English A1 · Present simple
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The present simple is the tense of things that are always true: habits, routines and facts. I walk to school. The sun rises in the east. My cat sleeps twenty hours a day, and dreams of a twenty-first. Chinese verbs never change for any person, so almost all of this topic is calm. The exception is one loud little letter: he, she and it add s to the verb. The smallest letter with the biggest ego, and it appears every single time.
The forms are calm: I walk, you walk, we walk, they walk. Only he, she and it take the s: she likes cats. Ta xihuan mao. One letter, and a thousand lost exam marks every year. The spelling dances from plural nouns return: watch becomes watches, study becomes studies, play becomes plays. And have breaks the pattern completely and becomes has, because the most common verb wrote its own rules.
Pause and choose. She studies English every day. Third person, so the s-family applies, and consonant plus y dances to i e s: studies. Studys skipped the dance, and studyies danced twice, which at a school event is technically impressive but still wrong.
The present simple cannot flip like be, so it hires a helper: do, and does for he, she and it. Negatives: I don't like tea, he doesn't like tea. Questions: do you like tea, does he like tea. Short answers use the helper too: yes, I do; no, I don't. Never yes, I like; the main verb stays home from the short answer, because the helper is on duty.
Here is the whole machinery in one meal. Statement: she likes cats. Question: does she like cats. The helper does arrives and eats the s, and the main verb relaxes back to base form. One s per sentence, and does already ate it, so does she likes is a double mark, and the sentence is full. The negative works the same way: he doesn't like tea.
Pause and choose. Does she like cats? Does plus base form. Option one double-marks the s. Option three sent do to do a third-person job, which is does's territory. Option four asked be to help a lexical verb, and be only helps itself; that is a boundary from topic one that never moves.
How often? Climb the ladder: always, usually, often, sometimes, never. The adverb sits before the main verb: I always walk to school; they never do homework on Friday, allegedly. But with be, the adverb follows: he is always late. And never is already negative, so don't never is two walls making a door again. One negative per sentence; the grammar budget is strict.
Pause and choose. He is always late. With be, the adverb follows the verb. Option one put the adverb in lexical-verb position, where be does not live. Option three exiled always to the end, where it arrives late to its own sentence. Option four has two negatives and no verb at all; it gave up in two directions at once.
This is the most common error in Chinese students' English, and it is one letter. Ta mei tian zoulu qu shangxue feels complete, and learners write he walk to school. The Chinese verb never changes, so the English s feels like decoration. It is not decoration; it is the verb's paperwork. He walks. Say the s out loud until your mouth files the paperwork automatically.
Pause and choose. Are you happy? Be flips alone, as it has since topic one. Do serves the lexical verbs, the likes and walks of the world, and the two machines never share a toolbox. Do you are happy mixes them, and option four is word salad with a question mark.
Describe your real routine aloud; boring is fine, because boring is grammar gold. I wake up at seven. I never wake up happy. My father cooks dinner; my mother says he cooks, and science has not confirmed this. Then ask a partner: does your best friend like cats? Yes, they do; everyone sensible does. Finish with one true fact about your city using always or never.
Pause for four checks. She watches TV at night: third person, and the ch ending dances to e s. Does he like cats: does eats the s and the main verb relaxes. They don't eat fish: helper plus not plus base form. And he is always late: be takes no helper, and the adverb follows it. Next topic: can, the little verb of ability and permission.