Simple

present
-es after –s/ -sh/ -ch:
↪ Pass￫ passes
↪ Finish￫ finishes
↪ watch￫ watches
→They’re looking at their books.
→They read a lot. -y ￫ -ies

→He’s eating an ice cream cone. ↪ Study￫ studies

→He likes ice cream. ↪ Try￫ tries

They read/ he likes / I work etc. = the Also: Do￫ does

simple present:
Go ￫ goes
I/ we/ you He/she/it
/they We use the simple present for things that
Read Reads are true in general, or for things that
Like Likes happen
Work Works sometimes or all the time:
Live Lives →I like big cities.
Watch Watches →Your English is good. You speak
Do Does very well.
Have Has →Tim works very hard. He starts at
Remember: 7:30 and finishes at 8:00 at night.
→The earth goes around the sun.
He Works/ she lives /it rains etc. →We do a lot of different things in our
free time.
→I work in an office. My brother →It costs a lot of money to build a
works in a bank. (not My brother work) hospital.
→Lucy lives in Houston. Her parents
live in Chicago. Always/never/often/usually/sometimes
→It rains a lot in the winter. + simple present
→Sue always gets to work early. (not
I have ￫ He/she/it has: Sue gets always)
John has lunch at home every day. →I never eat breakfast. (not I eat never)
→We often sleep late on weekends. →You don’t work very hard.
→Mark usually plays tennis on →We don’t watch television very
Sundays. often.
→I sometimes walk to work, but not →The weather is usually nice. It doesn’t
very often. rain very often.
→Gary and Nicole don’t know many
people.

Simple present 2 Remember:

I/ we/ you /they don't...
He/she/it doesn't
→I don’t like football.
→He doesn’t like football.
→I don’t like Fred, and Fred doesn’t
like me. (not Fred don’t like)
→My car doesn’t use much gas. (not
My car don’t use)
→Sometimes he is late, but it doesn’t
happen very often.
The simple present in negative form is
don’t/doesn’t + verb: We use don’t/d oesn’t + base form
(don’t like / doesn’t speak / doesn’t do,
↪Affirmative form etc.):
I Work → I don’t like to wash the car. I don’t
We Like do it very often.
You Do → Sarah speaks Spanish, but she
They Have doesn’t speak Italian. (not doesn’t
He Works speaks)
She Likes →Bill doesn’t do his job very well, (not
It Does Bill doesn’t his job)
Has → Paula doesn’t usually have breakfast,
(not doesn’t . . . has)
↪Negative form
I don’t Work
We (do not) Like
You Do
They Have
He Doesn’t
She (does not)
It
→I drink coffee, but I don’t drink tea.
→Sue drinks tea, but she doesn’t drink
coffee.
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Simple present 3 Questions with Always/usually/ever:

What do you do? = What’s your job?

→ “What do you do?” “I work in a
bank.”
Remember:
Do I/ we/ you /they
We use do/does in simple present Does He/she/it
questions: →Do they like music?
→Does he like music?
↪Affirmative form
I work
Short answers
We like ↪Affirmative form
You do
They have Yes, I/ we/ you /they do
He works He/she/it does
She likes
It does
has ↪Negative form

↪Interrogative form No, I/ we/ you /they don’t

He/she/it doesn’t
Do I Work? → “Do you play tennis?” “No, I don’t.”
We Like? → “Do your parents speak English?”
You Do? “Yes, →they do .”
They Have? → “Does Gary work hard?” “Yes, he
Does He does.”
She → “Does your sister live in
it Vancouver?” “No, she doesn’t.”
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