Simole present tense

SUBJECT + AUXILIARY VERB + MAIN VERB
                                DO                       BASE


There are three important exceptions:

1. For positive sentences, we do not normally use the auxiliary.
2. For the 3rd person singular (he, she, it), we add s to the main verb or es to the auxiliary.
3. For the verb to be, we do not use an auxiliary, even for questions and negatives.

We use the simple present tense when:

• the action is general.
• the action happens all the time, or habitually, in the past, present and future.
• the action is not only happening now.
• the statement is always true.

For example;

I live in New York.

The Moon goes round the Earth.

John drives a taxi.

He does not drive a bus.