Simple present - Mind Map

Simple present

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Simple present

Affirmative

Subject + verb+object 3rd person sing: Subject+ verb(e) s

You like coffee.

She likes coffee.

He is a student.

Negative

Subject+ do not/ don't+ verb+ object
3rd person sing: subject+does not/ doesn't
+ verb + object

you don't like coffee.
She doesn't like coffe.

She doesn't sleep.

Interrogative

Do + subject+verb+object?
3rd person singular: Does+ subject+verb+object?

Do you like coffee?

Does she work for your uncle?

Use

Things That don't change
Permanet situation
Habitual or repeated
actions.
To say how often
we do things facts.

He, she, it add-(e) s
Key words
every day
once a month
Adverbs of frequency
often sometimes
usually never

Example with Verb to Sing

Afirmative

I sing a song.
He singss a song.

Negative

I don't sing.
He doesn't sing.

Do I sing?
Does he sing?

Spelling rules

Nouns, verb and adjectives can have
the following endings:

noun+s/es(plural) books
verb+s+es(after he/she/it)
works- washes
Verb+ing working
adjective+er(comparative)
cheaper
adjective +est(superlative)
cheapest
adjective+ly(adverb)
brigthtly

Word ending in-y(baby,carry,easy etc)

If word ends in a consonat + y
(-by/-ry/-sy/- vy etc)
y changes to ie before the
ending-s:
baby/ babies

Y changes to i before the
ending- ed:
hurri/ hurried

Y changes to i before the endings
-er and -est:
easy/ easier/ easiest.

Y changes to i before the
ending- ly:
heavy/heavily

Doubling consonants

Sometimes a word ends in
vowel+ consonant: for Example
stop, plan, rub, big, wet, thin

Before the endings-ing/-ed/-er/
-est, we double the consonant al the end.
So p/ pp, n/nn etc.
For example:
stop/stopping/stoppend
rub/rubbing/rubbed
thin/thinner/thinnest

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