Zusammenfassung der Ressource
PRESENT SIMPLE AND
PRESENT CONTINUOUS
- Present Simple
- Use
- Habitual actions
- Ex: I usually work until 2:00 p.m
- General o permanent situations
- Ex: My family lives far away
- Facts
- Ex: The Earth is round
- Structure
- Negative Sentences
- Subject + Auxiliar Verb (do / does) + NOT + Verb
- Ex: Sara doesn't work on Sunday
- Ex: They don't have a big house
- Affirmative Sentences
- Subject + VERB
- I / you / we / they
- Ex: work (simple form of VERB)
- He / she / it
- Ex: workS (VERB+s)
- Interrogative Sentences
- Auxiliar Verb (do / does) + Subject + Verb
- Do you talk?
- Does he eat?
- Rules
- Most verbs take -s in third person singular
- Ex: dance - dances, read - reads
- Verbs ending in -ss, -sh, -ch, -x take -es
- Ex: kiss - kisses, wash - washes
- Verbs ending in a consonant + y, drop the y and takes -ies
- Ex: study - studies
- Verbs ending in a vowel + y, take -s
- play -plays, enjoy - enjoys
- Present Continuous
- Use
- A temporary situation
- Ex: Lisa is living with friends until she finds an apartment
- Something that is happening NOW
- Ex: He is playing soccer
- Structure
- Negative Sentences
- For this tense, simply ADD the word NOT after the verbe BE
- Ex: They are NOT working today
- Affirmative Sentences
- I am + VERB -ing
- Ex: I am cleaning my house this week
- He / she / it + VERB -ing
- Ex: Everyone is studying hard
- You / we / they + VERB -ing
- They are celebrating their 40th anniversary today
- Interrogative Sentences
- BE + Subject + Verb+ing
- Am I going?
- Are you eating?