PRESENT SIMPLE

EL "SIMPLE PRESENT" SE UTILIZA:

Para expresar hábitos y rutinas, hechos generales, acciones repetidas o situaciones, emociones y deseos permanentes:
I smoke (hábito); I work in London (permanencia); London is a large city (hecho general)
Para dar instrucciones o indicaciones:
You walk for two hundred meters, then you turn left.
Para hablar de eventos programados, presentes o futuros:
Your exam starts at 09.00.
Para referirse al futuro, detrás de algunas conjunciones: after, when, before, as soon as, until:
He'll give it to you when you come next Saturday.

EJEMPLOS

Hábitos y rutinas
He drinks tea at breakfast.
She only eats fish.
They watch television regularly.
Eventos y acciones repetidos
We catch the bus every morning.
It rains every afternoon in the hot season.
They drive to Monaco every summer.
Hechos generales
Water freezes at zero degrees.
The Earth revolves around the Sun.
Her mother is Peruvian.

NOTAS SOBRE LA TERCERA PERSONA DEL SINGULAR DEL "SIMPLE PRESENT"

En la tercera persona del singular, el verbo siempre termina en -s:
he wants, she needs, he gives, she thinks.

Para las formas negativa e interrogativa, se emplea DOES (= tercera persona del auxiliar 'DO') + el infinitivo del verbo.
He wants ice cream. Does he want strawberry? He does not want vanilla.

Verbos que terminan en -y: en la tercera persona del singular, se cambia la -y por -ies:
fly --> flies, cry --> cries
Excepción: cuando una vocal precede a la -y:
play --> plays, pray --> prays
Añadimos -es a los verbos que terminan en: -ss, -x, -sh, -ch:
he passes, she catches, he fixes, it pushes

EJEMPLOS

EJERCICIOS

1. She does not accept my decisión

2. My mother never watches TV in her room.

3. Paul never does his homework

5. Doesn’t he play in Barcelona?

6. This bus leaves at night

7. Does he speak at the meeting?

8. She works in the NASA

9. Do you like our beaches?

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