Simple Present Tense (Action Verbs)

The Simple Present Tense is used to express two concepts when it is formed with action verbs,

they are: General Information and Habits

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AFFIRMATIVE             NEGATIVE              INTERROGATIVE

I play                           I don’t play               Do I play?

You play                     You don´t play          Do you play?

he plays                      He doesn´t play        Does he play?

she plays                     She doesn´t play      Does she play?

It plays                        It doesn´t play           Does it play?

We play                      We don´t play           Do we play?

You play                    You don´t play           Do you play?

They play                   They don´t play         Do they play?

FORMULAS =

 

Examples:

1) I play tennis (General information)

2) I play tennis on Sundays (Habit)

                                                Time Expression

The difference between a sentence with the concept of

the concept

auxiliary and the verb is used in its

use the auxiliary Do, and the verb is in its

general information and one withhabits is a time expression. As you can see in affirmative there’s nopresent form, but in negative and interrogative wesimple form.

It’s also important to notice that with the third person we add a final “s” to the verb in

affirmative, and the auxiliary changes to doesn’t in negative and to Does in

interrogative. See the following chart.

            

           Auxiliary     Form of Verb          3rd person

Aff             X            Present               V + s

Neg           √            Simple               Doesn’t

int             √            Simple                Does

 (Sub + verb in present) Sub + aux negative + VSF Aux + Sub + VSF