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Simple Present Tense

The document describes the simple present tense in three sentences: The simple present tense is used to describe habitual actions, unchanging situations, general truths, instructions, and fixed schedules. It is easy to form, using the base form of the verb. For third person singular subjects (he, she, it), add -s to the base form. The simple present tense is not used to describe actions or events happening now. It provides examples of its common uses and basic sentence structures.

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Simple Present Tense

The document describes the simple present tense in three sentences: The simple present tense is used to describe habitual actions, unchanging situations, general truths, instructions, and fixed schedules. It is easy to form, using the base form of the verb. For third person singular subjects (he, she, it), add -s to the base form. The simple present tense is not used to describe actions or events happening now. It provides examples of its common uses and basic sentence structures.

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Grammar #1: SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE

Simple Present Tense digunakan untuk mendeskripsikan kebiasaan, situasi yang


tidak berubah, kebenaran umum, instruksi/arahan, dan jadwal tetap. Simple
present tense sangat mudah untuk dibentuk. Gunakan saja kata dasar dari kata kerja:
(I take, you take, we take, they take). Bentuk orang ketiga tunggal (he, she, it)
menggunakan -s di akhir kata dasar. (he takes, she takes)

Simple present TIDAK digunakan untuk menyatakan tindakan atau


kejadian yang sedang terjadi saat ini/sekarang.

Contoh:

• Untuk kebiasaan • Untuk kebenaran umum


He drinks tea at breakfast. Water freezes at zero degrees.
She only eats fish. The Earth revolves around the
They watch television every Sun.
day. Her mother is Peruvian.

• Untuk tindakan atau • Untuk instruksi atau arahan


kejadian berulang Please do not smoke here.
We catch the bus every Take the No.10 bus to Sunter
morning. Kelapa Gading.
It rains every afternoon in the
hot season. • Untuk jadwal tetap
They drive to the beach every His mother arrives tomorrow.
summer. Our holiday starts on the 26th
March.
The plane departs at 10 P.M.

to be: do:
1) am (I) I, you, they, we
2) is (he, she, it)
3) are (you, they, does:
we) he, she, it
STRUCTURE

1) Positive Sentence

Subject + Verb (tambahkan -e, -es untuk kata ganti orang ketiga) + Object +
Ket. waktu/tempat

For example:

• Mary and I (Subject) go (Verb) to cinemas (Ket. Tempat) every Friday (Ket.
Waktu).
• She eats bread at breakfast.
• My brother Peter does (Verb “do” + -es) karate three days a week.
• Mr. Dean is a baker. He has a big bakery.

2) Negative Sentence

Subject + do/does + not + Verb 1 + Object + Keterangan waktu/tempat

For example:

• My sister does not like cucumber.


• We do not live in Bandung.
• My parents are not lawyers, they work in a school.

3) Interrogative Sentences

Do/does + Subject + Verb 1 + Object + Keterangan waktu/tempat + ?

For example:

• Does Tom go to school by bus?


• Do they like swimming?
• Does Mark visit his relatives in Jakarta?

REMEMBER: Pada kalimat negative dan


interrogative, verb TIDAK ditambahkan -s atau -es,
meski pada subject he, she, it sekalipun.

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