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Simple Present Tense

We use the simple present tense to talk about regular or habitual actions. It describes facts or things that always happen.

With the pronouns I/you/we/they, regular verbs use the base form in the simple present tense. For example, "I play basketball," or, "We love watching movies."

With the pronouns he/she/it, most regular verbs use the base form with an –s ending, as in, "Devan hates the holidays." When the verb ends with -ch, -sh or –ss, add –es, as in "She watches a lot of TV," or, "He misses his mom."

And remember, you can use "always" in front of a simple present verb to show that something happens all the time.

Simple Present Tense Grammar Quiz

  1. My dog the treats in your pocket.

  2. She in late on the weekend.

  3. He his old job at the warehouse.

  4. The boy the dishes after dinner.

  5. I always basketball at the park when it's nice outside.

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saad sam

saad sam

Jordan

i alwayes speak english

03:57 AM Aug 02 2012 |

Novel Montaño

Venezuela

I always swimming every friday it is very good for the healthy.

10:38 PM Jul 10 2012 |

 julito

julito

Argentina

and the worst part is that she believed  him.    lol

04:42 PM Jan 28 2012 |

hamidgoodboy

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

An example of present tense narration in a “Blonde Joke”


A blonde woman is driving her car home one night when she suddenly finds herself in the middle of a really bad hail storm. The hail stones are as big as golf balls and her car gets dented up really bad. The next day she takes it in to a repair shop to have the dents looked at.


The repair guy, noticing that she is blonde and quite dingy (not too smart) when she speaks, decides to have some fun and tells her to blow into the tail pipe of the car really hard when she gets home, and that doing this will cause all of the dents to pop out.


Laughing

04:39 PM Jan 28 2012 |

shhhab khan

India

its easy and more understandable….......

03:30 PM Jan 28 2012 |

rana younis

Israel

its easy and tnx


03:47 PM Jan 20 2012 |

salman shaikh

Pakistan

I UNDERSTAND THE LESSON


06:27 PM Jan 07 2012 |

wby918

China

I always thick it is possible to improve my poor enlish skill via hard word. How about you?

03:49 AM Dec 14 2011 |

chloe001

United States

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10:18 AM Nov 24 2011 |

abdul rouf

Pakistan

i goes to school from kashmeri mohalla matli and i donot go to school from kachi mohalla than i meet my friend they give me suggetion thet this school is very dusties becouse you donot learn him.  

04:36 AM Nov 10 2011 |