Present Tense

• PRESENT TENSE

Present tense is used to express habits, general truths, repeated actions or unchanging situations, emotions and wishes: i smoke (habit) ; i work in london (unchanging situation) ; london is a large city (general truth).

To give instructions or directions : you walk for two hundred meters, then you turn left. To express fixed arrangement, present or future : your exam start 07.30 a.m.

Example :

1. Habitual actions : 

• Putra get up at 5 o'clock every morning
• I always do my homework after dinner

    2. General truth :

• A week has 7 days
• Water boils at 100 celcius degree

The pattern of non verbal sentence :

         (+) subject + to be + adjective/noun/adverb

         (-) subject + to be + not + adjective/noun/adverb

         (?) to be + subject + adjective/noun/adverb + ?

Example :

        (+) Indri is beautiful girl

        (-) Indri is not beautiful girl

        (?) Is Indri beautiful girl ?

Averb used :

  Always, usually, often, never, seldom, sometimes, normally, etc..

The pattern of verbal sentence :

     (+) subject + verb I (-s/-es) + object

     (-) subject + do/does + not + verb I + object

     (?) do/does + subject + verb I + object + ?

Example :

    (+) It runs very fast

    (-) It does not run very fast

    (?) Does it run very fast ?