SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE

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Simple Present Tense

The simple present tense is used to indicate a situation that exists right now, it is used for general statements of fact and used for habitual or everyday activity.

a. Habitual action

Doni ussualy eats fried rice for breakfast

b. General truth

A year has twelve months

1.       Verbal Sentence Formula:

Subject (I, You, We, They) + infinitive
Subject (He, She, It) + infinitive + -s/-es
Examples:
1.      I study English.
2.      He plays football.
3.      They go to library.
4.      She passes the exam.
5.      You drink a cup of coffe

2.      Nominal Sentence’ Formula:
Subject + is/am/are + object
Examples:
1.      I go to school everyday.
2.      I am from Singapore.
3.      You are a nice girl.
4.      She is a writer.
a.       Present Continuous Tense

       3. Verbal Sentence’s Formula:

Subject + is/am/are + verb-ing
Examples:
1)     I am studying English now.
2)     My father is reading newspaper this moment.

4. Nominal Sentence’ Formula:
      Subject + is/am/are + being + object
      Examples:
1)     She is being polite to me.
2)     They are being more creative after see Delima’s drawing.

Examp:

(+) I am a teacher

(-) I am not teacher

(?) am I a teacher?

Yes, I am

No, I am not

(+) I like eat banana

(-) I don’t like eat banana

(?) Do you like eat banana?

Yes, I do like

No, I don’t like

The PRESENT TENSE uses the verb's base form (write, work), or, for third-person singular subjects, the base form plus an -s ending (he writes, she works).

The PRESENT TENSE indicates that an action is present, now, relative to the speaker or writer. Generally, it is used to describe actions that are factual or habitual -- things that occur in the present but that are not necessarily happening right now: "It rains a lot in Portland" is a kind of timeless statement. Compare that to the present progressive -- "It is raining in Portland" -- which means that something is, in fact, going on right now. "I use my bike to get around town." is in the present, but I'm not actually on my bike right now. An instantaneous sense of the present can be conveyed with either the simple present or the progressive: "Watch him now: he holds [is holding] down the control key at the same time that he presses [is pressing] the letter d."