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SIMPLE
PRESENT TENSE
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The
simple present tense is often used with adverbs or adverb phrases. These
adverbs are placed directly before
the verb in a sentence:
always,
never,
often,
rarely,
usually Examples:
Penéloppe Cruz never eats meat.
Kate Winslet usually wears a size 11 shoe. And
the following adverbs are placed either at the beginning or at the end
of a sentence: Sometimes,
every day,
every week,
every year,
occasionally Examples:
Every day Penéloppe Cruz eats meatless meal.
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in an affirmative sentence , by adding S for the 3rd person singular (he, Example:
He dislikes interminable movies
like "Eyes Wide Shut". -
in a negative sentence, by adding DON'T
or DOESN’T after the
subject. Examples:
You don’t enjoy horror
movie.
He doesn’t watch
movie on TV.
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in an interrogative statement, we use DO or DOES after the
subject. Examples:
Do you see filmmaking as an
art?
Does
she see filmmaking as an art?
Examples:
Sean Penn keeps a mobile home
permanently parked on the front
lawn
of his multimillion-dollar Malibu home.
Verbs
ending in ss, sh, ch, th, x and
o add ES, instead of S alone,
to form the third person singular. Examples:
Annabella Sciorra bathes four
times every day.
Tom
Cruise kisses Nicole Kidman in
"Eyes Wide Shut".
He goes to his drama
lesson. Verbs
ending in "
y " following a vowel
obey the usual rule. Example:
Bruce Willis plays in The
Story of Us. |
Source
References:
Grammar
Notes from Micheline Perreault
Teen
Movieline Magasine, April 2000.
Thomson A.J. and Martinet A.V.
A Practical English Grammar,
3rd edition,
Oxford University Press, pp144-146.