English A2 · Present simple
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You met the present simple in A1: I walk, she walks, does he like cats. This topic is the same tense with the lights turned up, three new rooms in a house you already own. Habits and facts you know; timetables and stative verbs are new. And the ego letter has not retired: he, she and it still take the s, every single time.
One minute of review. Statements: I work, she works. Negatives: I don't work, she doesn't work. Questions: do you work, does she work. After the helper, the verb returns to base form, because does ate the s back in A1, and it still eats well. The spelling dances return: watches, studies, goes, and the rebel has. Adverbs sit before the main verb and after be: I often walk; he is often late.
Three jobs for one tense. Habits: I play football on Sundays. Facts: water boils at one hundred degrees; pandas eat bamboo. And the surprise: timetables. The train leaves at nine. A printed schedule is a future event, but it is official and unchangeable by you, so English treats it as a fact. Your personal plans cannot use this tense, because your plans are not a railway, however much your alarm clock disagrees.
Pause and choose. The train leaves at nine tomorrow: a printed schedule, official, unchangeable. I leave for Beijing tomorrow is a personal plan and needs going to or the present continuous. The pizza is a hope, and the homework finishing itself is a fantasy that belongs to no tense at all.
Some verbs describe states, not actions: know, believe, understand, like, love, hate, want, need, prefer, mean. They answer what is true, not what is happening, and they refuse the ing form. I am knowing is impossible; knowledge is not a sport, and you cannot do it in the continuous. Yes, a famous restaurant says I'm lovin' it. Advertising breaks grammar for money; your exam does not pay you, so keep the rule.
Some verbs change meaning when they move. I think it's a good idea is an opinion, a state, so the verb stays still. I'm thinking about the weekend is a brain at work, an action, so the verb moves into the continuous. Same verb, two costumes, and the meaning decides which one it wears. When a verb suddenly allows the ing, ask what it means now; the meaning is always the boss.
Pause and choose. I know the answer. Know is stative, so the present simple with no ing. The other three bolt the continuous onto a verb that refuses to move, in three different ways, which shows creativity if not correctness.
The traps revisited, wearing new clothes. He like cats still needs the ego letter: he likes. I am understanding still breaks the stative rule: I understand. I leave for Beijing tomorrow is a plan dressed as a timetable, and plans are not trains. And does she likes double-marks the s, one per sentence, already eaten. Old traps, new clothes, same fixes. By now your mouth should file the paperwork automatically.
Describe your week twice, first as a timetable, then as a person. The school bus leaves at seven twenty; I leave my bed at seven nineteen, and both are fixed by nature. Then the statives: I always eat breakfast; I usually understand maths; I never understand my little brother. I like music, I love weekends, I want a longer holiday, and I believe the weekend is too short. All statives, all true, all present simple.
Pause for four checks. The film starts at eight: a printed schedule reports the future. I don't understand the question: statives take no ing. She watches TV on Fridays: third person, ch dance. And water boils at one hundred degrees: eternal truths take the present simple. Next topic: the present continuous, the tense of right now.