EXPLORING GRAMMAR

SIMPLE PRESENT
AFFIRMATIVE
NEGATIVE
INTERROGATIVE
TO TALK ABOUT HABITS
 SIMPLE PRESENT: FORM

I play
You play
He plays
She plays
It plays
We play
You play
They play
 SIMPLE PRESENT: Exceptions
• Verb Have Has
• Verb Go Goes
• Verb Do Does

• Verbs ending in SS-SH-CH-X-Z + ES

Kiss kisses
Wash washes
Watch watches
Fix fixes
Buzz buzzes
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• Study Studies
Carry carries
 Questions Simple Present Tense
DO I, You, We, They.
DOES He, she, it.

She likes sports.

Does she like sports?

 Negative Form of Simple Present
Tense
Do Not Don’t
(formal) (informal)
(I, you, we, they)

- I do not like jazz.

- I don’t like swing.
- They don’t like jazz.
- They do not like swing.
 Negative form of Simple Present Tense

Does not Doesn’t

(he, she, it)

- My mom doesn’t like rap.

- She does not like rap.

- My dad does not like rock.

- My dad doesn’t like rock.