Present simple 📕

We use the present simple for habits, routines, facts and things that are always true.

I work in a hospital.

She drinks tea every morning.

Water boils at 100 degrees.

Remember -s with he, she and it

✗ She work in a shop.

✓ She works in a shop.

Spelling of -s

• After s, sh, ch, x, o: add -es: watches, goes, does
• Consonant + y: change to -ies: studies, cries
• have → has

Negative: don't / doesn't + verb

I don't like coffee.

He doesn't like coffee.

✗ He doesn't likes coffee.

✓ He doesn't like coffee.

Questions: do / does + subject + verb

Do you live here?

Does she speak English?

Where do they work?

Typical time words

always, usually, often, sometimes, never, every day, on Mondays