Easy Simple Present Tense for beginners, starters and intermediate students.

THE SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE

In our English grammar lessons, firstly I am gonna tell you briefly the grammar structure with timeline, then usage of that tense and forms of related tense, after that we will show time expressions or frequency adverbs of the grammar tense. Finally i will give you some examples about grammar tense every lessons.

Today our grammar tense is a "simple" one :) We will talk about simple present tense. It is all about general ideas, scientific facts and habit.

TIME LINE

Past                                 Present                           Future  
 (Now)

1- USAGE OF SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE

 The simple present tense expresses;

-  daily habits                   -->  Martin takes a shower every day.

-  usual activities                 -->  I usually eat lunch at home.

-  general statements of facts       -->   The earth revolves around the sun.

-  event or situations that exist always, usually or habitually.   

2- FORMS OF SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE

A) Positive Sentence

I-You-We-They   +   Work

He-She-It       +   Works

B) Negative Sentence

I-You-We-They  +  do  +  not  +  work.

He-She-It   +  does  +  not  +  work.

C) Question Sentence

Do  +  I-You-We-They  +  work ?

Does  +  He-She-It  +  work ?

3- FREQUENCY ADVERBS WITH SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE

Always            100  (Probability)

Usually

Often

Sometimes

Seldom

Rarely

Never             0   (Probability)

Overcome English Grammar Problem

First of all, i must say that English grammar should not be a nightmare for any English learning students! Please please try to like it, at least persuade yourself to like it :) Be sure that you will learn it in progress of time. Second of all, please do not forget that you will never understand something which you don't like. So liking English grammar is very crucial for you ;)

If you dont love and you are forcing yourself to just study it. You could suppose that you understand it but after a while you will realize that you did just memorize it. So first condition of learning grammar is all about love :) You have to love it if you want to learn it :)

Don't study it just from boring grammar books! 

The most common mistake that English learners have done is studying it from just grammar books. In fact the most useful method in learning English grammar is watching enjoyable and fun films or youte videos which you are interested in. This makes your learning journey easier and funnier.

As i have mentioned before, I have been learning English for about 10 years and the most important thing i have ever learnt in this process is that the best way of learning English grammar is the organic and natural way.

What are the natural and organic ways of learning English Grammar?

I can say briefly that the shortest and easiest way of learning English grammar is reading English stories and books. For example as a ten years English learning student i could say that i have learnt English grammar by  reading a lot of short stories and books in English. I have read Edgar Allan Poe's and Sherlock Holmes detective stories(of course levelled books like penguin books), historical books(specifically world wars books) and loads of easy/understandable books in accordance with my English level of course.

Whenever you find a leisure time you have to read English books which you are interested in and whose topics and subject you like. It could be art, maths, science-fiction or whatever it is not important.

To sum up there are 2 magical things in learning English grammar and overcome English grammar problem:

1- Before you start to study it, you have to prepare yourself mentally(like it and love it!)
2- You should read English books(of course lovedones) whenever you have opportunity.
If you have and advices or ideas about learning English grammar and overcome Englishg grammar problem, please make some comments and share with us below :)

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