PRESENT SIMPLE TENSE Part 2 - Making Sentences (Form) - Basic English Grammar

In this lesson, you will learn how to make sentences in the present simple tense. Also see - MOST COMMON MISTAKES IN ENGLISH & HOW TO AVOID THEM: /watch/9FlbQ7aFUFjhEps9Dr53RswHMlop9rwmLP=tsil&IgXyQ09xaD1xb ★★★ Also check out ★★★ ➜ PRESENT SIMPLE TENSE Part 1: /watch/wJibszS_ghZVtC706WZNRswHMlop9rwmLP=tsil&1=xedni&0CKRqXH1rWb1b ➜ ALL TENSES Playlist: /playlist/PLmwr9polMHwsRNZW607CtVZhg_SzsbiJw ➜ PARTS OF SPEECH Playlist: /playlist/PLmwr9polMHwsQmAjoAxtFvwk_PaqQeS68 ➜ ALL GRAMMAR LESSONS: /playlist/PLmwr9polMHwsR35rD9spEhjFUFa7QblF9 ➜ VERBS: /watch/86SeQqaP_kwvFtxAojAmQswHMlop9rwmLP=tsil&2=xedni&cEFuu0bKicLKe ➜ NOUNS: /watch/86SeQqaP_kwvFtxAojAmQswHMlop9rwmLP=tsil&3=xedni&oPODaxpYBs8Ye ➜ PRONOUNS: /watch/86SeQqaP_kwvFtxAojAmQswHMlop9rwmLP=tsil&4=xedni&AhoV4BJArCZAe ➜ ADJECTIVES: /watch/86SeQqaP_kwvFtxAojAmQswHMlop9rwmLP=tsil&5=xedni&0fcYR6VemnSee ➜ ADVERBS: /watch/86SeQqaP_kwvFtxAojAmQswHMlop9rwmLP=tsil&6=xedni&YU4ijG62LKd2e For more FREE English lessons, SUBSCRIBE to this channel. Transcript: Hi. This lesson is all about making sentences in the present simple tense. I’ll show you how to make correct sentences and avoid mistakes in grammar and spelling. So let’s begin. Welcome back to my series of lessons on the tenses. This is part two of the present simple tense. As always, if you have any questions at all, just let me know in the comments section below, and I will talk to you there. Alright, in this lesson, we will first learn how to make positive (or affirmative) sentences in the present simple tense. I will teach you when to add –s to a verb such as ‘He works’, ‘She wishes’ etc. You will also learn the spelling rules for adding –s to a verb. Then we’ll look at how to make negative sentences, and finally we will discuss the special case of the verb ‘be’. There are exercises throughout this lesson, and there’s a final quiz at the end. OK, so how do you make a sentence in the present simple? I’m sure you know the answer – you just take a subject (like I, you, we, they, he, she, it etc.) and you add a verb. For example, “I work.” And you can add any other information to the sentence, like “I work as a teacher.” You can do this with other verbs too – “I play chess once a week.” “I eat two eggs for breakfast every day.” “I love my family.” These are all present simple tense sentences, and if you remember from the previous lesson, the first sentence is a permanent situation, the second and third talk about things I do regularly (habits or routines), and the last sentence is a state using the state verb ‘love’. These are the main uses of the present simple tense. Now, of course, it’s easy to make these sentences with ‘I’ as the subject. What about other subjects? Well, let’s take the verb ‘work’ and try out some other subjects. You – work. We – work. They – work. What about ‘Those men’? Those men work. ‘My friends’? Work. These subjects are just like ‘I’. But what happens when we have ‘He’ as the subject? He works. She works. It works. That man - works. Suzie? Works. So you can see here that if the subject is ‘I’, ‘You’, ‘We’, ‘They’ or any plural noun such as ‘Those men’ or ‘My friends’ then you use the verb in the base form without –s. But if the subject is ‘He’, ‘She’, ‘It’ or any singular noun like ‘That man’ or ‘Suzie’ or any other name, then you take the base form of the verb and you add –s. It’s important to know that this –s is only used in the present tense. It’s not used in the past or future – only the present. OK, let’s now do a small exercise with this. There are nine sentences on the screen. I want you to choose the correct form of the verb in each sentence. Pause the video now if you want – think about your answers, then play the video again and check. Alright, let’s look at the answers. Number one – “He reads a lot of books.” Number two – “Many children play baseball.” Number three – “You like tomato soup.” Number four – “That bird flies fast.” Number five – “I teach English.” Number six – “We live together.” Number seven – “She goes to college.” Number eight – “It works just fine.” Number nine – “They cook very well.” Did you get them all right? OK, I want you to notice something here. We’ve added –s to some verbs. But to the verb ‘go’, we didn’t just add –s, we added ‘es’. And to ‘fly’, we took out the ‘y’ and added ‘-ies’. Why did we do that? Well, it’s because there are some important spelling rules for adding –s to a verb. Let’s talk about those now. To most verbs, we just add ‘s’. So verbs like ‘love’, ‘run’, ‘work’, ‘speak’, ‘want’ etc. just take an –s at the end. To some verbs we add ‘es’ – verbs like ‘pass’, ‘wish’, ‘search’, ‘fix’, ‘go’ and ‘do’. But why is that? Can you guess the rule?

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