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