The examples:

(1) Simple present tense to describe facts and habits.

• Alan walks the dog every morning.

• He plays chess.

(2) Simple present tense to describe scheduled events in the future.

• The train arrives at 5 o'clock.

• The plane lands in 5 minutes.

(3) Simple present tense to tell stories (particularly jokes).

• Sarah crosses the road and asks the policeman for directions.

• A horse walks into a bar, and the barman says, "why the long face?"

  (Compare to: A horse walked into a bar, and the barman said, "why the long face?")

Base form or Base form + s

Example

First person = I run

Second person =You run

Third person =He/She/It runs

First person =We run

Second person =You run

Third person = They run

Negative forms:

To create a negative sentence, use "do not" + [base form of the verb]. (Use "does not" with third person singular (he / she / it).)

• I do not like chocolate.

• Angela does not run a youth club full of glue-sniffers.

• I do not ride horses in the summer.

• It does not always snow here in January.

• Dawn does not play chess in the evenings.

In speech and writing (especially informal writing), "do not" is often shortened to "don't," and "does not" is often shortened to "doesn't."

Question forms:

If you need to ask a question, you can use the following word order for a yes/no question:

• Do you like chocolate?

• Does Angela run the youth club?

• Why does Tony talk so quickly?

• When do the farmers plant the corn?

• talk > talks

• improve > improves

For verbs that end in s, ss, sh, ch, x and o, add es:

• guess > guesses

• mash > mashes

• fix > fixes

• go > goes

For verbs ending [consonant]-y, change the y to i and add es:

• fly > flies

• study > studies

The simple past tense can be used to,

• Refer to an action or event that happened in the past

• Speak about something that was true for some time in the past

• Explain something that happened more than once in the past

  
  

The simple past is formed using the verb + ed. In addition, there are many verbs with irregular past forms. Questions are made with did and negative forms are made with did not.

• Statement: You called Debbie.

• Question: Did you call Debbie?

• Negative: You did not call Debbie.

  Completed Action in the Past:

  
  

The simple future tense is used to describe actions that will happen in the future. It helps people talk about plans, predictions, and other future events.

Example: I say ''I will go to supermarket tomorrow.''

(indicates a plan to visit the store at a later time.)

We may use will, going to and shall:

• Will

  We use will to talk about spontaneous plans decided at the moment of speaking.

• Going to

  We use going to to talk about plans decided before the moment of speaking.

• Shall = will

  Shall commonly use in British. American rarely to use it