PRESENT SIMPLE TENSE - Part 1 - Where to Use Simple Present - Basic English Grammar
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Transcript:
Do you know where to use the present simple tense
and how to use it correctly? In this lesson, I’m going
to teach you the four main uses of this tense, and how
to avoid common mistakes that many people make with it.
So let’s start.
Welcome to my series of lessons on the tenses.
Before we start, as always, if you have any questions
at all, just ask me in the comments section below,
and I will talk to you there.
OK, in this lesson, I will teach you the four main uses
of the present simple tense - that is, to talk about
habits and routines, permanent situations, facts
about the world, and finally, the very important -
talking about states with state verbs. And there’s
a quiz at the end to check your understanding.
Alright well first - what is the present simple tense?
Well, quite simply, it’s the most basic tense in English
and it’s the first tense that you will learn in any
English course that you take. It’s very easy:
you just take a subject and you add a verb. A subject
is a word like I - You - We - They - He - She - It -
or a name like Mike or Emma. Let’s take ‘I’ for now.
And let’s add a verb - say ‘drink.’ Let’s complete this
sentence so it sounds meaningful - “I drink tea every
morning.” And there you have the present simple tense.
Now, what does that sentence mean? Well, when I say
“I drink tea every morning” you know that I do the
action regularly. Now you see a timeline on the screen.
Let’s say this side is the past, over on that side is
the future, and in the middle is right now. So you know
that I drink tea on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and so on. You can see that
it repeats. So this is a habit.
And this sentence shows us the first use of the present
simple tense - that is to talk about habits and routines,
things that we do regularly or repeatedly.
Now it would be wrong to say “I’m drinking tea every
morning” - because this is a habit, and for habits you
must use the present simple tense.
Alright, here are some more examples: “Mike visits his
parents on weekends.” Again, this is something that
Mike does regularly - every weekend. In our next example,
“Emma usually has dinner at eight thirty.” Meaning that
it’s part of her routine to eat dinner at eight thirty
every day. In both of these sentences, you should
NOT use the continuous form - remember that.
OK, I want you to notice one other thing in these examples.
You can see how frequently or how often the action happens
- every day, on weekends etc. When we talk about habits
or routines, we normally use these kinds of expressions.
The word ‘every’, for example, is very common - in phrases
like every morning, afternoon, every day, week, month etc.
I said “I drink tea every morning.” Another example is
“They go to Mexico on vacation every year.” You can also
use prepositions like ‘on’ or ‘in’. As in
“Mike visits his parents on weekends.” or
“Dennis goes fishing on Fridays.” And then there are
expressions like once a week, three times a year etc.
For example, “We visit the dentist twice a year for
a checkup.”
Apart from these expressions, we also use what are called
‘frequency adverbs’. If you remember, one of our examples
was “Emma usually has dinner at eight thirty.”
The word ‘usually’ is a frequency adverb.
There are many others like this -
if you do something all the time, that is one hundred
percent of the time, then you can use ‘always’.
For example, “Meena always walks to work.”
That means she never takes the bus or she never drives
to work. But hey, there’s another frequency adverb there
- ‘never’. And that means that something happens zero
percent of the time. It does not happen at all.
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Learn English Lab no.8 was not correct due to eats out please share more words alike.
Hie Anas, we say I/You/We/They eat, but He/She/It eats. I will explain this more in my next lesson :)
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Sir, like simple present tense, can u please make a video on simple past tense?
Can you create separate videos for other tenses as well? Thank you
Thanks for Explanation about PRESENT SIMPLE.
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Dear Ganesh, I have gone through Parts of speech lessons before and found useful. Today, i have gone through tenses and these are wonderful. Great work by you. Thanks for educating many people like me.
That's great to hear, Raja. Thank you for the kind words :)
Sir I have a query. You mentioned "feel" as a state verb which means we shouldn't add "-ing" form to that verb but in the sentence for instance " am feeling better now" is correct I suppose. Please list the state verbs which can used as continuous tense.
Good question, Shiva. In a sentence like "I'm feeling better now", we're indicating a change - i.e. I wasn't feeling well before but I am now. This is a special use of the present continuous tense which is why it's OK to say that.
Sir sorry if u feel it as a simple question what is the difference between action verbs and tenses
good
what is v1, v2 form give explanation.
This is present tense. Feeling better is present continous tense. He mentioned about using states in present tense only. When in present form you cant add -ing. That is the crux of it.
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Could you please make a lesson on the differences between each and every, few and a few, little and a little and so on.
Which actions are in the present progressive?
a) Action happening at the moment of speaking.
b) Results of an action in the past is important in the present.
c) Things in general.
d) You have already decided and arranged to do sth.
e) Repeated actions.
I need help whith this... i have a test after Christmas holiday "..."
PLZ
Correct answer is:
a) action happening at the moment of speaking
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great work.......could you please upload a video on clauses and its types along with its identification in the context and also a lecture series on verbs defining its different forms.
Hi Shivam, have you seen my lesson on verbs: goo.gl/hQSUL5
I will be making more detailed lessons on clauses in the near future :)
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which tense is the sentence "who's coming to the movies with me tomorrow?'' using?
Future
Future tense
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I have a confusion about where to use 's' in Simple Present Tense. Ex- He 'plays' football or He 'play' football ?
Hi Sudhanshu, add 's' for 'He', 'She', 'It' and any singular noun. Ex: "He plays", "She plays", "It plays", "Ram plays", "The child plays" etc. :)
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Hi, and thanks for another great lesson. I got all the answers correct, thanks to you, but i'm a little confused about the state verb "Hate" if my feeling is to hate someone in this very moment, can i say, "I'm hating you right now" or is it wrong? 😕 Thank you so much, i will surely keep on watching your fantastic videos! 😊
Hi Rosa, great job with the exercise! You could use "I'm hating you right now" in a humorous sense but this would be very informal use. It is certainly not standard English. I would prefer to say "I hate you right now." This is because it's very, very rare to see words like love and hate used in -ing form. That's why McDonald's uses "I'm lovin' it" - because it catches people's attention by sounding a little off :)
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hi..nice lesson..I got a doubt in the last sentence. .
what is the meaning of huge?
what means huge?
which one of these two is correct?
But sir, now everybody even natives are using Im hating it or im loving it???
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Great job, Salah-eddine! I'm glad to hear you found the lesson helpful. Let me suggest a couple of corrections - (1) "I GOT all 10 exercises correct." (2) best wishes (spelled with 'sh' not 'ch') :)
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Superb explanation, LEL! :)
I got all 10 correct, but only 9 Uses correct (I forgot the 'temporary' one).
I really needed to learn all the tenses.. present, present continuous, past and all. So, will watch Part 2 tomorrow and will continue to finishing the Tenses course. I like all ur vdos and plan to watch'em all. Thank you so much, you're brilliant! Keep it up and GBU :)
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