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Present Simple Tense
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 451.
VERB TENSES
All grammar tenses are explained with the help of tables in which the following symbols are used:
| Symbol
| Meaning
| | +
| Affirmative sentence
| | ?
| Interrogative sentence
| | –
| Negative sentence
| | S
| Subject
| | P
| Predicate
| | À
| Adverbial modifier of time
| | ♣
| Adverbial modifier of place or Object
| | + S P3s ♣ À
? do/does S P ♣À?
– S do/does not P ♣ À
| | Present Simple Tense is used:
| | | rules
| examples
| | 1.
| to express a regular or constant action in the present
| As a manager he comes to office at eight o'clock in the morning.
| | 2.
| to express an action permanently characterising the subject in the present
| He makes presentations very well.
| | 3.
| to express an action or state which does not refer to any particular time
| Great managers develop strengths, not weaknesses in themselves and their people.
| | 4.
| to express an action going on at the time of speaking with the verbs which are not used in continuous (to know, to feel, to hate, to love, to understand, to like, to hope, to forget, to belong, to remain, to imagine, to concern, to involve, to require, to remember, to consist of, to depend on, to prefer, to mean, to equal, to own, to contain, to owe, to suppose, to cost, to possess)
| I see the manager understands what I am talking about.
| | 5.
| to express a chain of actions in the past for describing them as if they were taking place before the listener's eyes
| So, one day he comes, analyzes everything and begins to plan our work.
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| to be
| to have
| other verbs
| | I
| am
| have
| correct/manage
| | you
| are
| have
| correct/manage
| | he, she, it
| is
| has
| corrects/manages
| | we
| are
| have
| correct/manage
| | you
| are
| have
| correct/manage
| | they
| are
| have
| correct/manage
| | The adverbs used with Present Simple and %
of frequency they show
| | 100 %
| always
| | 90 %
| usually/normally
| | 75 %
| often/frequently
| | 50 %
| sometimes/occasionally
| | 25 %
| rarely/seldom
| | 10 %
| hardly ever
| | 0 %
| never
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