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    The Present Simple

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    The present simple tense is used to describe: 1) Habitual or repeated actions, such as "I always wake up at 7 o'clock"; 2) Scientific truths and facts, like "two plus two equals four"; and 3) Statements about things that are generally true, such as "you are students". The past simple tense describes completed actions and states that happened in the past, formed by adding "-ed" to regular verbs or "-d" to verbs ending in "e". We use the past simple tense with time expressions like "yesterday" and when describing a series of completed past actions, or when talking about an interrupted past action using the past continuous tense

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    The present simple tense is used to describe: 1) Habitual or repeated actions, such as "I always wake up at 7 o'clock"; 2) Scientific truths and facts, like "two plus two equals four"; and 3) Statements about things that are generally true, such as "you are students". The past simple tense describes completed actions and states that happened in the past, formed by adding "-ed" to regular verbs or "-d" to verbs ending in "e". We use the past simple tense with time expressions like "yesterday" and when describing a series of completed past actions, or when talking about an interrupted past action using the past continuous tense

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    The present simple tense is used to describe: 1) Habitual or repeated actions, such as "I always wake up at 7 o'clock"; 2) Scientific truths and facts, like "two plus two equals four"; and 3) Statements about things that are generally true, such as "you are students". The past simple tense describes completed actions and states that happened in the past, formed by adding "-ed" to regular verbs or "-d" to verbs ending in "e". We use the past simple tense with time expressions like "yesterday" and when describing a series of completed past actions, or when talking about an interrupted past action using the past continuous tense

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    The present simple:

    We use the present simple to speak about:

     Habitual actions (we use adverbs: sometimes, always, usually…).


    Ex: I always wake up at 7 o ‘clock.
     Something real. Ex: you are students.
     Scientific truth. Ex: two plus two equals four.
     Make a declaration. Ex: I wish you happy life.
     Give instructions. Ex: go straight ahead you find university.
    Form:
    - We add (s) to most verbs. Ex: to live lives / to work works / to eat eats.
    - We add (es) to verbs ends in: o, s, ss, sh, ch, x. Ex: to wash washes /to kiss kisses
    /to go goes / to mix mixes.
    - If the verb ends in a consonant +y, we change “y” to “ie” then we add “s”
    Ex: to study studies
    - If the verb ends in a vowel +y, we add (s) Ex: to obey obeys / to say says.

    Affirmative Negative Interrogative


    Subject + verb (s, es ,ies) Subject +do/does not Do/ does + subject +verb
    +…. (n’t) +verb (steam) +….. (steam) + ……?
    Ex: she works in a Ex: I do not drink milk. Ex: Do you finish your
    factory. Ex: he doesn’t’ eat homework?
    chocolate.

    The past simple:

     We use the past simple to talk or write about a completed event or state in the past.
    Ex: my father died last year. Ex: yesterday, I was absent.
     We use at simple with one completed action followed by another completed action.
    Ex: when farid left middle school, he trained as carpenter. He got a diploma after two
    years and started a small business.
     We use the past simple with the past continuous when we are talking about an action
    and another action interrupted it.

    Ex: my mother was cooking when the telephone rang.(the second verb interupped the first
    action)
    Form:
     We form the past simple by adding “ed” to regular verbs or “d” to verbs that ends in
    “e”

    Ex: to follow followed / to miss missed / to practice practiced

     If the verb ends in a consonant +y, we change the “y” into “ie” then we add “d”

    Ex: to study studied

    Affirmative Negative Interrogative


    -Subject + verb+ ed/d+… -Subject + did not (didn’t) -Did +subject +verb (steam)
    -Subject +Was / were … +verb (steam) +…… +……?
    Ex: I finished the work. Ex: the girl didn’t see the Ex: Did the judges decide
    car. fairly in your opinion?
    -Subject+Was not (wasn’t)/ -Was / were +subject+……?
    were not (weren’t) +……. Ex: Was she in a good
    Ex: he wasn’t happy. mood?

    To To do to have

    I was I did I had

    You were you did you had

    She/ he / it was she / he / it did she /he / it had

    You / they / we were you/ they / we did you / they / we had

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