The Simple Present Tense Hakkında Bilgi
The simple present Tense
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The simple present tense
Study the examples.
The sun rises in the east (1)
John always eyeles to school. (2)
I write poems, but I don’t write plays (3)
I lıke Turkish folk music, but I dislike / hate pop music. (4)
The Blue Train to Ankara leaves the station at five (5)
The first lesson begins at 8:30 a.m. (6)
Does the earth revolve around the sun ? (7)
How often do you go to the cinema ? (8)
We use the simple present tense to express natural facts (1),
repaated actions together with adverbs of frequency (2),
our hobbies and habits at present (3),
perception (4) and planned future actions (5,6).
When the subject is the third person singular, we use does before the subject to make a question (7).
If the subject is I, you, we or a plural noun, we use do before the subject to form a question. (8)
The simple present Tense
NOTICE : When the subject is the third person singular (he, she, ıt, Ayşe, Hasan, the moon, etc.), we add -s or -es to the verb (1,2,5,6)
Exercise 1 : Put the words into the correct order to make meaningful sentences.
1. sometimes / a book / borrow / the library.
2. tea / for / usually / drink / they / breakfast.
3. number / don’t / new / her / know / telephone / I.
4. her / she / the cinema / often / with / goes / friends / to.
5. we / Sundays / don’t / why / school / go / to / on ?
6. dither nner / coffee / usually / a cup / father / after / drinks / my / of.
7. a worker / eight / a day / works / hours.
8. take / once / a bath / I / a week.
9. least / every / he / at / one / newspaper / daily / morning / reads.
10. eat / rarely / they / at a restaurant /lunch.
11. my / comes / father / home / in the evening / around / seven.
12. in these fields / grow / cotton / satisfactorily / doesn’t.
13. after / I / homework / do / my / usually / dinner.
14. in / farmers / cows / my hometown / raise / most.
15. our / visit / we / very / grandparents / often.
16. always / father / us / informs / his / about / business.
17. in general / towards / nurse / patients / kindly / behave / not / this / does.
18. house / we / every / paint / our / years / three.
19. this / too / electricity / machine / much / uses.
20. fish / restaurant / serves / chicken / this / and.
21. my / go / school / brother / doesn’t / to.
The simple present Tense
Exercise 2. Make sentences in the simple present tense, paying attention to the marks at the end of words of groups.
1. they / go / to bed early every day (+)
2. she / have / a big breakfast (+) Exercise
3. you / have / tea or milk for breakfast (?) .
4. your father / like / white coffe or black coffee (?)
5. my father / go / to work on foot (+)
6. my sister / like / horror films (-)
7. my mother / always / do / all the housework by herself (+)
8. my father / smoke (-)
9. your father smoke (?)
10. you / do / your homework at school or at home (?)
11. I / watch all the television programmes in the evening (-)
12. Susan / put sugar in her tea (-)
13. Rose / work / as a secretary (+)
14. we / eat / three times a day (+)
15. nobody / like / liars (+)
3. Make questions for the underlined words.
1. a) Melek goes to school every day to study, but she doesn’t go to the cinema.
2. a) Erol and Erdal go to work together in their car in the morning.
3. a) Figen likes sweet things very much, but she doesn’t like anything sour.
4. a) The Carters always travel by train because it is cheaper and safer.
5. a) My mother plays the piano in her spare time
6. Everbody feels the stress and strain of modern life
7. Tom always helps his father over the weekend.
8. My parents work for a tourist agency
