GRAMMAR - Present Tenses

GRAMMAR - Present Tenses

By Linh Diệu

Present Simple

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Present Simple

When to use?

• Things that happen all the time.

​- I always have breakfast.

- I sometimes brush my teeth in the evening.

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Present Simple

When to use?

• Things that are always true​.

​- The Earth goes around the Sun.

- Nurses look after patients in hospitals.​

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Present Simple

How to use?

• Positive: S + V(s/es)

• Negative: S + don't/ doesn't + V(bare-inf)

• Interrogative: Do/Does + S + V (bare-inf)?

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Present Continuous

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Present Continuous

When to use?

• Things that happen at the moment of speaking:

​- I always have breakfast.

- I sometimes brush my teeth in the evening.

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Present Continuous

When to use?

• Things that one is in the middle of doing:​

- I'm reading a really good book right now. (He's in a phone call with a friend and isn't reading the book at all, but he's in the middle of doing it.)

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- I'm learning English​. (You're at the cafe' with a bunch of friends and not learning any English, but again, you are in the process of learning the language.)

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Present Continuous

How to use?

• Positive: S + am/is/are + Ving

• Negative: S + am not/ isn't/ aren't + Ving

• Interrogative: Am/Is/Are + S + Ving?

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Comparison

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• I am living with my parents. I'm gonna move out when I'm married.

• You aren't lazy. You work hard all the time.

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Present Continuous

• I live in Hanoi.

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• You're working hard today.​

Present Simple

Examples:

1. We ................. (usually/ grow) vegetables in our garden, but this year .............. (we/not/ grow) any.​

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Examples:

2. Can we stop walking soon? .................... (I/start) to feel tired.​

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Examples:

3. A. Can you drive?

   B. ................... (I/learn). My father ................... (teach) me.​

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Examples:

4. My parents ....................... (live) in Manchester. They were born there and ​have never lived anywhere else. Where ................ (your parents/ live)?

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5. Sonia .............. (look) for a place to live. .......................... (she/stay) with her sister until she finds somewhere.​

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Present Continuous

When to use?

• Things that happen at the moment of speaking:

​- I always have breakfast.

- I sometimes brush my teeth in the evening.

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