Simple Present Tense

Simple Present Tense :


This Tense is used to talk / write / speak / feel about….

1. habitual activities

I usually wake up at 6 in the morning.
He always drinks a cup of milk in the evening.



2. normal activities and routine activities

He goes for walk in the morning.
They play football in the afternoon.



3. professional activities

A baker bakes bread.
A cobbler mends shoes.



4. natural and inherent qualities

The sun gives as light and heat.
My house faces the east.



5. science theories and principles

Water freezes at zero degree centigrade.
Light travels faster than sound.



6. universal truths

The sun rises in the east.
The earth moves round the sun.



7. proverbs

A bad carpenter quarrels with his tools.
One swallow doesn't make a summer



8. future plans

I go to America next year.
He leaves for Delhi tomorrow.



9. instantaneous present

Here comes our hero.
Ram heads the ball and puts it into the net.



10. historical events

The first World War ends.
Germany invades Poland.



11. Miscellaneous

The bottle contains poison.
This committee consist of five members.
He appears in this case on behalf of me.
The Box contains three pencils and two pens.
They deserve still a better treatment.
What matters to you need not matters to me.
This car resembles mine.
She seems to be worried.



Few more sentences in this tense form.

I eat a mango.
I read the newspaper.
1 send my application.
I go to Cambridge today. 1 do exercise.
I sing a song.

He gets up at 6 o'clock every morning.
He starts at 8.30.
He brings a letter.
He catches a ball.
He comes with his friends.

She cries for a long time.
She speaks four languages.
She wears new dress.
She thinks about her daughter.
She flies from Chennai to London.

It enters into the hole.
It fights with a dog.
It waits for its chance.
It gives us milk.
It grows in Britain.

We go to school.
We elect a Chairman.
We drink some coffee.
We come to Chennai.
We like big cities.

You live in London.
You walk some times.
You do your duty.
You go to the office.
You go home once in a week.

They play cricket.
They work very hard.
They build a bungalow.
They beat a boy.
They start work.

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