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Present Simple: Auxiliary Affirmative Form

The present simple tense is used to express general truths or facts and talk about habits or routines, often accompanied by adverbs of frequency. The affirmative form uses the subject + verb + complement. For the third person singular, verbs ending in consonant + y change the y to i and add -es. The negative form uses the auxiliary 'do/does' + not. The interrogative form places the auxiliary 'do/does' before the subject. Short answers use the corresponding auxiliary 'do/does'.

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Present Simple: Auxiliary Affirmative Form

The present simple tense is used to express general truths or facts and talk about habits or routines, often accompanied by adverbs of frequency. The affirmative form uses the subject + verb + complement. For the third person singular, verbs ending in consonant + y change the y to i and add -es. The negative form uses the auxiliary 'do/does' + not. The interrogative form places the auxiliary 'do/does' before the subject. Short answers use the corresponding auxiliary 'do/does'.

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Present Simple

This tense is used to express general truths or facts.


We also use the present simple to talk about habits or routines. In this case, they are usually
accompanied adverbs of frequency.

Auxiliary: Do/Does

Affirmative form: Subject + verb + complement

*3 persons: We must bear in mind that the 3rd person singular (he, she, it) ends in "s And
add ES when i finished in: sh, ch, x, s, o, z.
When you are carrying a Y before a consonant is changes the Y by I and added ES

Example:
She wash the cars--------------> She washes the cars

He study French ----------------> He studies French.

She play tennis -----------------> she plays tennis

Negative form : To form the negative we need the auxiliary 'do'


*EXAMPLE: they dont work in an office.

To form the negative third-person, having to add the 's' what use is the auxiliary 'does not'

*EXAMPLE: He doesnt work in an office.

INTERROGATIVE: For the interrogative form we need to add the auxiliary and the subject, that
is to say, we add the auxiliary 'do' or does and the subject.

*EXAMPLE: *Do they work in an office?


* Does he work in an office?

Short answers: to give short answers we must use the corresponding auxiliary.
*Do they work in an office?

-Yes, they do / No, they dont

*Does he work in an office?

-Yes, he does / No, he doesnt


PAST SIMPLE

The structure of the simple past (Past Simple Tense) in English is:

subject+ verb with completion-ed (past)

Construction of the past


As a rule to form the past in English add ed

EXAMPLE:

Work------------worked

*NEGATION:

The negation in the simple past is more simple affirmation:

Structure: Subject + did + verb in infinitive

EXAMPLE:

*I did not sing


yo no cant

*he did not sing


l no cant

*QUESTION:

To construct the interrogation do uses the auxiliary verb in past (did):

Structure of the interrogation: Did + subject + verb to be conjugated?

EXAMPLE:

* did I sing?

* did you sing?

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