Simple Present Tense

Definition & Usage:

Simple Present Tense is used to express daily routine or activity, habitual action and something true

according to mostly people.

Summary :
1. Expressing daily routine or activity

   For Examples:

   Budi often attends saturday meeting.
   My father works in the rice-field to finance his family.
   She goes on a picnic once in a month.

2. Expressing habitual action

   For Examples:

   I always wake up early in the morning.
   Linda usually drink a cup of milk before going to bed.
   Uncle Tom likes reading a daily newspaper in the evening.

3. Expressing general Truth

   For Examples:

   She is Dewi Adriani.
   The sun rises in the east.
   Water boils 100 degrees of celcius.

Pattern :
A. Nominal Sentence  
   Subject + Be + Non-Verb

   For Example:

   (+) She is a nurse.
   (-) She is not a nurse.
   (?) Is she a nurse?

B. verbal Sentence  
   Subject + verb-1 + Object/Adverb/Complement  
   For Example:

   (+) They work hard all day.
   (-) They do not work hard all day.
   (?) Do they work hard all day?

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Exercises :

Instruction : Please fill in the blank with a correct pattern of simple Present Tense

1. She ..... a lawyer in her town.
2. .... you like an apple?
3. Where .... she live?
4. How much .... the large car?
5. What ... the tool for?
6. We ... believe him anymore.
7. How many students .... there in the classroom?
8. ... it my fault?
9. I .... a student anymore but an employee.
10.We .... know him yet.

Introduction (by author)

Learning English as a second language, perhaps, is rather difficult. Indonesian which has many ethnics and languages have their own point of views in speaking and interacting. Learning English feels hard when the dialectical tendency still influences in their learning.

However, In this simple blog, you will learn 16 tenses which will be discussed as detailed as possible. I don't mean that we will not discuss other lessons like reported speech, causative "have/has" or others. 

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