The Present Tenses These are the four present tenses in English and how they are used in a sentence
Present simple
Eg I play basketball
Present continuous
Eg. I am playing basketball
Present perfect
Eg. I have played basketball
Present perfect continuous
Eg. I have been playing basketball
1.Present Simple
The present simple is usually the first tense English students learn You can use it to talk about yourself and other people
- as well as things that occur habitually in the present
Form
In the present simple, the base form of the verb is the same for every subject pronoun, except the third person, where you
add an 's to the end of the verb
Let's take a look at the verb "eat"
Positive sentences
Negative sentences
Questions
Teat
I don't eat
Where do I eat?
You eat
You don't eat
Where do you eat?
He/Shellt eats
He/Sherit doesn't eat
Where does he/she/it
eat?
We eat
We don't eat
Where do we eat
They eat
They don't eat
Where do they eat?
You (plural) eat
You don't eat
Where do you eat?
