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Present Simple

The document provides examples of different uses of the present simple tense in English, including to state facts, describe habitual actions, refer to present situations, ask and answer questions about frequency, make declarations, provide instructions and itineraries, reference future times, summarize events, and use the historic present in stories. It also gives examples of how adverbs can make habitual actions more precise.

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Present Simple

The document provides examples of different uses of the present simple tense in English, including to state facts, describe habitual actions, refer to present situations, ask and answer questions about frequency, make declarations, provide instructions and itineraries, reference future times, summarize events, and use the historic present in stories. It also gives examples of how adverbs can make habitual actions more precise.

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FORM: We add s to the base form of the verb in the third person sg I You He She It work work works

works works We work You work They work ... in an office

Do I work / Does she works? USES: 1. Facts that are always true Water boils at 100 degrees. Summer follows Spring. 2. Habitual actions I get up at seven. John smokes a lot.

we can be more precise about habitual actions by using adverbs of indefinite frequency (always, ever, never etc) or with adverbial phrases (every day/month/week; once/twice; every morning/evening) 3. To refer to events, actions or situations which are true in the present period of time and which, for all we know, may continue indefinitely (this is the situation as it stands in present) My mother works in a hospital. My brother wears glasses. 4. To ask and answer questions which begin with How often? How often do you go to the dentist? I go every six months. 5. Making declarations (usu with stative verbs) I hope youll come to my party. I love you. 6. Headlines Ship sinks in midnight collision 7. Instructions and itineraries First you roll out the pastry... On day three we visit Stratford-upon-Avon... 8. Future references (often related to timetables and programmes or to events in the calendar) The exhibitions opens on January 1st and closes on January 31st. We leave tomorrow at 11.15 and arrive at 17.50.

9. Summaries of events (plots of stories, films etc, and summaries of historical events) May 1945: the war in Europe comes to an end At the end of the play both families realise that their hatred had caused the death of the overs... 10. Historic present in narrative and fanny stories So then the second man asks the first one why he has a banana in his ear and the first one says

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