Simple Present Tense

It is used to tell the daily activities or habitual actions. Besides, it also can be used to tell the general fact. We can find the use of simple present tense in several text genre, such as descriptive, explanation, report and exposition.

In Simple Present tense sentences, we may find the use of adverb of frequency, such as always, often, usually, seldom, rarely, etc. The adverb of time which is often used in the simple present tense sentences is ‘every’.

We can find two different sentences in the simple present tense. They are:

Nominal Sentence

This sentence employs ‘Be’ (is, am, are) as the predicate. It means that we don’t use any verb in this sentence. In the other words, we don’t find any activity in nominal sentences.

Formula: Subject + is/am/are + Noun/adjective

Example:

• I am a teacher.
• I am sad.
• He is happy
• Andy is very nice.
• They are clever students.
• Rooney and Berbatov are football players.

Verbal Sentence:

This Sentence uses ‘verb’ as the predicate.

Formula:

For the plural subject and subject ' I '= S + V1

You

We          +       Verb 1

They

I

Example:

• They sing a song.
• Joko and Hendry clean the room.
• We play soccer.
• I like noodle.

For the Singular Subject: S + V1 + suffix s/es

• He
• She     +     Verb I + suffix s/es
• It

Example:

He cleans his room.

Danny likes apple.

The car runs fast.

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