ENGLISH FOR NHAMATANDA - 107.

3 FM1 (May 26, 2016)

TOPIC: PRESENT SIMPLE TENSE

We use the PRESENT SIMPLE to talk about habits or things that we do regularly. In other words, we use
the Present Simple to express habits, general truths and repeated actions in the present.
Example: I live in Lamego.
We go to school every day.
She speaks English.

The structure or rule of present simple sentences is:

Subject + verb + complement

I live in Lamego.
We go to school every day.

Do not forget that the examples that we showed before are in the POSITIVE FORM. How can we change
those sentence above to the NEGATIVE FORM?
The negative form, in the present simple, is made by adding do not = don't2 or does not = doesn't after the
subject pronouns.
Example:
Subject + don't / doesn't + verb + complement

I don't live in Lamego.

We don't go to school every day.

Remember that we use do not or don't when the subjects in the sentences are I, You, We, They whereas we
use does not or doesn't when the subjects in the sentences He, She and It.

Subject + don't / doesn't + verb + complement

He doesn't live in Lamego.

She doesn't go to school every day.

How to make QUESTIONS in the Present Simple tense?

To make QUESTIONS in the present simple, we must start with DO or DOES in the sentences.
For Example: Do you live in Lamego?
 Yes, I do.
Does he live in Lamego?
 Yes, he does.
Does she speak English?
 Yes, she does.
Note that we always use Do when the subjects are I, You, We, They and Does with He, She, It.

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doesn't and don't are the short forms.