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SIMPLE TENSES (PRESENT, PAST AND FUTURE

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THE SIMPLE PRESENT OR PRESENT SIMPLE IS ONE OF

THE VERB FORMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PRESENT

TENSE IN MODERN ENGLISH. IT IS COMMONLY REFERRED

TO AS A TENSE, ALTHOUGH IT ALSO ENCODES CERTAIN

INFORMATION ABOUT ASPECT IN ADDITION TO PRESENT

TIME.

Present simple

EXAMPLE SIMPLE PRESENT

AFIRMATIVE AND

INTERROGATIVE Affirmative Sentences

Sujeto + verbo.

EXAMPLES SIMPLE PRESENT IN NEGATIVE

Sujeto + verbo auxiliar (to do)- DOES + auxiliar negativo (“not”) + verbo

1) I do not [don’t] talk. (Yo no hablo.)

2 )He does not [doesn’t] eat. (Él no come.)

SIMPLE PAST

The simple past is used to talk about a completed action in a time before now. Duration is not important. The time of the action can be in the recent

past or the distant past.

the Present Continuous with Normal Verbs to express the idea that something is happening now, at this very moment. It can also be used to show that something is not happening now.

PAST CONTINUOUS TO INDICATE THAT A LONGER ACTION IN THE PAST WAS

INTERRUPTED. THE INTERRUPTION IS USUALLY A SHORTER ACTION IN THE SIMPLE

PAST. REMEMBER THIS CAN BE A REAL INTERRUPTION OR JUST AN INTERRUPTION

IN TIME