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Present simple


The simple present tense is used:

  • To express habits, general truths, repeated actions or unchanging situations, emotions and wishes:
I smoke (habit); I work in London (unchanging situation); London is a large city (general truth)
  • To give instructions or directions:
You walk for two hundred meters, then you turn left.
  • To express fixed arrangements, present or future:
Your exam starts at 09.00
  • To express future time, after some conjunctions: after, when, before, as soon as, until:
    He'll give it to you when you come next Saturday.
He'll give it to you when you come next Saturday.





Forming the present simple with verb "to think":


Notes on the third person singular:
  • In the third person singular the verb always ends in -s:
                      he wants, she needs, he gives, she thinks.

  • Verbs ending in -y : the third person changes the -y to -ies:
                           fly --> flies, cry --> cries
             Exception: if there is a vowel before the -y:

                         play --> plays, pray --> prays

  • Add -es to verbs ending in:-ss, -x, -sh, -ch:
                 he passes, she catches, he fixes, it pushes



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