PRESENT INDEFINITE TENSE

Today's lesson
PRESENT INDEFINITE TENSE

👉Present indefinite tense is used to express habitual action.
👉to express a fact which is always true.
👉to express a fact which is true for a long time.

✔ Example:
▫He reaches the office in time.
▫My watch keeps correct time.

➡STRUCTURE...

👉 [ verb] + s/ es in third person
If subject is third person singular.

Example:
✔ she goes to school.
✔He works in a office.

👉The verb is used in its original form.
▫if sub is 1st or 2nd person singular.
▫if sub is 1st or 2nd person plural
▫if sub is third person plural.

EXAMPLE:
✔you play Hockey
✔ we learn our lesson.

Simple present :
👉 sub + verb 1st form ( s/es ) + object.

✔Negative
👉 sub + do/ does + not + verb 1st form+ object

✔Interrogative
👉Do/does + sub + verb 1st form +object +?

✔✔PRESENT INDEFINITE
( passive voice)
👉 Object + helping verb ( is , am , are) + verb 3rdform + by + subject.

COMMON MISTAKE ❌

I working in London

👉correct Version

✔I work in London

👉 why??

✔ The ➡ing form is not used in the simple present.

✔ COMMON MISTAKE #2

👉 HE work in London

✔ correct version
👉 He works in London

✔why??

👉 The third person he ,she ,it adds the letter S.

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