Simple Present Tense also becomes the most applicable English tense as it will be used in your daily activities. Theoretically, Simple Present Tense is used to:
- Tell about your daily activities (regularly happened in your life)
- Reveal something happening in the present
- Tell about the facts
Positive Sentence
Positive sentence is always used to tell about your daily activities and the facts that do not have negativity aspects. Example:
- You like Dan Brown‘s Book, Inferno.
- She stays at home because she is sick today.
- John and I come to visit her.
- She says that she is okay
It can be concluded that positive sentence has the grammar rules:
- For the subject (they, we, I, you, and group of things), you do not need to add (-s) in the verb.
- For the subject (she, he, it, one person, and one thing), you must add (-s) after the verb.
- To be (is, am, are) are used when subject meets adjective, adverb and noun.
- For subject (they, we, you, and group of things), you use to be “are”.
- For Subject (she, he, it, one person, and one thing), you use to be “is”.
- For subject (I), you used to be “am”.
Negative Sentence
Negative Sentence is always used to tell the negativity of facts or activities you do everyday. Example:
- I don’t (do not) agree with you
- She doesn’t (does not) walk with anybody
- Rendy and Firla don’t (do not) like each other
- Looking at her behavior, She is not that good actually
From the example, it can be concluded that negative sentence has the grammar rules:
- For the subject (they, we, I, you, and group of things), you use “do not or don’t”.
- For the subject (she, he, it, one person, and one thing), you use “doesn’t or does not”.
- When there is do or does in a sentence, you do not need to add (-s) in the verb
- For subject (they, we, you, and group of things), you use to be “are not or aren’t”.
- For Subject (she, he, it, one person, and one thing), you use to be “is not or isn’t”.
- For subject (I), you used to be “am not”.
Interrogative Sentence
Interrogative sentence is always used to express the question about something. Example:
- Does she agree with us?
- Do you think we are wise enough?
- Is she sick today?
- Are they absent today?
From the examples, it can be concluded that interrogative sentence has the grammar rules:
- Put “does” or “do” in the beginning of the sentence, followed by subject and verb
- Does for she, he, it, one person, and one thing
- Do for they, we, I, you, and group of things
- If you use “to be”, “to be” in the beginning of sentence, followed by subject and (noun, adjective, or adverb)
- To use question words (how, who, what, etc), just put the question words in the beginning of sentence before “do” or “does”. Example: How does he make the beautiful words?