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Let’s Learn English: Simple Present Tense and To be

PRESENT SIMPLE

Simple present tense adalah salah satu dari beberapa bentuk present tense dalam bahasa Inggris. Tense ini digunakan untuk mendeskripsikan kebiasaan, situasi yang tidak berubah, kebenaran umum, dan jadwal tetap. Simple present tense sangat mudah untuk dibentuk. Gunakan saja kata dasar dari kata kerja: (I take, you take, we take, they take). Bentuk orang ketiga tunggal menggunakan -s di akhir kata dasar. (he takes, she takes)

Simple present tense digunakan:

PATTERN/FORMULA & EXAMPLES
Positives/Statements/Affirmatives (S + V1(s/es) + O/C)
1. Hiroshi works for GameZ. He likes his job.
2. Lin Yao works for GameZ, too. She also likes her job.
3. Hiroshi and Lin Yao work for GameZ. They like their jobs.

Negatives (S + DON’T/DOESN’T + V1 + O/C)
1. Christine comes from Berlin, but she doesn’t live there.
2. Robert comes from Scotland, but he doesn’t live there.
3. Christine and Robert work in London, but they don’t live there.

Interogatives/Questions (DO/DOES + S + V1 + O/C?)
1. Do they work at GameZ?
2. Does she come from Berlin?
3. Do you like your job

Catatan mengenai simple present, orang ketiga tunggal

TO BE

Long formShort formNegative
I amI’mI’m not
You areYou’reYou’re not / You aren’t
They areThey’reThey’re not / They aren’t
We areWe’reWe’re not / We aren’t
He isHe’sHe’s not / He isn’t
She isShe’sShe’s not / She isn’t
It isIt’sIt’s not / It isn’t

PATTERN/FORMULA & EXAMPLES
Positives (S + AM/IS/ARE + O/C <NON VERB>)
1. Hiroshi Akimoto and Lin Yao Chen are colleagues.
2. Hiroshi is a marketing manager.
3. Lin Yao is an IT data scientist.

Negatives (S + AM/IS/ARE + NOT + O/C <NON VERB>)
1. They aren’t in the same department.
2. Robert is not a product manager.
3. She isn’t English

Interogatives/Question(AM/IS/ARE + S + O/C <NON VERB>?)
1. Are they in the same department?
2. Is he a marketing manager?
3. Are you from Indonesia?

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