?Hi, everyone. Welcome to my channel, ESL Speech Connect. So today, we'll be continuing in our 12 Verb Tense series, and we'll be talking about the Simple Present Tense. Now, the Simple Present Tense expresses an action or state of being that exists in the present time. Also, we say that it has, existed a little bit in the past, present, and future.
And a common way that you see this expressed is with habitual actions and routines. Also, in unchanging situations, experiences situations that do not change, they exist all the time. Also General truths and factual information. Also with directions and instructions. And something that's just normal and regular, which is closely related to routines.
But we're going to look at each one of these here in just a few minutes. But before we do that, we're going to look at the structure of the simple present. So the simple present structure is just the simple verb tense. For example, go, sing. run work, live, and if you're using the verbs of be, it's am, is, are.
And those usually express a state of being. For example, I am happy. I am hungry. He is smart. She is nice. We need to remember our verb conjugation. Let's go ahead and review some of those. We have I, you, he, she, it, we, you, and they. With I I sing, I go, I work, I live. You in the singular, and as well as the plural form, would still be you sing, you go, you work.
All right. He, she, it. We say he or she sings, he, she, it goes, he, she, it lives, or works. Okay, we add that S. Third person singular. You could use a person's name. Mary sings. John goes to school. Then we have we sing, we go, we work. You, we said you already plural. Same thing. You sing, you go. They sing, they go, they work.
Now, one thing to remember, if we use does or does not, Things change a little bit. For example, if we have He understands, or he understands the work. What if you say, does. He does understand the work. Or, he doesn't understand the work. Okay, notice that the word understand loses the S. Okay, we don't say he doesn't understands.
So just keep that in mind with, does is unusual that way. Okay, it takes away the S in the verb. So now let's talk about some ways that we can use the simple present. We mentioned before about habitual actions and routines. So an example of that would be Maria jogs every morning.
Maria jogs, this is something that she does. Every morning, so it is a routine. So we say jogs. I drink coffee before work. Okay, even if I don't say every day, mostly we can assume that before I go to work, I drink coffee. So drink is in the simple present. We stay up too late. Okay, this is a habit.
We say good habits and bad habits, okay? We stay up too late. John drives too fast. That could be considered a habit. She bites her nails. I clean my house every Friday. These are routines and habits. Now, what about unchanging situations? Something that, situations that just exists and it has always existed or it's not changing in the present time.
All right, that could be, I work downtown. Okay, I might not be at work at this moment, but in general, I work downtown I live in Miami, I love horses. All of these things exist now. They existed in the past, they exist presently, it will probably exist into the future. Another way is through general truths and factual information.
The sun rises in the east, a magnet attracts iron. Water freezes at zero degrees. So you notice a lot of these involve science. So, there's a lot of general truths there and facts. Another way is directions and instructions. Don't bite your nails. Don't drive too fast. Take the next exit. I'm telling somebody to do something or not to do something.
Or maybe I'm giving some instructions and I am using the verbs in the simple present. One example of something that is normal or regular would be, My team wins a lot. Okay, and maybe I don't really have a routine here. Maybe there's not a set routine or a habit. But, we're not actually playing a game at this moment.
We're just talking, about, in general, my team wins a lot. Compare that to the present progressive. My team is winning. Okay, that would mean we are playing the game right now, currently, presently, and we are winning. But to say My team wins a lot. We're not playing right now, currently.
It's just in general. We've won in the past many times. We'll probably win in the future, too. In general, this is how we are. We win a lot as a team that presently exists. Hopefully that makes sense. Now, I don't want to complicate things too much, but as in English, we have some exceptions, or we have situations that don't always follow the rules.
Imagine that. I'm going to give you a couple examples here of how the simple present is used for something, for an event that, already happened, or an event that is in the future. Alright, one example. My plane leaves tomorrow at 11 o'clock. Okay, instead of saying my plane will leave, or my plane is leaving, you might hear that too.
But you will hear, my plane leaves tomorrow. Now, an example for the past. Tom says you bought a new car. Bought a new car. Okay, that's from the past. But here, in the main verb, Tom says. Okay, this is like somebody makes a claim, or they say, this happened. Okay, but there's a, he says, this happened. So once again in English, these are always little differences.
that don't necessarily follow all the rules. So these are a couple examples. Just keep those in mind because you might hear them from time to time and they are somewhat common. Happy learning everyone.
