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Present simple. Level: beginner. The present tense is the base form of the verb: I work in London. But with the third person singular (she / he / it), we add an –s: She works in London.
Grammar explanation. We can use the present simple to talk about things we do regularly. I go to the gym three times a week. We drink coffee at work. We can also use it for things which are generally true. She loves her job. A lot of people work at home now. Remember that we add s or es for he, she and it.
There are two tenses in English: past and present. The present tense is used to talk about the present and to talk about the future. There are four present tense forms: Present simple. I work. Present continuous. I am working. Present perfect. I have worked.
Do you know how to use the verb to be in the present simple? Test what you know with interactive exercises and read the explanation to help you.
Level: beginner. The present perfect is formed from the present tense of the verb have and the past participle of a verb. We use the present perfect: for something that started in the past and continues in the present: They've been married for nearly fifty years. She has lived in Liverpool all her life.
We use I/you/we/they + have got or he/she/it + has got to talk about things that we have. In many situations, have and have got mean the same thing. Have got is a little less formal than have. We often use have got more in speaking and have more in writing. They have got a big garden. = They have a big garden.
When we know about the future, we normally use the present tense. 1. We use the present simple for something scheduled: We have a lesson next Monday. The train arrives at 6.30 in the morning. The holidays start next week. It's my birthday tomorrow. 2. We :
Test what you know with interactive exercises and read the explanation to help you. Look at these examples to see how we use the present simple and continuous. The world is changing and it's changing rapidly. The earth revolves around the sun in approximately 365 days.
Past tense. There are two tenses in English – past and present. The past tense in English is used: to talk about the past. to talk about hypotheses (when we imagine something) for politeness. There are four past tense forms in English: Past simple: I worked.
We use both the present perfect simple (have or has + past participle) and the present perfect continuous (have or has + been + -ing form) to talk about past actions or states which are still connected to the present.
