The Present Simple Shumaila Abdul Mueed

Uses For state of a noun For repeated actions; She is pretty The flat is clean The farmer owns the land For repeated actions; I visit my grand mother every week For thoughts and feeling; I think so, I like it

Uses For negative question with why to make a suggestion; Why don’t we go out For the planned future specially for a journey; What time does your train leave tomorrow Next Friday is the thirteenth My school starts at seven tomorrow We leave Lahore at 10 AM next Tuesday and arrive in Karachi at 11 PM For routine or habitual actions; He smokes Dogs bark Whenever it rains, the roof leaks When you open the door a light goes on

Uses For adverbs or adverb phrases like always, never, occasionally, often, sometimes, usually, every week, on Mondays, twice a year etc; How often do you wash your hair It rains in August For newspaper headlines; Pakistan beats Australia by 10 runs Peace talks fail once again Mass murderer escapes

Uses For dramatic narrative (radio commentators at sports events public functions etc. and describing the action of a play/opera); Here comes Shoaib Akhter for his last over When the curtain rises Juliet is writing at her desk. Suddenly the window opens and the masked man enters For conditional sentences type 1 If I see Rida I will ask her Unless you take the brake off the car won’t move

Uses For time clauses: For imperative mood; command When there is an idea of routine As soon as he earns any money he spends it She takes the boy to school before she goes to work When the main verb is in a future form When it stops raining we will go out For imperative mood; command Stand easy Pay attention Sit down

Uses For states, things staying the same, facts and things that true for a long time; They live quite near For phrases like I promise, I agree etc; I promise I will pay you back

Formation of the Simple Present Positive form: With 1st person singular/plural, 2nd person singular/plural and 3rd person plural like: I/we/you/they/plural nouns 1st form of the Verb (V1) Most children like ice-cream I don’t like cricket, I love it With 3rd person singular like: He/she/it/singular nouns (name etc) 1st form of Verb (V1) + s/es He does well in exams It rains almost daily in January here

Practice Excercises: Book: Oxford Practice Grammar by John Eastwood Page 11, 13, 15, 37, 65, 67 & 370

Reference: Oxford Practice Grammar by John Eastwood. A Practical English Grammar by A.J Thomson & A. V. Martinet