Ex. 1. Explain the use of the Present Indefinite in the following sentences:

1. I sleep here. My father sleeps in his study.

2. In case she wants to see him, he'll come over.

3. "Your mouth is bleeding. Does it hurt?" Martha asked me.

4. Where do we go from here?

5. Please see that the children don't get nervous.

6. I do a lot of travelling, you know.

7. One lives and learns.

8. He owns a big car.

9. "It won't do any good to anyone if you get ill, I said.

10. "His men act silently as a rule. They wear dark glasses and

they call after dark, " he added.

11. You understand what we're talking about?

12. Changes happen very quickly here.

13. How quickly you leap to his defense!

14. I said, "I take things as they come.

15. His temper will not be right until we are at home again.

16. "Do you often, " I asked, "take holidays in these parts?"

17. She beat with her hand on the back of the sofa and cried to

them: "You talk too much. "

18. "It's too late to go anywhere. " "What do we do then?"

19. "Perhaps after breakfast I could ring up my family. " "The

telephone doesn't work.

20. Then the captain announced in a duty voice: "Tomorrow after-

noon we arrive by four o'clock.

21. "The news calls for champagne, " Jones said.

22. Why don't you go back home?

23. They wish to make sure that he does not alter his plans.

24. She thought he wanted to look a mystery man to her. "You

play your role fine, she said.

25. I brush my teeth every night.

26. "I give up, " she said. "You win".

27. It is a scene in which Mr Dante, in a white dinner-jacket,

arrives at the ground floor by lift. The lift door opens, Dante