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PDF exercises to download for free:
Present simple verb to be PDF exercise 1
Present simple questions PDF exercise 3 (dialogue)
Present simple questions PDF exercise 4 (correct mistakes)
Present simple wh questions PDF exercise 5
Wh questions PDF 6 (jumbled words)
Present simple positive vs. negative PDF 7 (knowledge quiz)
Present simple negative PDF exercise 8 (don't, doesn't)
Present simple third person PDF exercise 9 (Sam's Kitten)
Third person singular PDF 10 (My Dear Family)
Present simple PDF exercise 11 (mixed forms)
Online exercises with answers:
Present simple exercise 3 (questions)
Present simple exercise 4 (wh questions)
Present simple exercise 5 (negative)
Positive vs. negative forms 6 (knowledge quiz)
Present simple exercise 7 (third person - Sam's Kitten)
Third person singular 8 (My Dear Family)
Present simple mixed forms 9 (multiple choice test)
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Present simple tense
We mostly use the base form of the verb to make the present simple affirmative.
I work in San Francisco. You eat too much chocolate. We get up early. They live in an old house.
In the third person singular (he, she, it) we add -s to the base form.
Peter plays tennis. My sister tries to change her job. Our son goes to primary school.
We use do or does to make questions in the present simple.
Do you know Greg? Does he go to the same school?
Negative questions normally express a surprise.
Does he not work? Doesn't he work?
If the wh- pronoun introducing the question (who, which) is the subject of the question, we do not use the auxiliary verb do.
Who knows you? Which cars belong to you?
The negative forms are made with do not (don't) or does not (doesn't).
I do not (don't) know. Marion does not (doesn't) want to study.
The verb to be has completely different forms:
I am, you are, he/she/it is, we are, they are.
We add not after the verb to be to make negatives.
I am not, you are not, it is not.
Questions are made in a simple way. We just change the word order of a statement.
Am I? Are you? Is he?
In spoken English, however, we normally use short forms.
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