Present simple exercises PDF worksheets

Complete short dialogues with positive, negative and questions forms:
A: How often are you ill, grandma?
B: Quite often. I ___ very healthy this year.

Present simple verb to be questions PDF exercise

Complete questions with the forms of the verb to be:
A: Where ___ Mark and Kevin? They're so late today.
B: I have no idea, to tell the truth.

Present simple yes/no questions PDF exercise (1)

Complete the conversation with do/does questions:
Ann: (your brother - like English?) ___
Sue: English is his favourite subject.

Present simple yes/no questions PDF exercise (2)

Find mistakes and correct them:
Does your parents live in a house?
Do your brother and sister eats meat?

Present simple wh questions PDF exercise (1)

Liz is taking her exam. Complete the conversation with wh- questions:
Examiner: All right, Liz. ___ ?
Liz: I live near here. Just round the corner.

Present simple wh questions PDF exercise (2)

Put jumbled words in the correct order.
Who ___ ? (you-stay-with)
Who do you stay with?

Present simple positive vs. negative PDF exercise

Complete a general knowledge quiz.
Tourists go to Africa to see the Niagara Falls. (America)
Tourists don't go to Africa to see the Niagara Falls. They go to America.

Present simple negative PDF exercise

What a good student doesn't do.
He/she ___ copy other students' homework.
Good students ___ talk to their neighbours during lessons.

Present simple third person PDF exercise (1)

Complete the story about Sam's kitten.
Every day little Samuel ___ up early in the morning. (get)
He ___ downstairs and into the backyard. (hurry)

Present simple third person PDF exercise (2)

My dear family. Complete sentences with the verbs from the list.
(love, take, cry, practise)
My sister Frances ___ guitar lessons and ___ every day.
My aunt Fiona ___ watching romantic stories and she sometimes ___ .

Present simple mixed forms PDF exercise

Complete short dialogues with verbs in brackets.
What ___ in your free time? (do)
I ___ anything. I just lie in bed get bored.

Compare:

Present simple vs. present continuous exercises PDF

Compare the present simple with the present continuous tense.

Present simple tense

Grammar rules with examples.

Present simple tense PDF Printable grammar rules to download.

Positive statement: I play, He plays
Negative statement: I do not play (I don't play), He does not play (He doesn't play)
Questions: Do you play? Does he play?
Negative questions: Do you not play? (Don't you play?) Does he not play? (Doesn't he play?)

We do not use the auxiliary verb do in wh- questions if the wh- pronoun introducing the question (who, which) is the subject of the question.
Who knows you? (who is the subject)
Which cars belong to you? (which cars is the subject)

Present simple negative Exercises, PDF worksheets and grammar rules.

Present simple questions Exercises, PDF worksheets and grammar rules.

Third person singular

We use -s ending (plays) and -es ending (goes) in the third person singular.
Peter plays tennis.
My son goes to primary school. Sarah misses her school bus too often.

In questions we use does in the third person singular + the bare infinitive (= play, not plays).
Does Peter play tennis?

Present simple third person Exercises, PDF worksheets and spelling rules.

Verb to be

The present simple of the verb 'to be' has completely different forms.

Positive: I am, you are, he - she - it is, we are, they are
Short forms: I'm, you're, he's, she's, it's, we're, they're
Negative: I am not, you are not, he - she - it is not, we are not, they are not
Short forms: I'm not, you aren't (you're not), he - she - it isn't (he's not, she's not, it's not), we aren't (we're not), they aren't (they're not)
Questions: Am I? Are you? Is he - she - it? Are we? Are they?
Negative questions: Am I not? Are you not? Is he - she - it not? Are we not? Are they not?
Short forms: Aren't you? Isn't he - she - it? Aren't we? Aren't they?

Present simple verb to be Exercises, PDF worksheets and grammar rules.

Present simple passive

The present simple passive is made with the verb to be + the past participle.
I am really surprised by your present.
The supermarket is closed now.
Italian pizzas are eaten all over the world.

Present simple passive Exercises and PDF worksheets on passive forms.

Use of the present simple

1. We use the present simple tense for repeated activities (usually with time expressions such as everyday, sometimes, ever, never).
I sometimes go to school by bike. You don't speak Greek. Do they get up early?
He often travels. She doesn't work. Does she ever help you?

2. We use it for facts that are always true.
Our planet moves round the sun. Lions eat meat.

3. With a future time expression (tomorrow, next week) we use present simple for planned future actions, for example in timetables.
The train leaves at 8.15. They return tonight.

4. The present simple in time clauses is used to express future actions or states (instead of 'will').
I'll buy a new car when I save enough money.
As soon as Matt comes back from his business trip, we'll go to the mountains.

5. Similarly, we use the present simple in if clauses to express future actions or states (in the first conditional).
I'll use your pen if you don't mind.
If Betty breaks up with Tom, she'll be free again.

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Present simple tense

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