TIEMPO PRESENTE SIMPLE

SIMPLE PRESENT

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.

¡Cuidado! El "simple present" no se utiliza para hablar de lo que está ocurriendo en este momento.

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.

Instrucciones o indicaciones

• Open the packet and pour the contents into hot water.
• You take the No.6 bus to Watney and then the No.10 to Bedford.
• Eventos programados
• His mother arrives tomorrow.
• Our holiday starts on the 26th March
• Construcciones de futuro
• She'll see you before she leaves.
• We'll give it to her when she arrives.

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

• He goes to school every morning.
• She understands English.
• It mixes the sand and the water.
• He tries very hard.
• She enjoys playing the piano.

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