time. 

(2) To express general truths.

Examples: 

• The sun rises in the east. 

• Honey is sweet.

• Fortune favours the brave.

​(3) In exclamatory sentences, beginning with here and there, simple present tense is used to express what is actually taking place in the present.

Examples:

• Here comes the train ! 

  

• There she goes ! 

  

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(4) To express a future event that is part of a fixed timetable or fixed programme.

• The next flight is at 7,00 tomorrow morning.

• The match starts at 9 o’clock.​​​​​​​

• he train leaves at 5.20.

• ​​​​​​​​​When does the coffee shop reopen? ​​

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